CELEX: C2000/372/21
Language: en
Date: 2000-12-23 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 October 2000 in Case T-123/99: JT's Corporation Ltd v Commission of the European Communities (Transparency — Access to documents — Decision 94/90/ECSC, EC, Euratom — Scope of the exception based on protection of the public interest — Inspection and investigation tasks — Authorship rule — Statement of reasons)

C 372/10                 EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                        23.12.2000
                                                           COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                                                                                                     of 12 October 2000
                        of 17 October 2000
                                                                            in Case T-123/99: JT’s Corporation Ltd v Commission of
                                                                                              the European Communities (1)
in Case T-27/99: Humbert Drabbe v Commission of the
                    European Communities (1)
                                                                            (Transparency — Access to documents — Decision
                                                                            94/90/ECSC, EC, Euratom — Scope of the exception based
                                                                            on protection of the public interest — Inspection and
(Officials — Pensions — Acquired rights — Rights acquired                   investigation tasks — Authorship rule — Statement of
before taking up post with the Commission — Transfer to                                                     reasons)
the Community scheme — Submission of application —
                            Time-limits)
                                                                                                       (2000/C 372/21)
                          (2000/C 372/20)
                                                                                                (Language of the case: English)
                                                                            In Case T-123/99: JT’s Corporation Ltd, established in Bromley
                     (Language of the case: Dutch)                          (United Kingdom), represented by M. Cornwell-Kelly, Solicitor,
                                                                            with an address for service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of
                                                                            Wilson Associates, 3 Boulevard Royal, against Commission of
                                                                            the European Communities (Agents: U. Wölker and X. Lewis)
In Case T-27/99: Humbert Drabbe, an official of the Com-                    — application for the annulment of the Commission’s decision
mission of the European Communities, residing in Overijse                   of 11 March 1999 refusing the applicant access to certain
(Belgium), represented by G. van der Wal, lawyer with the                   documents — the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber),
right of audience before the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden, and                 composed of: V. Tiili, President, R.M. Moura Ramos and
L. Y. J. M. Parret, of the Brussels Bar, with an address for service        P. Mengozzi, Judges; B. Pastor, Principal Administrator, for the
in Luxembourg at the Chambers of A. May, 31, Grand-rue,                     Registrar, has given a judgment on 12 October 2000, in which
against Commission of the European Communities (Agents:                     it:
F. Duvieusart-Clotuche and C. Van der Hauwaert) — appli-
cation for the annulment of the decision of the Commission of
19 October 1998, notified to Humbert Drabbe on 23 October                   1.    Annuls the Commission decision of 11 March 1999 in so far
1998, rejecting his complaint against the defendant’s decision                    as it refuses the applicant access to the mission reports of the
to transfer his pension rights acquired in the Netherlands to                     European Union from 1993 to 1996 concerning Bangladesh,
the Community pension scheme — the Court of First Instance                        including their annexes, and to the correspondence sent by the
(Third Chamber), composed of K. Lenaerts, President, J. Azizi                     Commission to the Government of Bangladesh concerning the
and M. Jaeger, Judges; G. Herzig, administrator, for the                          annulment of the certificates of origin under the generalised
Registrar, gave a judgment on 17 October 2000, the operative                      system of preferences;
part of which is as follows:
                                                                            2.    Dismisses the remainder of the action;
1.    The application is dismissed.
                                                                            3.    Orders the applicant to bear one half of its own costs;
2.    Each of the parties shall bear its own costs.
                                                                            4.    Orders the Commission to bear its own costs, and to pay one
                                                                                  half of the costs incurred by the applicant.
(1) OJ C 71 of 13.3.1998.
                                                                            (1) OJ C 226 of 7.8.1999.