Case T-235/24: Judgment of the General Court of 18 June 2025 – Zver v Commission (Access to documents – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Documents relating to a meeting between the Vice-President of the Commission and the President of the Slovenian Constitutional Court – Partial refusal of access – Exception relating to the protection of personal data – Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process – Overriding public interest – Compliance with time limits – Misuse of powers)
Date: 2025-06-18
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: European Commissioner, Slovenia, abuse of power, access to EU information, administrative procedure, correspondence, electronic mail, general legal principle, infringement of EU law








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/4153


4.8.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 18 June 2025 – Zver v Commission


(Case T-235/24)
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(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to a meeting between the Vice-President of the Commission and the President of the Slovenian Constitutional Court - Partial refusal of access - Exception relating to the protection of personal data - Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process - Overriding public interest - Compliance with time limits - Misuse of powers)
(C/2025/4153)
Language of the case: Slovenian

Parties


Applicant: Milan Zver (Destrnik, Slovenia) (represented by: J. Stušek, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Burón Pérez and B. Rous Demiri, acting as Agents)

Re:

By his action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of Decision C(2024) 1658 final of the European Commission of 7 March 2024, adopted pursuant to Article 4 of the Detailed rules for the application 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 (OJ 2001 L 145, p. 43) and partially refusing the applicant’s confirmatory application for access to documents relating to the meeting which took place between the then Vice-President of the Commission – Ms Jourová – and the then President of the Ustavno sodišče (Constitutional Court, Slovenia) during Ms Jourová’s official visit to Slovenia between 1 and 3 March 2023.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls Decision C(2024) 1658 final of the European Commission of 7 March 2024, adopted pursuant to Article 4 of the Detailed rules for the application 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, in so far as it refused access to a sentence on page 8 of the document entitled ‘briefing country visit (day 1), 1 March 2023’ and bearing the reference Ares (2024) 1820776;










2.


Dismisses the action as to the remainder;










3.


Orders Mr Milan Zver and the Commission each to bear their own costs.






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            OJ C, C/2024/4093, 8.7.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/4153/oj
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