EU Court of Justice · 29 June 2010
Bavarian Lager (access to documents)
In plain English
When someone asks an EU institution for documents containing personal data, the data protection rules for EU institutions apply in full. The Commission could withhold names of meeting participants because the requester gave no express and legitimate reason for needing them.
What the court ruled
where a request based on Regulation No 1049/2001 seeks to obtain access to documents including personal data, the provisions of Regulation No 45/2001 become applicable in their entirety, including Articles 8 and 18 thereof.
Related
The official text is quoted word for word from the English version of the source named under it; only the version published in the court’s own records is authoritative. The plain-English line is Fino’s own summary, not legal advice.