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McCULLOUGH V. CEDEFOP (11.6.2015) (“McCULLOUGH”)
Summary
Personal data: Personal does not mean private. Surnames in minutes are personal data even where (i) the minutes refer to meetings in connection with the exercise of their public duties and not in the private sphere, and (ii) the surnames were published in the internet. (¶ 66)
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- Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 May 2018.#Republic of Malta v European Commission.#Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents held by the Commission — Documents originating from a Member State — Documents exchanged pursuant to the control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy — Article 113 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 — Public access following a request made by a non-governmental organisation — Action for annulment
- Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 May 2018.#Republic of Malta v European Commission.#Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents held by the Commission — Documents originating from a Member State — Documents exchanged pursuant to the control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy — Article 113 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 — Public access following a request made by a non-governmental organisation — Action for annulment
- Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 25 September 2018.#Maria Psara and Others v European Parliament.#Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — European Parliament — Expenditure by Members of the Parliament of their allowances — Refusal to grant access — Non-existent documents — Personal data — Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 — Need to transfer the data — Specific and individual examination — Partial access — Excessive administrative burden — Obligation to
- Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 25 September 2018.#Maria Psara and Others v European Parliament.#Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — European Parliament — Expenditure by Members of the Parliament of their allowances — Refusal to grant access — Non-existent documents — Personal data — Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 — Need to transfer the data — Specific and individual examination — Partial access — Excessive administrative burden — Obligation to
- Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 25 September 2018.#Maria Psara and Others v European Parliament.#Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — European Parliament — Expenditure by Members of the Parliament of their allowances — Refusal to grant access — Non-existent documents — Personal data — Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 — Need to transfer the data — Specific and individual examination — Partial access — Excessive administrative burden — Obligation to
- Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 3 May 2018.#Republic of Malta v European Commission.#Access to documents — Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 — Documents held by the Commission — Documents originating from a Member State — Documents exchanged pursuant to the control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy — Article 113 of Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 — Public access following a request made by a non-governmental organisation — Action for annulment
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Personal data: Personal does not mean private. Surnames in minutes are personal data even where (i) the minutes refer to meetings in connection with the exercise of their public duties and not in the private sphere, and (ii) the surnames were published in the internet. (¶ 66)
¶66 excerpt
It follows from the case-law of the Court of Justice that surnames are personal data and are therefore protected by the provisions of Regulation No 45/2001 (judgments in Commission v Bavarian Lager, cited in paragraph 41 above, EU:C:2010:378, paragraph 68, and Dennekamp v Parliament, cited in paragraph 41 above, EU:T:2011:688, paragraph 27). The fact that the members of Cedefop’s decision-making bodies participated in the meetings of those bodies in connection with the exercise of their public duties and not in the private sphere, or indeed the fact that the surnames of the members of the Governing Board and the Bureau were published in the Official Journal of the European Union or on the Internet, does not affect the characterisation of their surnames as personal data (see, to that effect and by analogy, judgment of 2 October 2014 in Strack v Commission, C‑127/13 P, ECR, EU:C.2014:2250, paragraph 111).
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