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of the Court","paragraphs":[]},{"title":"93","paragraphs":["para_225"]},{"title":"94","paragraphs":["para_227"]},{"title":"95","paragraphs":["para_229"]},{"title":"96","paragraphs":["para_231"]},{"title":"97","paragraphs":["para_233"]},{"title":"98","paragraphs":["para_235"]},{"title":"99","paragraphs":["para_237"]},{"title":"100","paragraphs":["para_239"]},{"title":"101","paragraphs":["para_241"]},{"title":"102","paragraphs":["para_243"]},{"title":"103","paragraphs":["para_245"]},{"title":"104","paragraphs":["para_247"]},{"title":"105","paragraphs":["para_249"]},{"title":"The balance of interests","paragraphs":[]},{"title":"Arguments","paragraphs":[]},{"title":"106","paragraphs":["para_253"]},{"title":"107","paragraphs":["para_255"]},{"title":"108","paragraphs":["para_257"]},{"title":"109","paragraphs":["para_259"]},{"title":"110","paragraphs":["para_261"]},{"title":"111","paragraphs":["para_263"]},{"title":"Findings of the Court","paragraphs":[]},{"title":"112","paragraphs":["para_266"]},{"title":"113","paragraphs":["para_268"]},{"title":"114","paragraphs":["para_270"]},{"title":"115","paragraphs":["para_272"]},{"title":"116","paragraphs":["para_274"]},{"title":"Costs","paragraphs":[]},{"title":"117","paragraphs":["para_277"]},{"title":"On those grounds, the Vice-President of the Court of Justice hereby orders:","paragraphs":["para_279","para_280","para_281","para_282","para_283","para_284","para_285"]}],"paragraphs":[{"text":"62024CO0632","paragraph_id":"para_1"},{"text":"ORDER OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COURT","paragraph_id":"para_2"},{"text":"4 February 2025 (\n *1\n )","paragraph_id":"para_3"},{"text":"(Appeal – Interim relief – Article 278 TFEU – Application for suspension of operation of a judgment of the General Court of the European Union – Access to documents of the European Commission – Declarations of absence of conflict of interests given by members of the Commission negotiating team for the purchase of vaccines against COVID-19 – Commission decision refusing access to the identity and professional status of those persons)","paragraph_id":"para_4"},{"text":"In Case C‑632/24 P-R,","paragraph_id":"para_5"},{"text":"APPLICATION for suspension of operation pursuant to Article 278 TFEU, lodged on 27 September 2024,","paragraph_id":"para_6"},{"text":"European\n Commission , represented by A. Bouchagiar, M. Burón Pérez, G. Gattinara and A. Spina, acting as Agents,","paragraph_id":"para_7"},{"text":"appellant,","paragraph_id":"para_8"},{"text":"the other parties to the proceedings being:","paragraph_id":"para_9"},{"text":"Fabien Courtois , and the other parties whose names appear in the annex, (\n 1\n ) represented by A. Durand, avocat,","paragraph_id":"para_10"},{"text":"applicants at first instance,","paragraph_id":"para_11"},{"text":"THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COURT,","paragraph_id":"para_12"},{"text":"after hearing the Advocate General, M. Szpunar,","paragraph_id":"para_13"},{"text":"makes the following","paragraph_id":"para_14"},{"text":"Order","paragraph_id":"para_15"},{"text":"1","paragraph_id":"para_16"},{"text":"By its application for interim measures, the European Commission asks the Court of Justice to order, pursuant to Article 278 TFEU, the suspension of operation of point 2 of the operative part of the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 17 July 2024, Courtois and Others v Commission …","paragraph_id":"para_17"},{"text":"2","paragraph_id":"para_18"},{"text":"That application has been made in parallel with an appeal brought by the Commission on 27 September 2024, pursuant to Article 56 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, seeking to have the judgment under appeal set aside.","paragraph_id":"para_19"},{"text":"Background to the dispute","paragraph_id":"para_20"},{"text":"3","paragraph_id":"para_21"},{"text":"The background to the dispute is set out in paragraphs 2 to 17 of the judgment under appeal. For the purposes of the present proceedings, it can be summarised as follows.","paragraph_id":"para_22"},{"text":"4","paragraph_id":"para_23"},{"text":"On 17 June 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission published the Communication entitled ‘EU Strategy for COVID-19 vaccines’ (COM(2020) 245 final). That strategy, which was aimed at speeding up the development, manufacturing and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, was based on two …","paragraph_id":"para_24"},{"text":"5","paragraph_id":"para_25"},{"text":"From that perspective, the Commission stated that Member States would participate in the process from the start and that all participating Member States would be represented in a steering board, which would assist on all aspects of the advance purchase agreements before signature. The Commission als …","paragraph_id":"para_26"},{"text":"6","paragraph_id":"para_27"},{"text":"On 24 May 2021, by a letter addressed to the President of the Commission and by email of the same date to the Secretariat-General of the Commission, two lawyers requested, ‘on