Judgment;Information — ECLI:EU:T:2025:1089
Date: 2025-12-03
Language of the case: English
Procedure: Action for annulment

Action brought on 25 June 2024 – WS v Commission (Case T-318/24) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: WS (represented by: H. Tettenborn, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission Form of order sought The applicant claims that the Court should: annul the decision of EPSO (which is attributed to the EU Commission) to reject the applicant’s requests submitted by his letter of 04/01/2024, namely requests under the EUDPR, 1 as far as they were not fulfilled by EPSO’s answer of 15/04/2024; order the European Commission to pay the procedural costs. Pleas in law and main arguments In support of the action, the applicant relies on the following plea in law, alleging that EPSO breached its obligation of complying with Article 4(1)(a) and (f) and Article 4(2), Article 14(3) and Article 17(1)(a) and (c) and Article 17(3) EUDPR (whereby these breaches are attributed to the EU Commission). The applicant backs his claim especially by submitting that EPSO neither provided purposes nor recipients or categories of recipients of consultation operations disclosed, that the disclosed consultation operations were not complete, and that it did not provide copies of the personal data of the applicant undergoing processing. Further, the applicant submits that by not complying with its duties arising from Article 17 EUDPR, EPSO also breached Article 4(1)(a) and (f) and Article 4(2) EUDPR, by not demonstrating that the applicant’s data have been processed following the principles stipulated in those provisions (whereby also these breaches are attributed to the EU Commission). ____________ 1 Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ 2018 L 295, p. 39).