CELEX: 62017TA0039
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-39/17: Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2018 — Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to preliminary investigations concerning schemes for State aid in the ports sector of all the Member States — Refusal to grant access — Exception relating to the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual — Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 — Concept of privacy — Exception concerning the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Application of a general presumption — Overriding public interest)

5.11.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 399/33
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 September 2018 — Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) v Commission
      (Case T-39/17) (1)
      
      ((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to preliminary investigations concerning schemes for State aid in the ports sector of all the Member States - Refusal to grant access - Exception relating to the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual - Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 - Concept of privacy - Exception concerning the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits - Application of a general presumption - Overriding public interest))
      (2018/C 399/45)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) (Brest, France) (represented by: J. Vanden Eynde and E. Wauters, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Buchet, B. Stromsky and C. Georgieva- Kecsmar, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 263 TFEU, seeking annulment of Commission Decision C(2016) 7755 final of 23 November 2016 refusing to grant the applicant, first, full access to the questionnaire sent to all the Member States, secondly, access to the Member States’ replies to that questionnaire, referred to in a letter sent on 8 July 2016 to the French Republic in the context of State aid procedure SA.38398 (2016/C) (ex 2015/E) –Tax treatment of ports in France.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 104, 3.4.2017.