Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2015 — Axa Versicherung v Commission
(Case T-677/13) 1
(Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to a procedure pursuant to the competition rules –Request relating to a collection of documents — Refusal to grant access — Request relating to a single document — Table of contents — Obligation to undertake a concrete, individual examination — Exception relating to the protection of the commercial interests of a third party — Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Overriding public interest — Claim for damages — Obligation to state reasons)
Language of the case: German
Parties
Applicant: Axa Versicherung AG (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: C. Bahr, S. Dethof and A. Malec, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and H. Krämer, acting as Agents, and by R. Van der Hout and A. Köhler, lawyers)
Intervener in support of the defendant: Saint-Gobain Sekurit Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany) (represented by: B. Meyring and E. Venot, lawyers)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2012/817 and 2012/3021 Gestdem of 29 October 2013, rejecting two requests for access to documents in the file of Case COMP/39.125 (Car glass).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls Commission Decision 2012/817 and 2012/3021 Gestdem of 29 October 2013, rejecting two requests for access to documents in the file of Case COMP/39.125 (Car glass) in so far as it refuses to grant Axa Versicherung AG access to the ‘leniency documents’ included in the table of contents of that file;
Dismisses the remainder of the action;
Orders Axa Versicherung and the European Commission to each bear their own costs;
4. Orders Saint-Gobain Sekurit Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG to bear its own costs.
____________1 OJ C 71, 8.3.2014.