A recent Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) decision serves as a reminder as to how the ICO will deal with arguments that contracts are subject to the exception in Regulation 12(5)(e) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (the EIR). The decision provides pointers on when a contract will be viewed as containing non-disclosable environmental information.

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This article was first published in Property Law Journal (April 2016)

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