Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/2559

12.5.2025

(Case T-132/25)

(C/2025/2559)

Language of the case: Dutch

Parties

Applicant: Martijn Frederik Nouwen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) (represented by: M. Weijers, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—annul Commission Decision C(2024)8620 final of 28 November 2024, by which the Commission unilaterally restricted his application for disclosure and decided not to disclose the acronyms of the Member States on the basis of the fourth indent of Article 4(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (<span class="oj-super oj-note-tag">1</span>) (‘the Transparency Regulation’);

—order the Commission to pay the applicant’s costs under Article 134 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, including the costs of interveners, as the case may be.

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of the action, the applicant relies on two pleas in law.

The Commission incorrectly and unilaterally restricted his application and, in any event, failed to provide adequate reasons for doing so.

The applicant argues, first, that he did not agree to the restriction of his application, and secondly, that that application was incorrectly restricted unilaterally.

The Commission incorrectly failed to disclose the acronyms of the Member States and, in any event, did not provide adequate reasons for doing so.

The applicant argues, first, that the derogation referred to by the Commission, laid down in the fourth indent of Article 4(1)(a) of the Transparency Regulation, is not applicable and, secondly, that partial disclosure of the acronyms of only some Member States is not possible.

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(1) OJ 2001 L 145, p. 43.

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2559/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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