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Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber), 22 May 2012

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG v European Commission

Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Administrative file relating to cartel proceedings — Refusal of access — Exception relating to protection of the purpose of investigations — Exception concerning the protection of the commercial interests of a third party — Exception concerning the protection of the decision-making process — Obligation of the institution concerned to carry out a concrete, individual examination of the content of the documents covered by the request for access

Case T‑344/08

(Appeal Case before the Court of Justice C-365/12 P)

Documents in the Case

Document

Date

Name of the parties

Subject-matter

Curia

EUR-Lex

Autres Liens

Judgment (OJ)

15/06/2012

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg v Commission

Provisions governing the institutions

Judgment
ECLI:EU:T:2012:242

22/05/2012

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg v Commission

Provisions governing the institutions

Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:T:2012:242

22/05/2012

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg v Commission

Provisions governing the institutions

Application (OJ)

25/10/2008

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg v Commission

Provisions governing the institutions

Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Annulment of the Commission’s decision of 16 June 2008 refusing to grant the applicant access to the administrative file of a proceeding under Article 81 EC and Article 53 EEA (Case COMP/F/38.899 – Gas insulated switchgear) concerning a cartel in the industry for gas insulated switchgear projects

Systematic classification scheme

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.02 Exceptions
      2.03.02.01 Principles
        2.03.02.01.03 Concrete, individual examination of the documents
          2.03.02.01.03.01 Obligation to carry out a concrete, individual examination

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.01 Scope
      2.03.01.00 General

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.02 Exceptions
      2.03.02.01 Principles
        2.03.02.01.03 Concrete, individual examination of the documents
          2.03.02.01.03.02 Exceptions to the obligation to carry out a concrete, individual examination
            2.03.02.01.03.02.00 General

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.02 Exceptions
      2.03.02.03 Relative exceptions
        2.03.02.03.05 Protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits
          2.03.02.03.05.00 General

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.02 Exceptions
      2.03.02.01 Principles
        2.03.02.01.03 Concrete, individual examination of the documents
          2.03.02.01.03.02 Exceptions to the obligation to carry out a concrete, individual examination
            2.03.02.01.03.02.00 General

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.02 Exceptions
      2.03.02.01 Principles
        2.03.02.01.03 Concrete, individual examination of the documents
          2.03.02.01.03.02 Exceptions to the obligation to carry out a concrete, individual examination
            2.03.02.01.03.02.01 Applications for access that are particularly burdensome

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.02 Exceptions
      2.03.02.03 Relative exceptions
        2.03.02.03.03 Protection of commercial interests

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.01 Scope
      2.03.01.04 Relationship with specific rights of access
        2.03.01.04.02 Privileged rights of access
          2.03.01.04.02.01 Right of access to the Commission's competition or State aid file

4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.03 Implementation of the competition rules
      4.08.03.02 Procedure for the application of the competition rules by the Commission
        4.08.03.02.06 Hearing of persons concerned and of third parties / Access to the file

2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.03 Right of public access to documents
    2.03.02 Exceptions
      2.03.02.03 Relative exceptions
        2.03.02.03.06 Protection of the decision-making process
          2.03.02.03.06.02 Completed procedure

Citations of case-law or legislation

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

25/08/2008

Date of the Opinion

Information not available

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

22/05/2012

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 272 from 25.10.2008, p.42

Judgment: OJ C 194 from 30.06.2012, p.18

Name of the parties

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

Kapp, Thomas: "Spannungsverhältnis zwischen nationaler und europäischer Entscheidungspraxis zum Akteneinsichtsrecht bedarf der Klärung", Betriebs-Berater 2012 p.1695-1696 (DE)
Idot, Laurence: Actions en réparation et accès au dossier de la Commission, Europe 2012 Mai Comm. nº 7 p.280 (FR)
Cardonnel, Pascal: Accès au dossier - R. 1049/2001 : Le Tribunal de l’UE annule le refus de la Commission de divulguer les pièces de son dossier à une victime du cartel des appareillages de commutation à isolation gazeuse (EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg), Concurrences : revue des droits de la concurrence 2012 nº 3 p.188-190 (FR)
Girgenson, Ianis: Une nouvelle défaite de la Commission en matière de transparence, Revue Lamy de la Concurrence : droit, économie, régulation 2012 nº 32 p.95-96 (FR)
Palzer, Christoph: Stolperstein für die Kommission? Die Kronzeugenregelung auf dem Prüfstand der Transparenz-VO, Europarecht 2012 p.583-607 (DE)
Azoulai, Loïc ; Coutts, Stephen: Restricting Union citizen's residence rights on grounds of public security. Where Union citizenship and the AFSJ meet: P.I., Common Market Law Review 2013 p.553-570 (EN)
Yomere, Anika: Die Entscheidung im Verfahren EnBW zum Recht von Schadensersatzklägern auf Akteneinsicht in Verfahrensakten der Kommission, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb 2013 p.34-40 (DE)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Information not available

Subject-matter

Provisions governing the institutions
Competition
- Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
- Access to documents

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

Actions for annulment : application granted

Formation of the Court

quatrième chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Pelikánová

Advocate General

Information not available

Language(s) of the Case

German

Language(s) of the Opinion

Information not available

Reports of Cases

Subject-matter

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

Date of the Opinion

Date of the hearing

Date of delivery

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Name of the parties

Notes on Academic Writings

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Subject-matter

Provisions of national law referred to

Provisions of international law referred to

Procedure and result

Formation of the Court

Judge-Rapporteur

Advocate General

Language(s) of the Case

Language(s) of the Opinion