COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) transparency

Disclosure of competition documents may cause harm

Brussels, 12/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - The General Court of the EU decided on Tuesday 12 May that documents exchanged between the Commission and a national competition authority in proceedings concerning an infringement of the competition rules should not, in principle, be accessible to the public (case T-623/13).

The Spanish professional association of traders in steel products, UHAE, had challenged the Commission's refusal to allow it access to all the Spanish competition authority (CNC)...