CELEX: 62005TJ0121
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 11 March 2009.#Borax Europe Ltd v Commission of the European Communities.#Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents and sound recordings - Refusal of access - Exception relating to the protection of the privacy and integrity of the individual - Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process.#Case T-121/05.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 11 March 2009 – Borax Europe v Commission
      (Case T-121/05)
      Access to documents – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Documents and sound recordings – Refusal of access – Exception relating to the protection of the privacy and integrity of the individual – Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process
      European Communities – Institutions – Right of public access to documents – Regulation No 1049/2001 (European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Arts 3 and 4(3)) (see paras 33-35, 43,
         63, 66-70, 73)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of 17 January 2005 of the Secretary-General of the Commission refusing access to
                  certain documents and sound recordings in connection with the 30th adaptation to technical progress of Council Directive 67/548/EEC
                  of 27 June 1967 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification,
                  packaging and labelling of dangerous substances (OJ, English Special Edition 1967(I), p. 234).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Annuls the decision of 17 January 2005 of the Secretary-General of the Commission refusing access to certain documents and
                     sound recordings in connection with the 30th adaptation to technical progress of Council Directive 67/548/EEC of 27 June 1967
                     on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and
                     labelling of dangerous substances;
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Commission to pay the costs.