#62025CJ0396Court ruling on access requests for EU food additive and enzyme documents
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The judgment limits when an EU document-access dispute can be taken to court. The Court upheld that a request involving a very large number of Commission documents on food additives and food enzymes could not be challenged before the access process had produced a final refusal.
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Key Changes
- Confirms that a premature confirmatory application does not create a challengeable EU act
- Allows EU institutions to seek a fair solution when a document request is very broad
- Reinforces procedural limits for court challenges under EU public document access rules
Obligations
What this law requires
For an access-to-documents application concerning a very long document or a very large number of documents, the EU institution may confer informally with the applicant to seek a fair solution under Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
An EU institution receiving an initial application for access to documents must send an acknowledgement of receipt and handle the application promptly under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
An EU institution must either grant access to the requested document or issue the relevant response within 15 working days from registration of an access-to-documents application under Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
The judgment indicates that an access-to-documents dispute involving a very large number of Commission documents is not challengeable before the access procedure has produced a final refusal or other challengeable act.