CELEX: 62011TA0447
Language: en
Date: 2014-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-447/11: Judgment of the General Court of 21 May 2014  — Catinis v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to an OLAF investigation concerning the implementation of a project for the modernisation of infrastructure in Syria — Access refused — Exception concerning the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits)

7.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 212/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 May 2014 — Catinis v Commission
   (Case T-447/11) (1)
   
   ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to an OLAF investigation concerning the implementation of a project for the modernisation of infrastructure in Syria - Access refused - Exception concerning the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits))
   2014/C 212/27
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Lian Catinis (Damascus, Syria) (represented by: S. Pappas, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J.-P. Keppenne and F. Clotuche Duvieusart, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decision of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) of 10 June 2011 refusing, first, to grant the purported request to close OLAF’s investigation concerning a project for the modernisation of infrastructure in Syria and, second, to grant access to certain documents in the file relating to that investigation.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action.
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Mr Lian Catinis to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 298, 8.10. 011.