62022TO0104_INF
Order of the President of the Seventh Chamber of the General Court of 8 June 2022 – Hungary v Commission
(Case T‑104/22 R)
(Interim measures – Access to documents – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – European Structural and Investment Funds – Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 – Documents originating from a Member State – Application for suspension of operation of a measure – Prima facie case – Urgency – Balancing of interests)
1.
Interim relief – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Prima facie case – Prima facie examination of the pleas in law put forward in support of the main action – Pleas concerning the applicability of the exception to the right of public access laid down by Regulation No 1049/2001 and breach of the obligation of loyal cooperation – Pleas not prima facie unfounded
(Art. 4 TEU; Arts 278 and 279 TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulations No 1049/2001, Recital 10 and Arts 2(3) and 4(1)(a), (2), (4) and (5), and No 1303/2013, Recital 10 and Art. 73)
(see paras 19, 20, 43-48, 50-52)
2.
EU institutions – Right of public access to documents – Regulation No 1049/2001 – Exceptions to the right of access to documents – Documents originating from a Member State – Power of the Member State to request the institution not to disclose documents – Competence of the institution – Review of the merits of the refusal to grant access having regard to the exceptions set out in that regulation – Scope – Obligation to state reasons
(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(1) to (3) and (5))
(see paras 33-37)
3.
Interim relief – Suspension of operation of a measure – Interim measures – Conditions for granting – Urgency – Serious and irreparable damage – Burden of proof – Commission decision granting partial access to documents originating from the authorities of a Member State – Impossibility of subsequently restoring their confidentiality – Included
(Arts 278 and 279 TFEU)
(see paras 54, 57-60)
Operative part
1.
Operation of the European Commission’s decision of 14 December 2021, adopted in accordance with 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, concerning the confirmatory application GestDem 2021/2808, which is aimed at ensuring public access to documents originating from the Hungarian authorities, is suspended in so far as that decision grants access to documents originating from those authorities.
2.
The costs are reserved.