CELEX: 62017TA0798
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-798/17: Judgment of the General Court of 12 March 2019 — De Masi and Varoufakis v ECB (Access to documents — Decision 2004/258/EC — Document entitled ‘Responses to questions concerning the interpretation of Article 14.4. of the Statute of the ESCB and the ECB’ — Denial of access — Exception relating to the protection of legal advice — Exception relating to the protection of documents intended for internal use — Overriding public interest)

29.4.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 148/49
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 March 2019 — De Masi and Varoufakis v ECB
      (Case T-798/17) (1)
      
      (Access to documents - Decision 2004/258/EC - Document entitled ‘Responses to questions concerning the interpretation of Article 14.4. of the Statute of the ESCB and the ECB’ - Denial of access - Exception relating to the protection of legal advice - Exception relating to the protection of documents intended for internal use - Overriding public interest)
      (2019/C 148/46)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Fabio De Masi (Hamburg, Germany) and Yanis Varoufakis (Athens, Greece) (represented by: A. Fischer-Lescano, professor)
      
         Defendant: European Central Bank (represented by: T. Filipova and F. von Lindeiner, acting as Agents, and by de H.-G. Kamann, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the decision of the ECB of 16 October 2017 refusing to grant the applicants access to the document of 23 April 2015 entitled ‘Responses to questions concerning the interpretation of Article 14.4. of the Statute of the ESCB and the ECB’.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     orders Mr Fabio De Masi and Mr Yanis Varoufakis to bear, in addition to their own costs, those incurred by the European Central Bank (ECB).
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 42, 5.2.2018.