25.11.2019

Official Journal of the European Union

C 399/42

(Case T-433/17) (<span class="super note-tag">1</span>)

(Access to documents - Court of Justice of the European Union - Documents held by an institution in the exercise of its administrative functions - Application for access submitted by a former judge of the General Court - Partial refusal of access - Non-contractual liability of the European Union)

(2019/C 399/50)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Franklin Dehousse (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: L. Levi and S. Rodrigues, lawyers)

Defendant: Court of Justice of the European Union (represented by: J. Inghelram, Á. Almendros Manzano and V. Hanley-Emilsson, acting as Agents)

Re:

First, application based on Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 18 and 22 May 2017 rejecting the applications for access to certain documents, submitted by the applicant on 27 January 2017 and 14 December 2016 respectively, and, second, application based on Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation for the non-material damage the applicant claims to have suffered as a result of the alleged misconduct on the part of the Court of Justice of the European Union when it refused to grant his applications for access to information, submitted between 15 July and 10 August 2016.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Annuls the decision of 18 May 2017 which rejected the second confirmatory application for access to certain documents made by Mr Franklin Dehousse, to the extent that that decision refused access to ‘exchanges, in both directions, between President Skouris, or his Head of Cabinet, and all German public authorities between 2011 and 2015 inclusive’;

2.Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

3.Orders each party to bear its own costs.

(<span class="note"> <a id="ntr1-C_2019399EN.01004202-E0001" href="#ntc1-C_2019399EN.01004202-E0001">*1</a> </span>) OJ C 300, 11.9.2017.