CELEX: 62005TJ0144
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 18 December 2008.#Pablo Muñiz v Commission of the European Communities.#Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to a meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs Code Committee - Refusal of access - Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process.#Case T-144/05.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 18 December 2008 – Muñiz v Commission
      (Case T-144/05)
      Access to documents – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Documents relating to a meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’
         of the Customs Code Committee – Refusal of access – Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process
      
      European Communities – Institutions – Right of public access to documents – Regulation No 1049/2001 – Exceptions to the right of access to documents (Regulation of the European Parliament and Council No 1049/2001, Art. 2(1)
         and 4(3), first para.) (see paras 74-75, 82, 84-88, 90-94)
      
      Re: 
      
         APPLICATION for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 3 February 2005 refusing to grant access to certain documents relating
                  to the September 2004 meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)
               
               ’ :
                  														
               
                of the Customs Code Committee.
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Annuls the Commission’s decision of 3 February 2005 inasmuch as it refused access to documents, ‘TAXUD/1369/2003’ relating
                     to home cinema, ‘TAXUD/974/2004’ relating to vehicles for dual use, ‘TAXUD/1342/2003’, ‘TAXUD/2465/2004’ and ‘TAXUD/2495/2004’
                     relating to power supply units, ‘XXI/770/1998’ relating to incomplete ADP machines, and to the minutes of the September 2004
                     meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs
                     Code Committee (document ‘TAXUD/3010/2004 – Annex V’);
                  
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Declares that there is no need to adjudicate on the remainder of the action;
               
            
         
                  3.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders the Commission to pay the costs incurred by Mr Pablo Muñiz.