CELEX: 62012TA0223
Language: en
Date: 2014-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-223/12: Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2014 —Ntouvas v ECDC (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Article 4(2), third indent — Final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Commission’s Internal Audit Service — Refusal of access — Obligation to state reasons — Obligation to undertake a concrete, individual examination — Overriding public interest)

12.1.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 7/30
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2014 —Ntouvas v ECDC
   (Case T-223/12) (1)
   
   ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Article 4(2), third indent - Final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Commission’s Internal Audit Service - Refusal of access - Obligation to state reasons - Obligation to undertake a concrete, individual examination - Overriding public interest))
   (2015/C 007/32)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ioannis Ntouvas (Agios Stefanos, Greece) (represented: by E. Mylonas, and V. Kolias, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (represented: initially by R. Trott, and subsequently by J. Mannheim and A. Daume, acting as Agents, assisted by D. Waelbroeck and A. Duron, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the decision of the ECDC of 27 March 2012 (DIR-12-0636-MSrukr) refusing the applicant access to the final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) of 27 March 2012 (DIR-12-0636-MSrukr) refusing Mr Ioannis Ntouvas access to the final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders the ECDC to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 227, 28.7.2012.