Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2022:496
Date: 2022-08-17
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Fourth Chamber
Subject matter: Provisions governing the Institutions;Access to documents
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Belgium

Order of the General Court of 17 August 2022 – Batchelor v Commission (Case T-85/18) 1 (Action for annulment – Representation by a lawyer who is not a third party independent of the applicant – Inadmissibility) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Edward William Batchelor (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: B. Hoorelbeke, lawyer and M. Healy, Solicitor) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Konstantinidis and C. Ehrbar, acting as Agents) Re: By his action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant, Mr Edward William Batchelor, seeks the annulment of European Commission Decision C(2017) 8430 final of 5 December 2017 in so far as it refused him access to the ethics declaration of a director of the institution and indicated that it did not hold any other document falling within the scope of his application for access to documents (‘the contested decision’). Operative part of the order The action is dismissed as inadmissible. Mr Edward William Batchelor is ordered to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 152, 30.4.2018.