CELEX: 62016TA0903
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-903/16: Judgment of the General Court of 14 February 2019 — RE v Commission (Personal data — Protection of natural persons with respect to the processing of their data — Right of access to those data — Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 — Refusal to grant access — Actions for annulment — Email referring to an earlier partial refusal of access without carrying out a re-examination — Concept of a challengeable act within the meaning of Article 263 TFEU — Concept of a purely confirmatory act — Applicability to access to personal data — Substantial new facts — Interest in bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Obligation to state reasons)

8.4.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 131/40
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 14 February 2019 — RE v Commission
      (Case T-903/16) (1)
      
      (Personal data - Protection of natural persons with respect to the processing of their data - Right of access to those data - Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 - Refusal to grant access - Actions for annulment - Email referring to an earlier partial refusal of access without carrying out a re-examination - Concept of a challengeable act within the meaning of Article 263 TFEU - Concept of a purely confirmatory act - Applicability to access to personal data - Substantial new facts - Interest in bringing proceedings - Admissibility - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2019/C 131/45)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: RE (represented by: S. Pappas, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: H. Kranenborg and D. Nardi, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the note of the Director of the Security Directorate of the Directorate-General for Human Resources of the Commission of 12 October 2016 in so far as it rejects the applicant’s request for access to some of his personal data.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls the note of 12 October 2016 of the director of the Security Directorate of the Directorate-General for Human Resources of the Commission, in so far as it rejects the request of 21 September 2016 of RE for access to some of his personal data;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Commission to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 53, 20.2.2017.