CELEX: 62005TA0144
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-144/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 2008 — Muñiz v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to a meeting of the Working Group of the  Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous) of the Customs Code Committee — Refusal of access — Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process)

21.2.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 44/41
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 2008 — Muñiz v Commission
   (Case T-144/05) (1)
   
   (Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to a meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs Code Committee - Refusal of access - Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process)
   (2009/C 44/70)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Pablo Muñiz (Brussels, Belgium) (represented: initially by B. Dehandschutter, and subsequently by L. Defalque, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: P. Costa de Oliveira and I. Chatzigiannis, Agents)
   Re:
   Application for annulment of the Commission's decision of 3 February 2005 refusing to grant access to certain documents relating to the September 2004 meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs Code Committee.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the Commission's decision of 3 February 2005 inasmuch as it refused access to documents, ‘TAXUD/1369/2003’ relating to home cinema, ‘TAXUD/974/2004’ relating to vehicles for dual use, ‘TAXUD/1342/2003’, ‘TAXUD/2465/2004’ and ‘TAXUD/2495/2004’ relating to power supply units, ‘XXI/770/1998’ relating to incomplete ADP machines, and to the minutes of the September 2004 meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs Code Committee (document ‘TAXUD/3010/2004 — Annex V’);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Declares that there is no need to adjudicate on the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to pay the costs incurred by Mr Pablo Muñiz.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 132, 28.5.2005.