Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2011 - Valero Jordana v Commission
(Access to documents - Regulation(EC) No 1049/2001- Reserve list for an open competition and individual decisions concerning the appointment of officials - Refusal of access - Exception concerning privacy and the integrity of the individual - Protection of personal data - Regulation (EC) No 45/2001)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicant: Gregorio Valero Jordana (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: M. Merola, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: P. Aalto and E. Adserá Ribera, later by: E. Adserá Ribera and P. Costa de Oliveira, Agents)
Interveners in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Denmark (represented by: B. Weis Fogh and J. Jørgensen Søren, Agents); Kingdom of Sweden (represented initially by: A. Kruse and K. Norman, later by: A. Falk, S. Johannesson, K. Petkovska and C. Meyer-Seitz, Agents); and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) (represented by: H. Hijmans, H. Kranenborg and R. Barceló, Agents)
Re:
Annulment of the decision of the Commission of 10 February 2004 refusing the applicant' request for access to the reserve list for open competition A7/A6 COM/A/637 and the individual decisions appointing officials in Grade A 6 from 5 October 1995.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the decision of the Commission of the European Communities of 10 February 2004 refusing to give Mr Gregorio Valero Jordana access to the reserve list for open competition A7/A6 COM/A/637 and the individual decisions appointing officials in Grade A 6 from 5 October 1995 ;
Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay Mr Valero Jordana's costs;
Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to bear its own costs;
Orders the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) to bear his own costs
Removes the Kingdom of Denmark as an intervener in Case T-161/04;
Orders the Kingdom of Denmark to bear its own costs;
Orders Mr Valero Jordana, the Commission, the Kingdom of Sweden and the EDPS to bear their own costs in regard to the Kingdom of Denmark's intervention.
____________1 - OJ C 168, 26.06.2004.