CELEX: C2006/331/64
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-237/02: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2006 — Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Procedure for controlling State aid — Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Implied refusal — Obligation to carry out a concrete, individual examination — Intervention — Intervener's claims, pleas and arguments)

30.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/29
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2006 — Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau v Commission
   (Case T-237/02) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Procedure for controlling State aid - Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits - Implied refusal - Obligation to carry out a concrete, individual examination - Intervention - Intervener's claims, pleas and arguments)
   (2006/C 331/64)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH (Ilmenau, Germany) (represented by: initially G. Schohe and C. Arhold, and subsequently C. Arhold and N. Wimmer, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Kreuschitz, V. Di Bucci and P. Aalto, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: A. Kruse and K. Wistrand, Agents) and Republic of Finland (represented by: T. Pynnä, Agent)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Schott Glas (Mainz, Germany) (represented by: U. Soltész, lawyer)
   Re:
   Application for annulment of the Commission's decision of 28 May 2002 refusing the applicant access to documents relating to procedures for controlling State aid.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the Commission Decision of 28 May 2002 in so far as it refuses access to the documents relating to the investigation procedures in respect of aid granted to Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay three quarters of the costs incurred by Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau. The latter is to bear a quarter of its own costs;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Schott Glas, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Republic of Finland to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 233, 28.9.2002.