17/03/2025 (Agence Europe) – The European Ombudsman has reacted after the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) repeatedly refused to give the public full access to a document relating to the export of pesticide-treated seeds from Denmark. On Thursday 13 March, the new Ombudsman, Teresa Anjinho, asked ECHA to provide her with the document in question by 20 March, and requested that a meeting be organised between her team and ECHA. The European Ombudsman intends to check whether the disclosure of this information could harm the commercial interests of the company concerned, as ECHA has argued. The complainant, on the other hand, took the view that there was an overriding public interest in this case. (FS)