European Ombudsman

This table contains inquiries by the European Ombudsman concerning ECHA, both related to complaints as well as own-initiative inquiries, which have a broader scope. It shows only closed cases and does not include individual cases related to specific recruitment and selection procedures.

The relevant cases have been classified into four categories:

Access to documents and dissemination: cases related to requests for access to documents and the dissemination of information;
Administration: cases related to administrative matters;
Animal testing: cases related to the avoidance of animal testing;
ECHA’s scientific decisions: cases relating scientific decisions;
Own-initiative inquiries: cases related to own-initiative inquiries by the European Ombudsman.
Procedures: cases related to procedural matters.

Case number	Parties	Keywords	Main Legal Provisions	Date of the decision
2186/2012/FOR	British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) v ECHA	Request for public access to documents	Art. 23 ECGAB Art. 4 Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001	16/06/2015
2469/2011/VL	Company operating in the chemical industry v ECHA	Dissemination of information under REACH	Art. 4 ECGAB; Art. 10, 77(2), 119 REACH	12/03/2014
1826/2010/VL	Company acting in the interest of its subsidiaries which operate in the chemical industry v ECHA	Dissemination of information under REACH, Request for public access to documents	Art. 4 ECGAB; Art. 4 Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001; Art. 10(a)(x), 77(2)(e), 119(1) REACH	18/12/2013