Case T-237/02: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2006 — Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Procedure for controlling State aid — Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Implied refusal — Obligation to carry out a concrete, individual examination — Intervention — Intervener's claims, pleas and arguments)
Date: 2006-12-30
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: access to information, action for annulment (EU), document, glass industry, provision of documents

30.12.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 331/29

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of
14 December 2006 — Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau v
Commission

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 December
2006 — Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich and Others v
Commission

(Case T-237/02) (1)

(Joined Cases T-259/02 to T-264/02 and T-271/02) (1)

(Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 —
Procedure for controlling State aid — Exception relating to the
protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and
audits — Implied refusal — Obligation to carry out a
concrete, individual examination — Intervention — Interve-
ner's claims, pleas and arguments)

(2006/C 331/64)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH (Ilmenau,
Germany) (represented by:
initially G. Schohe and C. Arhold,
and subsequently C. Arhold and N. Wimmer, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: V. Kreuschitz, V. Di Bucci and P. Aalto, Agents)

Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Sweden (repre-
sented by: A. Kruse and K. Wistrand, Agents) and Republic of
Finland (represented by: T. Pynnä, Agent)

Intervener
Germany) (represented by: U. Soltész, lawyer)

in support of

the defendant: Schott Glas

(Mainz,

Re:

Application for annulment of the Commission's decision of 28
May 2002 refusing the applicant access to documents relating
to procedures for controlling State aid.

(Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
— Austrian banking market — ‘Lombard Club’ — Effect on
trade between Member States — Calculation of fines)

(2006/C 331/65)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG (Vienna,
lawyer) (Case T-259/02);
Austria) (represented by: S. Völcker,
Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG (Vienna)
(represented by: C.
Zschocke and J. Beninca, lawyers) (Case T-260/02); Anteilsver-
waltung BAWAG PSK AG,
formerly Bank für Arbeit und
Wirtschaft AG, (Vienna) (represented by: initially H.-J. Niemeyer
and M. von Hinden and then by H.-J. Niemeyer, lawyers) (Case
T-261/02); Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien AG
(Vienna) (represented by: H. Wollmann,
lawyer) (Case T-262/
02); BAWAG PSK Bank für Arbeit und Wirtschaft und Österrei-
formerly Österreichische Postspar-
chische Postsparkasse AG,
kasse AG (Vienna) (represented by: initially H.-J. Niemeyer and
M. von Hinden and then by H.-J. Niemeyer, lawyers) (Case T-
263/02); Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG
initially W. Kirchhoff, F. Montag, G.
(Vienna) (represented by:
Bauer and A. Wegner and then by F. Montag et A. Wegner,
lawyers)
(Case T 264/02); Österreichische Volksbanken AG
(Vienna) and Niederösterreichische Landesbank-Hypothekenbank
AG (St. Pölten, Austria) (represented by: R. Roniger, A. Ablasser,
R. Bierwagen et F. Neumayr, lawyers) (Case T-271/02)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: initially S. Rating and then by A. Bouquet, Agents,
assisted by D. Waelbroeck and U. Zinsmeister, lawyers)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Re:

1. Annuls the Commission Decision of 28 May 2002 in so far as it
refuses access to the documents relating to the investigation proce-
dures in respect of aid granted to Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau
GmbH;

2. Dismisses the remainder of the action;

in full or in part of
Primarily, applications for annulment
Commission Decision 2004/138/EC of 11 June 2002 relating
to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty (Case COMP/
36.571/D-1: Austrian banks — ‘Lombard Club’) (OJ 2004 L 56,
p. 1) and, in the alternative, for reduction of the fines imposed
on the applicants

3. Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay three
quarters of the costs incurred by Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau.
The latter is to bear a quarter of its own costs;

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

4. Orders Schott Glas, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Republic of

Finland to bear their own costs.

(1) OJ C 233, 28.9.2002.

1. In Case T-263/02, reduces the amount of the fine imposed on the
Österreichische Postsparkasse AG, the predecessor in title of the
applicant, by Article 3 of Commission Decision 2004/138/EC of
11 June 2002 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC
Treaty (Case COMP/36.571/D-1: Austrian banks — ‘Lombard
Club’) to EUR 3 795 000;

2. Dismisses the actions as to the remainder;