Order — ECLI:EU:T:2006:381
Date: 2006-12-11
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Second Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: State aids;Competition;Provisions governing the Institutions;Access to documents;Fundamental rights
Concepts: General;Admissibility and examination of applications, forms of order sought and pleas in law
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Germany

Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 11 December 2006 – Weber v Commission (Case T-290/05) Access to documents of the Community institutions – Refusal – Application initiating proceedings – Manifest inadmissibility – No need to adjudicate 1. Actions for annulment – Jurisdiction of the Community judicature – Direction issued to an institution – Not permissible (Art. 230 EC) (see para. 20) 2. Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Reformulation of the initial pleadings – Conditions (see para. 22) 3. Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 21, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, Art. 44(1)(c) and (d)) (see para. 29) Re: ACTION brought against the decision of the Secretariat-General of the Commission of 27 May 2005, rejecting the request for access by the applicant to a letter sent by the Directorate General for Competition to the Federal German Government concerning State aid proceedings. Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the action as manifestly inadmissible; 2. Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and those incurred by the Commission.