CELEX: 62018TA0015
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-15/18: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — OCU v ECB (Access to documents — Decision 2004/258/EC — Documents relating to the adoption of a resolution scheme in respect of Banco Popular Español — Refusal to grant access — Exception relating to the protection of the confidentiality of information that is protected as such under EU law — Concept of confidential information — Exemptions from the obligation of professional secrecy — Right to a fair hearing)

6.12.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 490/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — OCU v ECB
      (Case T-15/18) (1)
      
      (Access to documents - Decision 2004/258/EC - Documents relating to the adoption of a resolution scheme in respect of Banco Popular Español - Refusal to grant access - Exception relating to the protection of the confidentiality of information that is protected as such under EU law - Concept of confidential information - Exemptions from the obligation of professional secrecy - Right to a fair hearing)
      (2021/C 490/28)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Organización de Consumidores y Usuarios (OCU) (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: E. Martínez Martínez and C. López-Mélida de Ramón, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: T. Filipova, D. Báez Seara and F. von Lindeiner, acting as Agents, and M. Kottmann, lawyer)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, J. Rius, C. Ehrbar and A. Steiblytė, acting as Agents), Banco Santander, SA (Santander, Spain) (represented by: J. Rodríguez Cárcamo and A. Rodríguez Conde, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for partial annulment of Decision LS/MD/17/428 of the ECB of 17 November 2017 refusing access to certain documents relating to the adoption of a resolution scheme in respect of Banco Popular Español, SA.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the application;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Organización de Consumidores y Usuarios (OCU) to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Central Bank (ECB);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission and Banco Santander, SA to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 83, 5.3.2018.