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Limits to calling upon intellectual property to justify non-disclosure of...
The ECJ yesterday morning held in an important case with respect to the EU’s transparency regime. Regulation 1049/2001 constitutes the general regime on access to documents held by EU Institutions....
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‘Public administrative functions’– CRUZ VILLALÓN AG gives an EU definition in...
Postscript the ECJ held in December 2013. The referring court held on substance in February 2015 (the water companies are public authorities because they have ‘special powers’). In Case C-279/12 Fish...
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RERA: a weee chance of US Basel ratification?
Many thanks to Gideon Kracov for pointing this out to me: the proposed Responsible Electronics Recycling Act (a private member’s Bill) would install an EU-type regime on the export of electric and...
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On ‘reasonable amounts’, Aarhus, and the price of environmental information....
In East Sussex County Council Case C-71/14, the question under consideration is the application of Directive 2003/4 ‘s reasonableness test. Article 5 of the Directive provides that in situ access to...
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Information law: when something is “on” an environmental measure
Aarhus, Access to Environmental Information Directive. Review of Henney [2017] EWCA Civ 844 . UK Human Rights Blog Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy v. Information Commissioner...
View ArticleSome data crunching on manufactured nanomaterials.
A short post on manufactured nanomaterials and data. (Readers will be aware that although the blog focuses mostly on litigation, I dabble in regulatory research and practice, too. And that...
View ArticleAccess to information: The Court of Justice acts to prevent water under the...
Access to information ironically is subject to a myriad of rules and regulations at the EU level: some of a general nature (particularly: Regulation 1049/2001), some lex specialis (such as Directive...
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