Judgment of the General Court of 2 July 2015 — Typke v Commission

(Case T-214/13) ¹

(Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to competition EPSO/AD/230-231/12 — Implied refusal to grant access — Refusal to grant access — Request for modification of the form of order sought submitted in the reply — Time-limit — Withdrawal of the implied decision — No need to adjudicate — Concept of a document — Extraction and organisation of information contained in electronic databases)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Rainer Typke (Hasbergen, Germany) (represented by: B. Cortese and A. Salerno, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Eggers and F. Clotuche-Duvieusart, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment, first, of the decision of the Secretariat-General of the Commission of 5 February 2013 refusing the applicant’s initial application for access to documents relating to the preselection tests for the open competition EPSO/AD/230-231/12 (AD 5-AD 7) (Gestdem 2012/3258) and, secondly, of the implied decision of the Secretariat-General of the Commission, deemed to have been taken on 13 March 2013, refusing the applicant’s second application for access to documents relating to those tests (Gestdem 2013/0068).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the claim for annulment of the implied decision refusing access in procedure Gestdem 2013/0068;

Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

Orders Mr Rainer Typke to pay the costs.

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¹ OJ C 171, 15.6.2013.