CELEX: 62007TJ0111
Access to documents
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
Documents relating to a procedure concerning a merger between undertakings
Refusal to grant access

ACTION for annulment of, first, the Commission’s decision of 2 August 2006 refusing the applicant access to documents concerning
the notification and pre notification procedure in relation to the acquisition of Unipetrol by Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen
SA (COMP/M.3543) and, second, Commission Decision D (2007) 1360 of 13 February 2007 confirming that refusal.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Declares that the head of claim seeking annulment of the reply of the European Commission of 2 August 2006 and that requesting
the Court to order the Commission to provide the applicant with the documents requested are inadmissible;
2.
Annuls Commission Decision D (2007) 1360 of 13 February 2007 refusing access to documents in Case COMP/M.3543 concerning the
merger between Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen SA and Unipetrol, exchanged between the Commission and the notifying parties and
between the Commission and third parties, and refusing access to the internal documents and legal advice drawn up in that
case;
3.
Orders the Commission to pay the costs;
4.
Orders the Kingdom of Sweden, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Denmark and Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen to bear their
own respective costs.