Case T-403/05 RENV: Order of the General Court of 10 January 2013 — MyTravel v Commission (Access to institutions’ documents — Documents concerning a merger decision annulled by the General Court — Refusal to grant access — No need to adjudicate)
Date: 2013-01-10
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: access to EU information, economic concentration, provision of documents, travel agency








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9.3.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 71/20





Order of the General Court of 10 January 2013 — MyTravel v Commission
(Case T-403/05 RENV) (1)

(Access to institutions’ documents - Documents concerning a merger decision annulled by the General Court - Refusal to grant access - No need to adjudicate)
2013/C 71/31
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: MyTravel Group plc (Rochdale, Lancashire, United Kingdom) (represented initially by: S. Cardell, B. Louveaux, P. Walter and P. Horan, Solicitors, and subsequently by: B. Louveaux, P. Walter and P. Horan, Solicitors)

Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: C. O’Reilly and P. Costa de Oliveira, acting as Agents, and subsequently by: P. Costa de Oliveira, acting as Agent)

Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented initially by: A. Falk, C. Meyer-Seitz, C. Stege and U. Persson, acting as Agents, and subsequently by: A. Falk and U. Persson, acting as Agents); Kingdom of Denmark (represented by: C.H. Vang and V. Pasternak Jørgensen, acting as Agents); Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: C. Wissels and J. Langer, acting as Agents); and the Republic of Finland (represented by: J. Heliskoski, acting as Agent)

Interveners in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: M. Lumma and B. Klein, acting as Agents); French Republic (represented by: E. Belliard, G. de Bergues and A. Adam, acting as Agents); United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: E. Jenkinson and S. Ossowski, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of the Commission Decisions of 5 September (D(2005) 8461) and 12 October 2005 (D(2005) 9763) rejecting an application brought by the applicant to obtain access to certain documents preparatory to Commission Decision 2000/276/EC of 22 September 1999 declaring a concentration to be incompatible with the common market and the EEA Agreement (Case IV/M.1524 — Airtours/First Choice) (OJ 2000 L 93, p. 1), and to documents drafted by the Commission’s services as a consequence of the annulment of that decision by the judgment of the General Court in Case T 342/99 Airtours v Commission (2002) ECR II-2585

Operative part of the order







1.


There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action.










2.


MyTravel Group plc shall bear half of its own costs in Cases T-403/05 and T-403/05 RENV and pay half of the costs incurred by the European Commission in Cases T-403/05 and T-403/05 RENV.










3.


The European Commission shall bear half of its own costs in Cases T-403/05 and T-403/05 RENV and pay half of the costs incurred by MyTravel Group plc in Cases T-403/05 and T-403/05 RENV.










4.


The European Commission shall bear its own costs and pay the costs incurred by the Kingdom of Sweden in Case C-506/08 P.










5.


The Kingdom of Sweden shall bear its own costs in Case T-403/05 RENV.










6.


The Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Finland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland shall bear their own costs in Cases C-508/06 P and T-403/05 RENV.






(1)  OJ C 10, 14.1.2006.