Дело T-***/**: *****************, Съдебно решение от **.**.2021 г.

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... legal advice – First subparagraph of Article 4(3) of Regulation No 1049/2001 – Protection of the decision-making process – Refusal to grant full access to a legal opinion of the Council’s Legal Service)

In Case T‑252/19,

Laurent Pech, residing in London (United Kingdom), represented by O. Brouwer and T. McGrath, lawyers,

applicant,

supported by

Kingdom of Sweden, represented by O. Simonsson, C. Meyer-Seitz, A. Runeskjöld, J. Lundberg, M. Salborn Hodgson, H. Shev, H. Eklinder and R. Shahsavan Eriksson, acting as Agents,

intervener,

v

Council of the European Union, represented by K. Pavlaki and E. Rebasti, acting as Agents,

defendant,

APPLICATION under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the decision of the Council of 12 February 2019 refusing to grant full access to the opinion of its Legal Service contained in document ST 13593 2018 INIT concerning the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 May 2018 on the protection of the European Union’s budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States (COM(2018) 324 final),

THE GENERAL COURT (Second Chamber),

composed of V. Tomljenović, President, F. Schalin (Rapporteur) and I. Nõmm, Judges,

Registrar: P. Cullen, Administrator,

having regard to the written part of the procedure and further to the hearing on 16 November 2020,

gives the following

Judgment

Background to the dispute

1. The applicant, Mr Laurent Pech, is a French citizen who works as a Professor of European law at Middlesex University, London (United Kingdom). ...