behalf of the 86000 first petitioners of the platform “https://dejavu/legal/”’ whom they represented and among whom were the …","paragraph_id":"para_28"},{"text":"7","paragraph_id":"para_29"},{"text":"That initial request related to the purchase agreements signed by the Commission with the vaccine manufacturers, the identity and professional or institutional role of the EU representatives who had taken part in the negotiations with those manufacturers, and the declarations of direct or indirect interests between those representatives and those manufacturers.","paragraph_id":"para_30"},{"text":"8","paragraph_id":"para_31"},{"text":"On 30 July 2021, the Director-General of the Directorate-General (DG) for Health and Food Safety of the Commission replied that she had identified 46 documents corresponding to that request, 22 of which were declarations of absence of conflict of interests (‘the declarations of absence of conflict of interests’), and that partial access was granted to all of those documents, with the exception of 17 documents called ‘draft term sheets’.","paragraph_id":"para_32"},{"text":"9","paragraph_id":"para_33"},{"text":"As regards the declarations of absence of conflict of interests, the identity of their signatory was redacted on the basis of the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual, provided for in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001. In addition, only a single copy was sent to the applicants, on the ground that those documents differed only with respect to the name of the signatory, the signature and the date of signature.","paragraph_id":"para_34"},{"text":"10","paragraph_id":"para_35"},{"text":"On 13 August 2021, the applicants submitted, on the basis of Article 7(2) of Regulation No 1049/2001, a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to reconsider its position with regard to all the documents to which they had been refused access, either in part or in full.","paragraph_id":"para_36"},{"text":"11","paragraph_id":"para_37"},{"text":"On 24 September 2021, the absence of a response to that application gave rise to an implied rejection decision, in accordance with Article 8(3) of Regulation No 1049/2001.","paragraph_id":"para_38"},{"text":"12","paragraph_id":"para_39"},{"text":"On 28 February 2022, and after consulting the pharmaceutical undertakings concerned in accordance with Article 4(4) of Regulation No 1049/2001, the Commission adopted the decision at issue, which was notified to the applicants in English on 1 March 2022. In particular, in that decision, the Commissi …","paragraph_id":"para_40"},{"text":"13","paragraph_id":"para_41"},{"text":"On 31 March 2022, the French-language version of the decision at issue was communicated to the applicants.","paragraph_id":"para_42"},{"text":"The procedure before the General Court and the judgment under appeal","paragraph_id":"para_43"},{"text":"14","paragraph_id":"para_44"},{"text":"By application lodged at the Registry of the General Court on 6 December 2021, the applicants brought an action for the annulment of the implied rejection decision. They subsequently amended their heads of claim so as to refer also to the decision at issue and the French-language version of that decision.","paragraph_id":"para_45"},{"text":"15","paragraph_id":"para_46"},{"text":"In paragraph 57 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court recalled that, as is clear from the case-law of the Court of Justice, personal data may be transmitted to a third party on the basis of Regulation No 1049/2001 only where that transmission fulfils the conditions laid down in Article 9(1 …","paragraph_id":"para_47"},{"text":"16","paragraph_id":"para_48"},{"text":"As regards the condition set out in Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725, according to which the person requesting access to personal data must establish that their disclosure is necessary for a specific purpose in the public interest, the General Court found, in paragraphs 68, 69, 79 and 85 of t …","paragraph_id":"para_49"},{"text":"17","paragraph_id":"para_50"},{"text":"In paragraph 79 of the judgment under appeal, as regards the weighing up of the interests involved provided for in Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725, the General Court held that as the applicants had demonstrated the need for the transfer of the personal data and the Commission correctly considered that there was a risk that the privacy of the members of the negotiation team concerned would be harmed, the Commission was required to weigh up the interests involved.","paragraph_id":"para_51"},{"text":"18","paragraph_id":"para_52"},{"text":"In that regard, in paragraph 80 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court observed that, as was clear from the decision at issue, the Commission had taken into consideration, first, the technical role in the award process played by the members of the negotiation team and, second, the fact that …","paragraph_id":"para_53"},{"text":"19","paragraph_id":"para_54"},{"text":"In paragraph 81 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court