Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2014 –Ntouvas v ECDC

(Case T-223/12) ¹

(Access to documents —  — Article 4(2), third indent — Final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Commission’s Internal Audit Service — Refusal of access — Obligation to state reasons — Obligation to undertake a concrete, individual examination — Overriding public interest)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Ioannis Ntouvas (Agios Stefanos, Greece) (represented: by E. Mylonas, and V. Kolias, lawyers)

Defendant: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (represented: initially by R. Trott, and subsequently by J. Mannheim and A. Daume, acting as Agents, assisted by D. Waelbroeck and A. Duron, lawyers)

Re:

Application for annulment of the decision of the ECDC of 27 March 2012 (DIR-12-0636-MSrukr) refusing the applicant access to the final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Annuls the decision of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) of 27 March 2012 (DIR-12-0636-MSrukr) refusing Mr Ioannis Ntouvas access to the final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission;

Orders the ECDC to pay the costs.

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¹ OJ C 227, 28.7.2012.