71Second, under Article 2(1)(c) of Regulation No 1367/2006, the concept of ‘[EU] institutions and bodies’, to which that regulation applies in accordance with Article 1(1) thereof, covers ‘any public institution, body, office or agency established by, or on the basis of, the Treaty except when acting in a judicial or legislative capacity’. In that regard, recital 7 of that regulation states that that concept is defined in a ‘broad and functional way’, because of the ‘broad way’ in which the Aarhus Convention defines the public authorities to which it applies, in order to guarantee the rights of persons and their organisations where public authority is exercised. In addition, recital 11 of that regulation states that ‘other inquiry procedures where the [EU] institution or body acts as an administrative review body under provisions of the Treaty’ should also be excluded.
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