CELEX: 62010TA0300
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-300/10: Judgment of the General Court of 22 May 2012 — Internationaler Hilfsfonds v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to contract LIEN 97 2011 — Partial refusal of access — Determination of the subject-matter of the initial application — Exception relating to the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual — Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process — Principle of sound administration — Concrete and individual examination — Duty to state reasons)

30.6.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 194/19
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 22 May 2012 — Internationaler Hilfsfonds v Commission
   (Case T-300/10) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to contract LIEN 97 2011 - Partial refusal of access - Determination of the subject-matter of the initial application - Exception relating to the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual - Exception relating to protection of the decision-making process - Principle of sound administration - Concrete and individual examination - Duty to state reasons)
   2012/C 194/29
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV (Rosbach, Germany) (represented by: H. Kaltenecker, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Costa de Oliveira and T. Scharf, Agents, assisted by R. van der Hout, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 29 April 2010 refusing the applicant full access to the file relating to contract LIEN 97 2011
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 29 April 2010 in so far as it impliedly refuses access to the documents which it sent to the colleague of the European Ombudsman, other than those identified by the latter in files 1 to 4 of the file relating to contract LIEN 97 2011;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Also annuls the Commission’s decision of 29 April 2010 in so far as it expressly or impliedly refuses access to the documents of the file relating to contract LIEN 97 2011 referred to in paragraphs 106, 134, 194 and 196 of this judgment;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and four fifths of the costs incurred by Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 246, 11.9.2010.