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Document 62013TA0677

Case T-677/13: Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2015 — Axa Versicherung v Commission (Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents relating to a procedure pursuant to the competition rules — Request relating to a collection of documents — Refusal to grant access — Request relating to a single document — Table of contents — Obligation to undertake a concrete, individual examination — Exception relating to the protection of the commercial interests of a third party — Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits — Overriding public interest — Claim for damages — Obligation to state reasons)

IO C 279, 24.8.2015, p. 34–35 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

24.8.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 279/34


Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2015 — Axa Versicherung v Commission

(Case T-677/13) (1)

((Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to a procedure pursuant to the competition rules - Request relating to a collection of documents - Refusal to grant access - Request relating to a single document - Table of contents - Obligation to undertake a concrete, individual examination - Exception relating to the protection of the commercial interests of a third party - Exception relating to the protection of the purpose of inspections, investigations and audits - Overriding public interest - Claim for damages - Obligation to state reasons))

(2015/C 279/42)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Axa Versicherung AG (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: C. Bahr, S. Dethof and A. Malec, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Clotuche-Duvieusart and H. Krämer, acting as Agents, and by R. Van der Hout and A. Köhler, lawyers)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Saint-Gobain Sekurit Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany) (represented by: B. Meyring and E. Venot, lawyers)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2012/817 and 2012/3021 Gestdem of 29 October 2013, rejecting two requests for access to documents in the file of Case COMP/39.125 (Car glass).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Annuls Commission Decision 2012/817 and 2012/3021 Gestdem of 29 October 2013, rejecting two requests for access to documents in the file of Case COMP/39.125 (Car glass) in so far as it refuses to grant Axa Versicherung AG access to the ‘leniency documents’ included in the table of contents of that file;

2.

Dismisses the remainder of the action;

3.

Orders Axa Versicherung and the European Commission to each bear their own costs;

4.

Orders Saint-Gobain Sekurit Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG to bear its own costs.


(1)  OJ C 71, 8.3.2014.


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