Court cases against the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority for access on public information
Since 2004, the Energy Club has made three claims against the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority altogether, after the Authority denied to release information regarding the serious incident of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in April 2003.
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Since 2004, the Energy Club has made three claims against the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority altogether, after the Authority denied to release information regarding the serious incident of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in April 2003. The first case, initiated in 2004 with seven further HR watchdog and green NGOs, was conducted for the publicity of the relevant documentary relating to the restart of the 2nd reactor of the Paks NPP which had been shut down for one and a half year following the incident. In the second and third case, as sole plaintiff, the Energy Club has been suing the Agency over the transparency of the licensing of the clean-up and reparation works to the 2003 incident (initiated in 2005), and the over the strategy related to the nuclear waste arisen from the incident (initiated in 2008).
So far, only the third case has been finished with legally binding decision, the two others have been waiting for their second restart on the first instance on the Metropolitan Court, after the Metropolitan Regional Court ordered the re-trial twice.
Until 2008, the legal counsel of the Energiaklub in the court cases was TASZ (The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union), since then the Védegylet provides advocacy.
