CELEX: 62017TA0152
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-152/17: Judgment of the General Court of 5 December 2018 — Sumner v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents concerning an infringement procedure brought by the Commission against Ireland — Refusal of access — Exception concerning the protection of inspections, investigations and audits — General presumption — Overriding public interest)

4.2.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 44/28
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 5 December 2018 — Sumner v Commission
      (Case T-152/17) (1)
      
      ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents concerning an infringement procedure brought by the Commission against Ireland - Refusal of access - Exception concerning the protection of inspections, investigations and audits - General presumption - Overriding public interest))
      (2019/C 44/36)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Loreto Sumner (Leixlip, Ireland) (represented by: J. MacGuill and E. Martin-Vignerte, Solicitors)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Ehrbar and M. Konstantinidis, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Ireland (represented initially by: A. Joyce and L. Williams and subsequently by A. Joyce, M. Browne and G. Hodge, acting as Agents, and by A. Carroll, Barrister-at-Law)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2017) 247 final of 13 January 2017 refusing access to documents relating to infringement procedure 2014/4131 brought against Ireland regarding the application of Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time (OJ 2003 L 299, p. 9).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Ms Loreto Sumner to pay the costs;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Ireland to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 144, 8.5.2017.