CELEX: 62010TA0590
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-590/10: Judgment of the General Court of 29 November 2012 — Thesing and Bloomberg Finance v ECB (Access to documents — Decision 2004/258/EC — Documents concerning the government debt and government deficit of a Member State — Refusal of access — Exception relating to the economic policy of the Union or of a Member State — Partial refusal of access)

26.1.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 26/41
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 29 November 2012 — Thesing and Bloomberg Finance v ECB
   (Case T-590/10) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Decision 2004/258/EC - Documents concerning the government debt and government deficit of a Member State - Refusal of access - Exception relating to the economic policy of the Union or of a Member State - Partial refusal of access)
   2013/C 26/78
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Gabi Thesing (London, United Kingdom); and Bloomberg Finance LP (Wilmington, Delaware, United States) (represented by: M. Stephens, R. Lands, Solicitors, and T. Pitt-Payne QC)
   
      Defendant: European Central Bank (ECB) (represented initially by A. Sáinz de Vieuña Barroso, M. López Torres and S. Lambrinoc, and subsequently by M. López Torres and S. Lambrinoc, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decision of the ECB’s Executive Board, which was notified to Ms Thesing by letter of the President of the ECB of 21 October 2010, rejecting an application by Ms Thesing for access to two documents concerning the government deficit and debt of the Hellenic Republic.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Ms Gabi Thesing and Bloomberg Finance LP to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Central Bank (ECB).
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 72, 5.3.2011.