Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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Order of the General Court of 14 October 2024 – WS v EUIPO

(Case T-1138/23)
 [(1)](#ntr1-C_202407173EN.000101-E0001)

(Action for annulment and for damages - Law governing the institutions - Protection of personal data - Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 - Failure to comply with procedural requirements - Article 76(d) of the Rules of Procedure - Inadmissibility)

(C/2024/7173)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: WS (represented by: H. Tettenborn, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (represented by: E. Lekan and A. Ketels-Salet, acting as Agents)

Re:

By his action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks, in the first place, the annulment of the decision of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 22 September 2023 rejecting, in particular, his request of 25 July 2023, submitted pursuant to Article 65 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC ([OJ 2018 L 295, p. 39](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:L:2018:295:TOC)), seeking compensation for the material and non-material harm he allegedly suffered as a result of EUIPO’s conduct in his regard (‘the contested decision’), and, in the second place, an order that EUIPO pay damages of at least EUR 500 000 as compensation for that harm.

Operative part of the order

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| 1. | The action is dismissed. |

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| 2. | WS shall pay the costs. |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/7173/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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