CELEX: 62008TA0344
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-344/08: Judgment of the General Court of 22 May 2012 — EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Administrative file relating to cartel proceedings — Refusal of access — Exception relating to protection of the purpose of investigations — Exception concerning the protection of the commercial interests of a third party — Exception concerning the protection of the decision-making process — Obligation of the institution concerned to carry out a concrete, individual examination of the content of the documents covered by the request for access)

30.6.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 194/18
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 22 May 2012 — EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg v Commission
   (Case T-344/08) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Administrative file relating to cartel proceedings - Refusal of access - Exception relating to protection of the purpose of investigations - Exception concerning the protection of the commercial interests of a third party - Exception concerning the protection of the decision-making process - Obligation of the institution concerned to carry out a concrete, individual examination of the content of the documents covered by the request for access)
   2012/C 194/27
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (Karlsruhe, Germany) (represented by: A. Bach and A. Hahn, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented: initially by P. Costa de Oliveira, A. Antoniadis and O. Weber and subsequently by A. Bouquet, P. Costa de Oliveira and A. Antoniadis, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: K. Petkovska, S. Johannesson and A. Falk, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich, Germany) (represented by: I. Brinker, C. Steinle and M. Holm-Hadulla, lawyers); and ABB Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland) (represented: initially by J. Lawrence, Solicitor, and E. Whiteford, Barrister, and subsequently by J. Lawrence and D. Howe, Solicitor)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision SG.E.3/MV/psi D(2008) 4931 of 16 June 2008 refusing access to the case-file in Case COMP/F/38.899 — Gas insulated switchgear
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision SG.E.3/MV/psi D(2008) 4931 of 16 June 2008 refusing access to the case-file in Case COMP/F/38.899 — Gas insulated switchgear;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Sweden, ABB Ltd and Siemens AG to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 272, 25.10.2008.