CELEX: 62020TA0528
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-528/20: Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Kočner v Europol (Non-contractual liability — Expert reports carried out by Europol for the purposes of national criminal proceedings — Alleged unauthorised disclosure of data — Regulation (EU) 2016/794 — Article 50(1) — Non-material harm — Causal link)

22.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/46
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Kočner v Europol
      (Case T-528/20) (1)
      
      (Non-contractual liability - Expert reports carried out by Europol for the purposes of national criminal proceedings - Alleged unauthorised disclosure of data - Regulation (EU) 2016/794 - Article 50(1) - Non-material harm - Causal link)
      (2021/C 471/65)
      Language of the case: Slovakian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Marián Kočner (Bratislava, Slovakia) (represented by: M. Mandzák and M. Para, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (represented by: A. Nunzi, B. De Buck, T. Zwingler and A. van Oostenbrugge, acting as Agents, and by G. Ziegenhorn, M. Kottmann and S. Schulz-Große, lawyers)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: J. Rodríguez de la Rúa Puig, acting as Agent)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation for damage allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result of Europol’s disclosure of personal data and Europol’s inclusion of his name on the ‘Mafia lists’.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Marián Kočner to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 339, 12.10.2020.