Fish Legal v Information Comr

Subject Matter

EUROPEAN UNION — Information — Public access to environmental information — Applicants’ requests for environmental information from private water companies refused — Water companies supervised by public authorities — Whether companies themselves constituting “public authorities” — Whether performing “public administrative functions” — Whether providing public environmental services under control of other public authorities — Extent of disclosure obligations of different categories of public authority — Environmental Information Regulations 2004, reg 2(2) — Parliament and Council Directive 2003/4/EC, art 2(2)

(Case C-279/12); [2014] QB 521; [2014] 2 WLR 568