Reports of Cases

2007 II-04523

Subject-matter

First, annulment of the Commission Decision of 18 March 2004 refusing the applicant access to a document concerning a meeting held in connection with proceedings for failure to fulfil Treaty obligations relating to the United Kingdom legislation applying to the retail sale in the United Kingdom of beers from other Member States and, secondly, a declaration that the Commission's decision to take no further action in the said proceedings was adopted in breach of Community law

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 226 : paragraph 55
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 255 : paragraph 99
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 255 -P2 : paragraph 116
• EU Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 6 -P2 : paragraphs 112, 116
• General Court - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A87P2 : paragraph 159
• General Court - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A87P4L3 : paragraph 159
• Directive 95/46 : paragraph 111
• Directive 95/46 -C33 : paragraph 119
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2000) -A07 : paragraphs 14, 71
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2000) -A08 : paragraph 71
• Regulation 45/2001 : paragraphs 98, 101 - 103, 111, 137
• Regulation 45/2001 -A02LA : paragraphs 104, 122
• Regulation 45/2001 -A02LB : paragraphs 105, 106
• Regulation 45/2001 -A05LA : paragraph 106
• Regulation 45/2001 -A05LB : paragraphs 106, 109
• Regulation 45/2001 -A08 : paragraph 91
• Regulation 45/2001 -A08LB : paragraphs 107, 108, 138
• Regulation 45/2001 -A10 : paragraph 119
• Regulation 45/2001 -A18 : paragraph 109
• Regulation 45/2001 -C15 : paragraph 99
• Regulation 1049/2001 : paragraphs 90, 100, 105, 116, 129, 145
• Regulation 1049/2001 -A02 : paragraphs 106, 107, 138
• Regulation 1049/2001 -A04 : paragraph 93
• Regulation 1049/2001 -A04P1LB : paragraphs 91, 95, 96, 98, 108 - 110, 116, 117, 120, 128, 133, 135, 138, 157
• Regulation 1049/2001 -A04P2T3 : paragraphs 91, 95, 140 - 142, 147 - 149, 153, 157
• Regulation 1049/2001 -A04P3 : paragraph 142
• Regulation 1049/2001 -A06P1 : paragraphs 92, 107
• Regulation 1049/2001 -C11 : paragraph 102
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -145/83 : paragraph 154
• Court of Justice - Order C -29/92 : paragraph 54
• General Court - Order T -182/97 : paragraph 55
• General Court - Judgment T -309/97 : paragraphs 145, 149
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -174/98 : paragraph 94
• General Court - Judgment T -188/98 : paragraph 151
• General Court - Judgment T -20/99 : paragraph 145
• General Court - Judgment T -204/99 : paragraph 47
• General Court - Judgment T -211/00 : paragraph 94
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -465/00 : paragraphs 111, 127, 128
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -101/01 : paragraph 129
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -353/01 : paragraph 47
• General Court - Order T -139/02 : paragraphs 54, 55
• General Court - Judgment T -2/03 : paragraph 151
• General Court - Judgment T -391/03 : paragraphs 92, 94, 148, 151
• General Court - Order T -247/04 : paragraphs 54, 57
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -317/04 : paragraphs 115, 118

Operative part

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Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 27/05/2004

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

08/11/2007

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 201 from 07.08.2004, p.21

Judgment: OJ C 315 from 22.12.2007, p.33

Name of the parties

Bavarian Lager v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Simon, Denys: Accès à des données nominatives et respect de la confidentialité et de la vie privée, Europe 2008 Janvier Comm. nº 3 p.12-13 (FR)
2. Overkleeft-Verburg, G.: Jurisprudentie bestuursrecht 2008 nº 21 (NL)
3. Kranenborg, H.R.: S.E.W. ; Sociaal-economische wetgeving 2008 p.161-162 (NL)
4. Muguet-Poullennec, Gwenaël: Protection de la vie privée, données nominatives et transparence, Revue Lamy de la Concurrence : droit, économie, régulation 2008 nº 15 p.78-80 (FR)
5. Guichot, Emilio: Un paso decisivo en la clarificación de las relaciones entre derecho de acceso y derecho a la protección de datos: la Sentencia del TPI de 8 de noviembre de 2007, Bavarian Lager/Comisión, T-194/04, Revista española de Derecho Europeo 2008 nº 27 p.329-345 (ES)
6. González Vaqué, Luis: El TJUE precisa el alcance de la protección de los datos personales en el marco del acceso a los documentos de las instituciones de la UE: la sentencia "Comisión / Bavarian Lager", Unión Europea Aranzadi 2010 nº 18 p.9-18 (ES)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

• Free movement of goods
  
• - Quantitative restrictions
  
• - Measures having equivalent effect
  
• Provisions governing the institutions
  
• - Access to documents
  
• Data protection
  

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

• Actions for annulment : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility
  
• Actions for annulment : application granted
  

Formation of the Court

troisième chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Tiili

Advocate General

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Language(s) of the Case

• English
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

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