Impact assessments and impact assessment reports must come under wider public access in line with the regulation (1049/2001) on access to the documents of the European institutions. Consequently, such documents are not covered by a general presumption of confidentiality, it is stated in the conclusions of Advocate General Yves Bot, delivered on Tuesday 4 September (Case C-57/16).
Supported by Finland and Sweden, the environmental defence organisation ClientEarth calls on the Court of...