Order of the President of the General Court of 15 December 2023 – Shopper Union France and Azalbert v Commission

(Case T-1071/23 R)

(Interim relief – Access to documents – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Procurement contracts of vaccines against COVID-19 – Refusal to grant access – Application for interim measures – Lack of any urgency)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: Shopper Union France (Paris, France), Xavier Azalbert (Garches, France) (represented by: D. Protat, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Burón Pérez, S. Ciubotaru and F. van Schaik, acting as Agents)

Re:

By their application based on Articles 278 and 279 TFEU, the applicants request that the European Commission be ordered, by way of interim measures, to publish the non-redacted versions of all the procurement contracts of vaccines against COVID-19 concluded between it and three pharmaceutical companies on its internet website, that is to say, a complete, unredacted version, subject to a penalty of 100 000 euros for each day’s delay after service on the parties of the decision to be taken.

Operative part of the order

1.    The application for interim measures is dismissed;

2.    The costs are reserved.

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