found that, in so doing, the Commission had not explained how the fact that the role of the members of the negotiation team was solely technical should take precedence over the objective of ascertaining the absence of any conflict of in …","paragraph_id":"para_55"},{"text":"20","paragraph_id":"para_56"},{"text":"In paragraphs 83 and 84 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court found that, while the applicants were aware of, inter alia, the content of the declaration of absence of conflict of interests signed by each member of the negotiation team, the specific purpose in the public interest pursued by …","paragraph_id":"para_57"},{"text":"21","paragraph_id":"para_58"},{"text":"In paragraph 85 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court concluded that the Commission had failed to take the various circumstances of the present case sufficiently into account in order to weigh up correctly the interests involved.","paragraph_id":"para_59"},{"text":"22","paragraph_id":"para_60"},{"text":"Accordingly, as is clear from point 2 of the operative part of the judgment under appeal, the General Court annulled the decision at issue and the French-language version thereof, in so far as, inter alia, the Commission had refused to grant the applicants wider access to the declarations of absence of conflict of interests, on the basis of Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001.","paragraph_id":"para_61"},{"text":"Forms of order sought","paragraph_id":"para_62"},{"text":"23","paragraph_id":"para_63"},{"text":"The Commission asks the Court of Justice to:","paragraph_id":"para_64"},{"text":"–","paragraph_id":"para_65"},{"text":"order the suspension of operation of point 2 of the operative part of the judgment under appeal, in so far as it annuls the decision at issue, and the French-language version thereof, as regards the refusal by the Commission to grant wider access to the declarations of absence of conflict of interests, until delivery of the final judgment closing the appeal proceedings against that judgment, and","paragraph_id":"para_66"},{"text":"–","paragraph_id":"para_67"},{"text":"order the applicants to pay the costs.","paragraph_id":"para_68"},{"text":"24","paragraph_id":"para_69"},{"text":"The applicants contend that the Court should:","paragraph_id":"para_70"},{"text":"–","paragraph_id":"para_71"},{"text":"dismiss the application for interim measures;","paragraph_id":"para_72"},{"text":"–","paragraph_id":"para_73"},{"text":"in the alternative, reject that application in so far as it concerns solely the request for access made by Mr Courtois;","paragraph_id":"para_74"},{"text":"–","paragraph_id":"para_75"},{"text":"dismiss all other claims of the Commission, and","paragraph_id":"para_76"},{"text":"–","paragraph_id":"para_77"},{"text":"order the Commission to pay the costs or, in the alternative, reserve the costs.","paragraph_id":"para_78"},{"text":"The application for interim measures","paragraph_id":"para_79"},{"text":"25","paragraph_id":"para_80"},{"text":"It should be recalled that, although, under Article 60 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, an appeal against a judgment of the General Court does not, in principle, have suspensory effect, the Court of Justice may, pursuant to Article 278 TFEU, if it considers that the circ …","paragraph_id":"para_81"},{"text":"26","paragraph_id":"para_82"},{"text":"In accordance with Article 160(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, applications for suspension of the operation of a measure adopted by an EU institution pursuant to Article 278 TFEU must state the subject matter of the proceedings, the circumstances giving rise to urgency and the pleas of fact and law establishing a prima facie case for the interim measure applied for.","paragraph_id":"para_83"},{"text":"27","paragraph_id":"para_84"},{"text":"Accordingly, the court hearing an application for interim measures may order interim relief only if it is established that such an order is justified, prime facie, in fact and in law ( fumus boni juris ) and that it is urgent in so far as, in order to avoid serious and irreparable damage to the inte …","paragraph_id":"para_85"},{"text":"The prima facie case","paragraph_id":"para_86"},{"text":"Arguments","paragraph_id":"para_87"},{"text":"–  Arguments of the Commission","paragraph_id":"para_88"},{"text":"28","paragraph_id":"para_89"},{"text":"The Commission maintains that the condition relating to a prima facie case is satisfied.","paragraph_id":"para_90"},{"text":"29","paragraph_id":"para_91"},{"text":"The Commission considers that, in the judgment under appeal, the General Court incorrectly interpreted and applied the conditions laid down in Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725.","paragraph_id":"para_92"},{"text":"30","paragraph_id":"para_93"},{"text":"As regards the condition laid down in that provision which requires the party seeking access to documents to demonstrate the need to transmit personal data for a specific purpose in the public interest, it submits that, first of all, the General