Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2014 –Spirlea v Commission

(Case T-669/11) ¹

(Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Document emanating from Germany in the context of an EU Pilot procedure — Article 4(4) and (5) — Third indent of Article 4(2) — Refusal of access — Breach of essential procedural requirements — Obligation to carry out a concrete and individual examination — Partial access — Overriding public interest)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Darius Nicolai Spirlea and Mihaela Spirlea (Capezzano Pianore, Italy) (represented by: initially, V. Foerster and T. Pahl, and, subsequently, V. Foerster and E. George, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Costa de Oliveira and H. Kraemer, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 9 November 2011 refusing to allow the applicants access to the observations submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany to the Commission on 7 July 2011 in the context of EU Pilot procedure No 2070/11/SNCO.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Dismisses the action;

Orders each party to bear its own costs.

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¹ OJ C 65, 3.3.2012.