CELEX: 62017TA0751
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-751/17: Judgment of the General Court of 14 May 2019 — Commune de Fessenheim and Others v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Letter sent by the Commission to the French authorities regarding the protocol for the compensation of the EDF Group in respect of the repeal of the permit to operate the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant — Refusal of access — Exception relating to the protection of the commercial interests of a third party — Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — General presumption of confidentiality — Overriding public interest)

8.7.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 230/32
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 14 May 2019 — Commune de Fessenheim and Others v Commission
      (Case T-751/17) (1)
      
      (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Letter sent by the Commission to the French authorities regarding the protocol for the compensation of the EDF Group in respect of the repeal of the permit to operate the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant - Refusal of access - Exception relating to the protection of the commercial interests of a third party - Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits - General presumption of confidentiality - Overriding public interest)
      (2019/C 230/39)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Commune de Fessenheim (France), Communauté de communes Pays Rhin-Brisach (Volgelsheim, France), Conseil départemental du Haut-Rhin (Colmar, France), Conseil régional Grand Est Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine (Strasbourg, France) (represented by: G. de Rubercy, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Buchet and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented by: E. de Moustier, B. Fodda and J.-L. Carré, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the Commission Decision of 18 October 2017 refusing access to the letter which it sent to the French authorities on 22 March 2017 regarding the draft protocol for the compensation of the Électricité de France (EDF) Group in respect of the closure of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Commune de Fessenheim, the communauté de communes Pays Rhin-Brisach, the conseil départemental du Haut-Rhin and the conseil régional Grand Est Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine to bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 32, 29.1.2018.