26.11.2018   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 427/60


Judgment of the General Court of 9 October 2018 — Erdősi Galcsikné v Commission

(Case T-632/17) (1)

(Access to documents - Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - Documents relating to EU Pilot procedure No 8572/16 CHAP(2015) 00353 - Refusal of access - Article 4(2) third indent of Regulation No 1049/2001 - Exception relating to protection of the purpose of investigations - General presumption of confidentiality - Overriding public interest)

(2018/C 427/78)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Éva Erdősi Galcsikné (Budapest, Hungary) (represented by: D. Lazar, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Erlbacher and C. Ehrbar, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the defendant: Hungary (represented by: M. Fehér, G. Koós and M. Tátrai, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of the decisions of the Commission of 1 June and 17 July 2017 refusing to grant the applicant access to documents relating to EU Pilot procedure No 8572/16 CHAP(2015) 00353.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders Éva Erdősi Galcsikné to bear her own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;

3.

Orders Hungary to bear its own costs.


(1)  OJ C 382, 13.11.2017.