Order — ECLI:EU:C:2011:726
Date: 2011-11-10
Language of the case: French
Court formation: First Chamber
Subject matter: Education, vocational training and youth;Provisions governing the Institutions;Access to documents
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded;Appeal - inadmissible
Origin: Cyprus

Order of the Court (First Chamber) of 10 November 2011 – Agapiou Joséphidès v Commission and EACEA (Case C-626/10 P) Appeal – Access to documents – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Article 4(1)(b) and (2), first indent – Protection of private life and integrity of the individual – Protection of commercial interests – Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 – Executive agencies – Competence to handle confirmatory requests regarding applications for access to documents – Principle of transparency – ‘Overriding public interest’ – Errors of law 1. Appeals – Pleas in law – Necessity of a specific challenge to a point in the General Court’s reasoning (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 112(1)(c)) (see para. 60) 2. Procedure – Statement of reasons for judgments – Scope (see para. 87) 3. Appeals – Pleas in law – Mistaken assessment of the facts – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of Justice of the assessment of the facts put before the General Court – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 107) 4. Actions for annulment – Time-limits – Point from which time starts to run – Measure not notified to the applicant – Duty to request the whole text of the decision within a reasonable time once aware of its existence (Art. 230, fifth para, EC) (see paras 127, 131) Re: Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 21 October 2010 in Case T‑439/08 Agapiou Joséphidès v Commission and EACEA , by which that court dismissed the action brought by the applicant seeking annulment, first, of the decision of EACEA of 1 August 2008 relating to an application for access to documents concerning the allocation of a Jean Monnet centre of excellence to the University of Cyprus and, second, of Commission Decision C(2007) 3749 of 8 August 2007 relating to an individual decision to allocate subsidies in the context of the lifelong learning programme, a Jean Monnet sub-programme – Infringement of the right of access to documents and of the principle of transparency – Errors of law. Operative part 1. The appeal is dismissed. 2. Ms Agapiou Joséphidès is ordered to pay the costs.