Luxembourg, 27/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - Rhiannon Williams a doctoral fellow is taking the European Commission to the Court of First Instance because it is refusing access to documents that preceded the adoption of recent legislation on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Rhiannon Williams is carrying out a project on the impact of globalisation on Community environment and development cooperation law and policy. On the basis of the 2001 regulation on public access to documents from the European institutions she sought a number of documents but some of which were refused her. Rhiannon Williams believes that the Commission has committed a mistake when it said that no overriding public interest in disclosure of the documents and when it asserted that the documents in question would weaken the Commission's position before the WTO panel on the de facto moratorium on the approval of marketing of biotech products.