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Case T-483/25: Action brought on 19 July 2025 – Wölken v Commission
Date: 2025-07-19
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: access to EU information, data-processing law, disclosure of information, legislative procedure, right to information








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/5083


29.9.2025






Action brought on 19 July 2025 – Wölken v Commission


(Case T-483/25)

(C/2025/5083)
Language of the case: German

Parties


Applicant: Tiemo Wölken (Osnabrück, Germany) (represented by: C. Zatschler, Senior Counsel, and M. Sánchez Rydelski, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:






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First, annul the implicit decisions of the defendant of 30 May 2025 and 4 July 2025, by which the defendant, pursuant to Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, (1) the applicant’s requests for access to several documents relating to legislative procedures as rejected;










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Secondly, order the Commission to pay its own costs and those incurred by the applicant.





Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on one pleas in law.
The defendant infringed the contracts or a legal provision applicable to their implementation. The legal provision violated is Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents. Specifically, the Commission, as the defendant, violated Article 2(3) of that regulation.






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The Commission incorrectly assumes that the documents to which the applicant claims access are not in its possession. The Commission’s argument that the requested documents are not in its possession is directly refuted by the technical description of the e-Justice portal.










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As highlighted in the considerations on the Data Act and other legislative matters, data ownership does not exist from a civil law perspective. In practice, European legislation has often taken a different approach in recent years, focusing on the right to access certain data and use it for specific purposes described by law, without granting or defining property rights as such.










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Industrial property rights for the requested data are hardly legally possible and, in any case, are not known. Therefore, that possibility of restricting use is also ruled out. Even if the data were in the possession of the Member States and were only temporarily stored by the European Commission, there would be no legal basis for refusing to pass on this data to re-users such as the applicant.






(1)  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).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5083/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Notice for the attention of the natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP, as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/1478, and Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1476 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
Date: 2025-07-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian issue, Ukraine, economic sanctions, freezing of assets, international sanctions, legal person, natural person, territorial dispute, territorial law








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/4186


19.7.2025






Notice for the attention of the natural and legal persons, entities and bodies subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP, as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/1478, and Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1476 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
(C/2025/4186)

The following information is brought to the attention of the persons, entities and bodies that appear in the Annex to Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP (1), as amended by Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/1478 (2), and in Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 (3) as implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1476 (4) concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
Article 9(2) of Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 requires that those persons, entities or bodies must report, before 1 September 2022 or within 6 weeks from the date of listing in Annex I, whichever is latest, funds or economic resources within the jurisdiction of a Member State belonging to, owned, held or controlled by them, to the competent authority of the Member State where those funds or economic resources are located. They must cooperate with the national competent authority in any verification of such information. Failure to comply with these obligations will be considered as circumvention of the measures on the freezing of funds and of economic resources.
The information to be reported must be sent to the competent authority of the relevant Member State, via its website as indicated in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 (5).


(1)  
            OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 16.

(2)  
            OJ L, 2025/1478, 19.7.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/1478/oj.

(3)  
            OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 6.

(4)  
            OJ L, 2025/1476, 19.7.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1476/oj.

(5)  Last consolidated version available at EUR-Lex - 02014R0269-20240314 - FR - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/4186/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)