7.6.2008

Official Journal of the European Union

C 142/25

(Case T-236/06)

(Action for annulment - Access to documents - Regional parliament - Lack of capacity to be a party to legal proceedings - Inadmissibility)

(2008/C 142/45)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Landtag Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) (represented by: S. Laskowski and J. Caspar)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: P. Costa de Oliveira and C. Ladenburger)

Re:

Application for the annulment of the Commission decisions of 10 March and 23 June 2006 refusing to grant the applicant access to document SEK(2005) 420 of 22 March 2005, containing a legal analysis of a draft framework decision, under discussion in the Council, on the retention of data processed and stored in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or data on public communications networks for the purpose of prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of crime and criminal offences including terrorism.

Operative part of the order

1.The action is dismissed as inadmissible;

2.It is not necessary to rule on the applications to intervene;

3.Landtag Schleswig-Holstein shall bear its own costs and pay the Commission's costs, except those relating to the applications to intervene;

4.Landtag Schleswig-Holstein, the Commission, the Republic of Finland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland shall bear their own costs in relation to the applications to intervene.

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(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 261, 28.10.2006.