Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2025:488
Date: 2025-05-14
Language of the case: Polish
Court formation: Second Chamber
Subject matter: Provisions governing the Institutions;Access to documents
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded;Action for annulment - successful;Action for annulment
Origin: Poland

Judgment of the General Court of 14 May 2025 – Smart Kid v Commission (Case T-227/24) 1 (Access to documents – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Documents relating to discussions between the Commission and a direct competitor of the applicant – Refusal to grant access – Exception relating to the protection of commercial interests – Obligation to state reasons) Language of the case: Polish Parties Applicant: Smart Kid S.A. (Warsaw, Poland) (represented by: Z. Kiedacz, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Burón Pérez and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents) Re: By its action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of Commission Decision C(2024) 1118 final of 15 February 2024 refusing to grant access to various documents relating to discussions between the European Commission and one of the applicant’s direct competitors. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Annuls Commission Decision C(2024) 1118 final of 15 February 2024 in so far as it refused, in part or in full, access to documents 1, 2 and 2.1, as identified in point 1 of that decision, on the basis of the first indent of Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents; Orders the European Commission to the pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C C/2024/3785, 24.6.2024.