I 2023 68 — Appeal on Access to Administrative Documents and Commercial Secrets

The appeal concerned a decision by a lower court regarding an application for judicial review following the rejection of a request for access to administrative documents by a public authority. The appellant sought access to documents related to the evaluation of a public tender, but the authority only provided partial access, citing the need to protect commercial secrets of bidders and the authority's internal decision-making process. The court reasoned that while the protection of commercial secrets and the integrity of ongoing or future administrative decision-making processes are legitimate grounds for limiting access, the lower court had not sufficiently assessed the specific nature and extent of the documents requested and the actual risk to these interests, necessitating a remand for a more detailed balancing of the public interest in transparency against the interests in secrecy.