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Malaysia Airlines flight MH17: EU Judgment in Case C-451/22 RTL Nederland et RTL Nieuws

18 January

Thursday 18th January 2024

Judgment in Case C-451/22 RTL Nederland et RTL Nieuws

(Fundamental rights)

On 17 July 2014, 298 people lost their lives when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) crashed near Hrabove, a village in eastern Ukraine.

RTL Nederland BV and RTL Nieuws BV (‘RTL’), two Dutch media outlets, requested information from the Dutch Government to find out what it knew about the safety of Ukrainian airspace prior to the disaster, including all reports by the ‘European Coordination Centre for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems’ (‘Eccairs’) relating to Ukraine for 2014.

The minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat (Minister for Infrastructure and Water Management, ‘the Minister’) decided that national law and Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 on the reporting, analysis and follow-up of occurrences in civil aviation prohibited disclosure of that information.

In its request for a preliminary ruling, the Dutch referring court, Raad van State (Netherlands), asked the Court of Justice about the extent to which a news organisation can receive information from a database covered by Regulation No 376/2014 and, if so, in what form.

The referring court doubts whether the absolute prohibition on the disclosure of such information laid down in national law is compatible with Article 15 of the aforementioned Regulation and with the right to freedom of expression and information enshrined in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and in Article 10 of the  European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

In his opinion delivered on 15 June 2023, Advocate General Collins proposed to the Court to reply stating that all information received pursuant to Regulation No 376/2014 is confidential insofar as none of it may be disclosed, upon request, to a member of the public or a media undertaking. Additionally, Regulation No 376/2014 does not preclude national legislation to that effect.

The Court will now decide.

Background Documents C-451/22

 


Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2024

Urteil des Gerichtshofs in der Rechtssache C-451/22 RTL Nederland und RTL Niews

Auskunft über Umstände des Abschusses von Flug MH17

Das niederländische Medienunternehmen RTL möchte wissen, was die niederländische Regierung über den Abschuss des Malaysia Airlines-Flugs MH17 wusste, der am 17. Juli 2014 über dem Osten der Ukraine geschah. RTL beantragte daher beim niederländischen Minister für Justiz und Sicherheit Zugang zu verschiedenen Unterlagen, darunter Meldungen des Europäisches Koordinierungszentrum für Berichtssysteme für Unfälle und Störungen (European Coordination Centre for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems, kurz ECCAIRS).

Der Minister lehnte den Antrag ab, da seiner Ansicht nach die in ECCAIRS gespeicherten Informationen gemäß der Verordnung Nr. 376/2014 über die Meldung, Analyse und Weiterverfolgung von Ereignissen in der Zivilluftfahrt nur bestimmten Personen und Organisationen zur Verfügung gestellt werden dürften, etwa aus der Luftfahrtbranche, oder solchen, die   die Flugsicherheit untersuchten. RTL gehöre nicht dazu.

Der von RTL angerufene niederländische Staatsrat hat den Gerichtshof hierzu befragt.

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18 January
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