Kathleen Egan and Margaret Hackett v European Parliament
The General Court (Fifth Chamber) ruled on whether the European Parliament could refuse access to public registers of assistants to former MEPs under the privacy exception in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001.
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Judgment·Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 March 2012·Fifth Chamber
The Court held that documents once accessible to the public but no longer accessible still fall within the scope of the privacy exception, requiring the institution to examine each document specifically and individually and to provide adequate reasoning for refusal. The Court annulled Parliament's refusal decision because it failed to carry out the required specific and individual examination of the requested documents.
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Operative part The Court: 1. Annuls the decision of the European Parliament of 12 February 2010 in so far as it refuses to grant Kathleen Egan and Margaret Hackett the access requested to the public registers of assistants to former members of the European Parliament; 2. Orders the Parliament to pay the costs incurred by Mrs Egan and Mrs Hackett and to refund to the Court cashier the sums advanced by way of legal aid granted to Mrs Egan; 3. Orders the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) to bear its own costs.