Judgment of the General Court of 6 December 2012 - Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission
(Case T-167/10)
(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Requests for quotation - Refusal to grant access - Action for annulment - Period allowed for commencing proceedings - Point from which time starts to run - Admissibility - Exception relating to the protection of the economic policy of the European Union - Exception relating to the protection of the commercial interests of a third party - Exception relating to the protection of the public interest in the field of public security - Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE (Athens, Greece) (represented by: N. Korogiannakis and M. Dermitzakis, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: E. Manhaeve and C. ten Dam, Agents)
Re:
Application for (i) annulment of the Commission's decision of 27 January 2010 refusing access to the requests for quotation relating to Lot 3A of tendering procedure DIGIT/PO/2005/113 - ESP-DESIS (OJ 2005/S 252-248566) and (ii) annulment of the Commission's decision of 11 March 2010 refusing access to requests for quotation relating to all the other lots covered by that tendering procedure, all the lots covered by the tendering procedures DI/0005 ESP (OJ 2001/S 53-036539) and ADMIN/DI/2/PO/2003/192 ESP-DIMA (OJ 2003/S 249-221337) and by Framework Contract BUDG/0101.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the decision of the European Commission of 27 January 2010 refusing access to the requests for quotation relating to Lot 3A of tendering procedure DIGIT/PO/2005/113 - ESP-DESIS;
Annuls the Commission's decision of 11 March 2010 refusing access to requests for quotation relating to all the other lots covered by that tendering procedure, all the lots covered by the tendering procedures DI/0005 ESP and ADMIN/DI/2/PO/2003/192 ESP-DIMA and by Framework Contract BUDG/0101;
Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and the costs incurred by Evropaïki Dynamiki - Proigmena Systimata Tilepikoinonion Pliroforikis kai Tilematikis AE.
____________1 - OJ C 161, 19.6.2010.