Court distorted the initial request for access as well …","paragraph_id":"para_94"},{"text":"31","paragraph_id":"para_95"},{"text":"It submits, next, that the General Court, in any event, wrongly considered that that objective was a specific purpose in the public interest, within the meaning of Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725.","paragraph_id":"para_96"},{"text":"32","paragraph_id":"para_97"},{"text":"It argues, lastly, that the General Court wrongly held, in paragraph 73 of the judgment under appeal, that the applicants had established the need for the transmission of the personal data in question, namely the surnames, forenames and professional or institutional roles of the members of the negotiation team, in order to attain the objective pursued.","paragraph_id":"para_98"},{"text":"33","paragraph_id":"para_99"},{"text":"In that regards, the Commission observes that it results from the Court’s case-law, in particular the judgment of 21 March 2024, Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden ( C‑61/22 , EU:C:2024:251 ), that the person requesting access to personal data must demonstrate that the transmission of those data is the most appropriate of the possible measures for attaining the objective pursued, which the General Court moreover recalled in paragraph 60 of the judgment under appeal.","paragraph_id":"para_100"},{"text":"34","paragraph_id":"para_101"},{"text":"However, in paragraph 84 of the judgment under appeal, the General Court found merely that the disclosure to the applicants of the surnames and forenames of the members of the negotiation team was necessary to attain the objective pursued without stating whether that was the only conceivable means of doing so.","paragraph_id":"para_102"},{"text":"35","paragraph_id":"para_103"},{"text":"The Commission adds that, in any event, the transmission to the applicants, in an anonymised form, of the declarations of absence of conflict of interests already permitted the objective to be attained, even if the identity of the signatories of those documents was redacted. As a result of that tran …","paragraph_id":"para_104"},{"text":"36","paragraph_id":"para_105"},{"text":"As regards the condition, also laid down in Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725, that the institution concerned must determine that there is no reason to assume that the transmission might prejudice the legitimate interests of the data subject and, in such a case, demonstrably weigh up the vario …","paragraph_id":"para_106"},{"text":"37","paragraph_id":"para_107"},{"text":"It submits that that analysis requires, as the Court of Justice held in relation to limitations that may be made on the rights derived from Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’) to weigh up, on the one hand, the seriousness of the interference th …","paragraph_id":"para_108"},{"text":"38","paragraph_id":"para_109"},{"text":"According to the Commission, the disclosure of the identity of the members of the negotiation team would be a particularly serious interference in their privacy, by exposing them inter alia to unsolicited external contacts as a result of the sensitive nature of the subject of the manufacture of COVI …","paragraph_id":"para_110"},{"text":"39","paragraph_id":"para_111"},{"text":"The Commission adds that that situation would seriously undermine its capacity and that of the Member States to have recourse, in the future, to their staff for the negotiation and conclusion of such contracts.","paragraph_id":"para_112"},{"text":"40","paragraph_id":"para_113"},{"text":"By contrast, since the members of that team do not occupy a high hierarchical position within the institution and have had only a purely technical role in the negotiation procedure, the objective pursued of ascertaining their impartiality is of less importance than if it concerned persons who had real decision-making power in that procedure.","paragraph_id":"para_114"},{"text":"41","paragraph_id":"para_115"},{"text":"Moreover, that objective cannot justify as serious an interference in the private life of those persons as that which would result from the disclosure of their identity.","paragraph_id":"para_116"},{"text":"42","paragraph_id":"para_117"},{"text":"Lastly, that objective has already been largely achieved by the disclosure of anonymised declarations of absence of conflict of interest.","paragraph_id":"para_118"},{"text":"43","paragraph_id":"para_119"},{"text":"The Commission adds, referring to the principles identified by the Court in the judgment of 22 November 2022, Luxembourg Business Registers ( C‑37/20 and C‑601/20 , EU:C:2022:912 , paragraphs  65 and  83 ), that the General Court should have taken into account the fact that the review of the absence …","paragraph_id":"para_120"},{"text":"44","paragraph_id":"para_121"},{"text":"Consequently, disclosure of the identity of the members of the negotiation team would constitute a disproportionate interference with the protection of their privacy.","paragraph_id":"para_122"},{"text":"45","paragraph_id":"para_123"},{"text":"Therefore, the General Court