1. 

EU institutions — Right of public access to documents — Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access to documents — Protection of privacy and integrity of the individual — Scope — Obligation to assess in conformity with EU legislation on the protection of personal data — Whether provisions of Regulation No 45/2001 are applicable in their entirety to requests to obtain access to documents including personal data

(European Parliament and Council Regulations No 45/2001, Art. 8, and No 1049/2001, Art. 4(1)(b))

(see paras 35, 36)

2. 

EU institutions — Right of public access to documents — Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access to documents — Protection of privacy and integrity of the individual — Scope — Professional activities of an individual — Included

(European Parliament and Council Regulations No 45/2001, Recital 7 and Art. 2(a), and No 1049/2001, Art. 4(1)(b))

(see paras 38, 44)

3. 

EU institutions — Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data — Regulation No 45/2001 — Processing of personal data — Meaning — Communication of personal data by the disclosure of a document under the access to documents scheme — Included

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 45/2001, Art. 2(b))

(see para. 39)

4. 

EU institutions — Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data — Regulation No 45/2001 — Request for access to personal data — Obligation to establish the need to transfer those data — Scope

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 45/2001, Art. 8(b))

(see paras 41, 42)

5. 

EU institutions — Right of public access to documents — Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access to documents — Protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Scope — Application to administrative files relating to procedures for reviewing State aid — General presumption that the exception applies to the right of access to all the documents on the administrative file — Limits — Rebuttal of that presumption — Requirement to rely on circumstances such as to establish the existence of an overriding interest which outweighs the reasons justifying refusal of access

(Art. 108(2) TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(2), 3rd indent; Council Regulation No 2015/1589, Arts 6(2) and 24)

(see paras 56-63, 103, 104)

6. 

EU institutions — Right of public access to documents — Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access to documents — Protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Scope — Application to Commission investigation seeking to obtain information from all the Member States for the purposes of examining the existing State aid schemes

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(2), 3rd indent; Council Regulation No 2015/1589, Arts 21 to 23)

(see paras 69-71, 75, 80, 81, 95)

7. 

EU institutions — Right of public access to documents — Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access to documents — Documents originating from a Member State — Refusal to grant access — Possibility to base the refusal on one of the absolute or relative exceptions to right of access — Need to consult the Member State concerned — None

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Arts 4(1), (2) and 5)

(see para. 109)

8. 

EU institutions — Right of public access to documents — Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access to documents — Public interest justifying the disclosure of documents — Invocation of the principle of transparency — Need to put forward particular considerations in relation to the case

(Art. 15(3), second para., TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 52(2); European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4(2), 3rd indent)

(see paras 111-114)

9. 

EU institutions — Right of public access to documents — Regulation No 1049/2001 — Exceptions to the right of access to documents — Refusal to grant access — Possibility of relying on general presumptions applicable to certain categories of documents — Obligation to examine individually all the documents covered by a global request for access — None

(European Parliament and Council Regulation No 1049/2001, Art. 4)

(see para. 120)

1. 

Dismisses the action;

2. 

Orders the Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) to pay the costs.