(Case T-223/12)(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Article 4(2), third indent - Final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Commission’s Internal Audit Service - Refusal of access - Obligation to state reasons - Obligation to undertake a concrete, individual examination - Overriding public interest)
(2015/C 007/32)
Language of the case: English
Applicant: Ioannis Ntouvas (Agios Stefanos, Greece) (represented: by E. Mylonas, and V. Kolias, lawyers)
Defendant: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (represented: initially by R. Trott, and subsequently by J. Mannheim and A. Daume, acting as Agents, assisted by D. Waelbroeck and A. Duron, lawyers)
Application for annulment of the decision of the ECDC of 27 March 2012 (DIR-12-0636-MSrukr) refusing the applicant access to the final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission.
The Court:
1)Annuls the decision of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) of 27 March 2012 (DIR-12-0636-MSrukr) refusing Mr Ioannis Ntouvas access to the final audit reports carried out on the ECDC by the Internal Audit Service of the European Commission;
2)Orders the ECDC to pay the costs.
Language of the case: English.
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(1) OJ C 227, 28.7.2012.