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Document 62005TA0144

Case T-144/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 2008 — Muñiz v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to a meeting of the Working Group of the  Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous) of the Customs Code Committee — Refusal of access — Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process)

OJ C 44, 21.2.2009, p. 41–42 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

21.2.2009   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 44/41


Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 2008 — Muñiz v Commission

(Case T-144/05) (1)

(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to a meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs Code Committee - Refusal of access - Exception relating to the protection of the decision-making process)

(2009/C 44/70)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Pablo Muñiz (Brussels, Belgium) (represented: initially by B. Dehandschutter, and subsequently by L. Defalque, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: P. Costa de Oliveira and I. Chatzigiannis, Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of the Commission's decision of 3 February 2005 refusing to grant access to certain documents relating to the September 2004 meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs Code Committee.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Annuls the Commission's decision of 3 February 2005 inasmuch as it refused access to documents, ‘TAXUD/1369/2003’ relating to home cinema, ‘TAXUD/974/2004’ relating to vehicles for dual use, ‘TAXUD/1342/2003’, ‘TAXUD/2465/2004’ and ‘TAXUD/2495/2004’ relating to power supply units, ‘XXI/770/1998’ relating to incomplete ADP machines, and to the minutes of the September 2004 meeting of the Working Group of the ‘Tariff and Statistical Nomenclature Section (Mechanical/Miscellaneous)’ of the Customs Code Committee (document ‘TAXUD/3010/2004 — Annex V’);

2.

Declares that there is no need to adjudicate on the remainder of the action;

3.

Orders the Commission to pay the costs incurred by Mr Pablo Muñiz.


(1)  OJ C 132, 28.5.2005.


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