14/06/2023 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 14 June, the General Court of the European Union annulled Decision C(2021)2541 by which the European Commission had refused Member States access to their votes in a comitology procedure during the revision of Regulation (EC) No. 1925/2006 concerning plant species containing hydroxyanthracene derivatives (Case T-201/21). According to the General Court, the Commission could not base its refusal on the exception to Regulation (EC) No. 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents of the EU institutions, insofar as comitology procedures do not require access to documents setting out the individual positions of Member States to be refused in order to protect the decision-making process within a European committee, in this case the Scopaff Committee. See the General Court’s judgment: https://aeur.eu/f/7ho (MB)