Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 January 2021 – Päivi Leino-Sandberg v European Parliament

(Case C-761/18 P) ¹

(Appeal – Access to documents of the EU institutions – Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – Article 10 – Refusal to grant access – Action before the General Court of the European Union against a decision by the European Parliament refusing to grant access to a document – Disclosure of the annotated document by a third party after the action was lodged – Order that there was no need to adjudicate pronounced by the General Court on the ground that was no longer any interest in bringing proceedings – Error of law)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Appellant: Päivi Leino-Sandberg (represented by: O.W. Brouwer and B.A. Verheijen, advocaten, and by S. Schubert, Rechtsanwalt)

Other party to the proceedings: European Parliament (represented by: C. Burgos, I. Anagnostopoulou and L. Vétillard, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the applicant: Republic of Finland (represented by: M. Pere, acting as Agent), Kingdom of Sweden (represented: initially by A. Falk, C. Meyer-Seitz, H. Shev, J. Lundberg and H. Eklinder, and subsequently by C. Meyer-Seitz, H. Shev and H. Eklinder, acting as Agents)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Sets aside the order of the General Court of the European Union of 20 September 2018, Leino-Sandberg v Parliament (T-421/17, not published, EU:T:2018:628);

Refers the case back to the General Court of the European Union;

Reserves the costs.

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¹ OJ C 82, 4.3.2019.