A seminal text for all practitioners who need to access documentation held by the EU.

All litigants before the General Court of the EU (GC), the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) or indeed before any EU body or agency will need to have full access to the documents held by the European Union. Though the legislation regulating the field, Regulation 1049/2001, has been in force for some time, it is a complex field for all would-be litigants. In this book the authors, both experienced practitioners in the area, clearly set out the documentation, access requirements and processes. They include a helpful glossary of terms, tables and appendices setting out the relevant legislation. This will be the seminal text for all practitioners who need to access documentation held by the EU.

"The present work provides a tremendous contribution ... that covers an impressive amount of ground... a useful source for scholars beyond the legal discipline." - Journal of Common Market Studies

"Leonor Rossi and Patricia Vinagre e Silva’s book is a fresh and very thorough and well thought out analysis of the topic. It represents an excellent and the most updated work on the law and practice of access to documents of EU institutions." - The European Commercial Law Observatory

"...this book will be a godsend for everyone among us who, for one reason or another, needs to have access to documents from the European institutions." - Bulletin Quotidien Europe

"[T]he book is very beneficial for tracing the main elements of access to documents legal regime, including the rights, exceptions and remedies." - Common Market Law Review