Sea Handling v Commission: ECJ 14 Jul 2016

ECJ (Judgment) Appeals – Right of public access to documents of the institutions of the European Union – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Article 4, paragraph 2, third indent – Exceptions to the right of access to documents – incorrect interpretation – obligation to state reasons – Documents relating to a State aid control procedure – Protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits – General Presumption of application of the exception to the right of access to all documents in the administrative file – Scope of presumption of confidentiality – access request to the complaint at the origin of an investigation – Refusal of access – Overriding public interest

ECLI:EU:C:2016:557, [2016] EUECJ C-271/15
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Updated: 19 January 2022; Ref: scu.566907