CELEX: 62017TN0312
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Case T-312/17: Action brought on 1 June 2017 — Campbell v Commission

31.7.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 249/31
            
         Action brought on 1 June 2017 — Campbell v Commission
   (Case T-312/17)
   (2017/C 249/47)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Liam Campbell (Dundalk, Ireland) (represented by: J. MacGuill, Solicitor)
   
      Defendant: European Commission
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the Commission’s decision of 7 April 2017 refusing the applicant access to documents concerning infringement proceedings initiated against Lithuania for alleged non-implementation of Directive 2010/64/EU. (1)
               
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   In support of the action, the applicant relies on five pleas in law.
   
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               First plea in law, alleging the failure by the defendant to conduct a concrete assessment of the request for access to documents under Regulation 1049/2001, in breach of relevant case-law.
            
         
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               Second plea in law, alleging the defendant’s unlawful reliance on certain general presumptions relating to the disclosure of documents, in breach of the principles identified in the relevant case-law.
            
         
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               Third plea in law, alleging the defendant’s failure to process a specific and effective examination of the risk for each document, likewise in breach of relevant case-law.
            
         
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               Fourth plea in law, alleging the defendant’s failure to carry out a specific and effective examination of potential partial access in breach of the case-law.
            
         
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               Fifth plea in law alleging a manifest error of assessment by the defendant regarding the existence of an overriding public interest, in breach of the principles in the case-law.
            
         
      (1)  Directive 2010/64/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings (OJ 2010, L 280, p. 1).