COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Transparency

Documents used in ongoing legislative negotiations between EU institutions should theoretically be public, says General Court

Brussels, 22/03/2018 (Agence Europe)

In theory, the European Parliament should provide access to documents on the (trialogue) negotiating sessions underway between the EU institutions, as long as this access does not negatively affect the decision-making process in question, the General Court of the EU (EGC) ruled in a judgment returned on Thursday 22 March (case T-540/15).

In July 2015, a former European Parliament official, Mr Emilio De Capitani, requested and was partly granted access to a document (a table with four...