was wrong to hold, in paragraph 85 of the judgment under appeal, that the Commission had not correctly weighed up the interests involved.","paragraph_id":"para_124"},{"text":"–  Arguments submitted by the applicants","paragraph_id":"para_125"},{"text":"46","paragraph_id":"para_126"},{"text":"The applicants submit that the condition relating to a prima facie case is not satisfied since the Commission does not rely on any ground of appeal that appears not unfounded to challenge the judgment under appeal.","paragraph_id":"para_127"},{"text":"47","paragraph_id":"para_128"},{"text":"As regards the distortion of evidence alleged by the Commission, they submit, referring to the judgment of 16 February 2023, Commission v Italy and Spain ( C‑635/20 P , EU:C:2023:98 , paragraph  127 ), that a distortion of the evidence arises where the General Court has manifestly exceeded the limit …","paragraph_id":"para_129"},{"text":"48","paragraph_id":"para_130"},{"text":"As regards the errors of law allegedly committed by the General Court in its interpretation of Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725, they submit, first of all, that the General Court was fully entitled to conclude that the objective pursued of ascertaining the impartiality of the members of the negotiation team constitutes a specific purpose in the public interest, within the meaning of that provision.","paragraph_id":"para_131"},{"text":"49","paragraph_id":"para_132"},{"text":"In that regard, they contend that the Commission cannot simultaneously, on the one hand, submit that the purpose in question is not of ‘public interest’ and, on the other hand, recognise that ascertaining the impartiality of the members is ‘in the public interest’. Similarly, its line of argument is …","paragraph_id":"para_133"},{"text":"50","paragraph_id":"para_134"},{"text":"They submit, next, that, contrary to the Commission’s allegations, disclosure of the identity of the members of the negotiation team who signed the declarations of absence of conflict of interest is necessary in order to make it possible to ascertain their impartiality and they add that the names of numerous persons acting in a private or public capacity on ‘the same file’ are, moreover, already publicly available.","paragraph_id":"para_135"},{"text":"51","paragraph_id":"para_136"},{"text":"Lastly, they submit that the General Court clearly did not err in law when it held, in paragraph 85 of the judgment under appeal, that the Commission had not correctly weighed up the interests involved, as required by Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725.","paragraph_id":"para_137"},{"text":"52","paragraph_id":"para_138"},{"text":"In that regard, they dispute the Commission’s analysis that the harm caused by the disclosure of the identity of the persons concerned would be serious. The mere possibility that the members of the negotiation team may be exposed to unsolicited external contacts does not entail a risk of their physi …","paragraph_id":"para_139"},{"text":"53","paragraph_id":"para_140"},{"text":"They consider that the objective pursued of verifying the impartiality of those persons is important because negotiators influence the decision-making process. They emphasise, once again, the limited nature of their request, in so far as it relates only to the identity and professional role of the p …","paragraph_id":"para_141"},{"text":"Findings of the Court","paragraph_id":"para_142"},{"text":"54","paragraph_id":"para_143"},{"text":"According to the settled case-law of the Court, the condition relating to the establishment of a prima facie case is satisfied where at least one of the pleas in law relied on by the applicant for interim measures in support of the main action appears, prima facie, not unfounded. That is the case, i …","paragraph_id":"para_144"},{"text":"55","paragraph_id":"para_145"},{"text":"The second ground relied on by the Commission in support of its appeal alleges that errors of law by the General Court in the interpretation and application of Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725 led it to the erroneous conclusion that the Commission could not base its refusal to grant wider access to the declarations of absence of conflict of interest on the basis of Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001.","paragraph_id":"para_146"},{"text":"56","paragraph_id":"para_147"},{"text":"As a preliminary point, it should be recalled that, according to settled case-law, Regulation No 1049/2001 is designed, as stated in recital 4 and Article 1 thereof, to confer on the public as wide a right of access as possible to the documents of the institutions (judgments of 28 June 2012, Commiss …","paragraph_id":"para_148"},{"text":"57","paragraph_id":"para_149"},{"text":"The principle that the widest possible public access is to be granted to documents is nonetheless subject to certain limits based on reasons of public or private interest. Regulation No 1049/2001 provides, in particular in recital 11 and Article 4 thereof, for a system of exceptions requiring instit …","paragraph_id":"para_150"},{"text":"58","paragraph_id":"para_151"},{"text":"In that regard, it must be recalled that Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001, states that the EU institutions are to refuse access to a document where disclosure would undermine the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual, in particular in accordance with EU legislation regarding the protection of personal data.","paragraph_id":"para_152"},{"text":"59","paragraph_id":"para_153"},{"text":"Thus, where an application is made seeking access to personal data, within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Regulation 2018/1725, the provisions of that regulation become applicable in their entirety (see, by analogy, judgment of 16 July 2015, ClientEarth and PAN Europe v EFSA, C‑615/13 P , EU:C:2015:489 , paragraph  44 and the case-law cited).","paragraph_id":"para_154"},{"text":"60","paragraph_id":"para_155"},{"text":"In the present case, it is common ground that the information requested, namely the surnames and forenames of the members of the negotiation team, which would make it possible to identify the persons who participated in the negotiation of the contracts for the advance purchase of COVID-19 vaccines, constitutes personal data, within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Regulation 2018/1725, which covers any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.","paragraph_id":"para_156"},{"text":"61","paragraph_id":"para_157"},{"text":"Consequently, such personal data may be transmitted to a third party on the basis of Regulation No 1049/2001 only where that transmission fulfils the conditions laid down in Article 9(1)(a) or (b) of Regulation 2018/1725 and constitutes lawful processing in accordance with the requirements of Article 5 of that regulation (see, by analogy, judgment of 2 October 2014, Strack v Commission, C‑127/13 P , EU:C:2014:2250 , paragraph  104 ).","paragraph_id":"para_158"},{"text":"62","paragraph_id":"para_159"},{"text":"In its appeal, the Commission submits, inter alia, that the General Court, in the judgment under appeal, erred in the interpretation and application of the condition laid down in Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725, according to which, once the recipient of the personal data has established that …","paragraph_id":"para_160"},{"text":"63","paragraph_id":"para_161"},{"text":"In that regard, it appears that the interests involved in the present case are, on the one hand, the interest of the members of the negotiation team in not disclosing their identity in order to protect their privacy and, on the other hand, as is apparent from paragraphs 66, 70, 71 and 84 of the judg …","paragraph_id":"para_162"},{"text":"64","paragraph_id":"para_163"},{"text":"As regards the respective importance of those different interests, it must be borne in mind, as regards the interest of the members of the negotiation team in not disclosing their identity, that, according to settled case-law, making personal data available to third parties constitutes an interferen …","paragraph_id":"para_164"},{"text":"65","paragraph_id":"para_165"},{"text":"The assessment of the seriousness of that interference entails account being taken of the nature of the personal data concerned, in particular whether those data may be sensitive, as well as of the nature and specific arrangements for the processing of the data, in particular the number of persons w …","paragraph_id":"para_166"},{"text":"66","paragraph_id":"para_167"},{"text":"In the present case, the personal data whose disclosure is requested relates to the identity and to the professional activity of officials of the Commission and of Member States which participated in the negotiation of the contracts for the advance purchase of COVID-19 vaccines conducted by the Commission on behalf of the Member States.","paragraph_id":"para_168"},{"text":"67","paragraph_id":"para_169"},{"text":"In addition, it is common ground, as the General Court moreover noted in paragraph 77 of the judgment under appeal, that the request for access to that information was made in a context characterised by distrust of some EU citizens in the vaccination strategy promoted by the Commission. 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result that persons who would seek to obtain that information for reasons unrelated to those which justified their disclosure would be capable of freely accessing it (see, to that effect, judgment of 22 November 2022, Luxembourg Business Registers, C‑37/20 and C‑601/20 , EU:C:2022:912 , paragraph  42 and the case-law cited).","paragraph_id":"para_176"},{"text":"71","paragraph_id":"para_177"},{"text":"Furthermore, the potential consequences for the data subjects resulting from possible abuse of their personal data are exacerbated by the fact that, once those data have been made available to the general public, they could not only be freely consulted, but also retained and disseminated and that, i …","paragraph_id":"para_178"},{"text":"72","paragraph_id":"para_179"},{"text":"Such a risk is all the more likely since, in the present case, the data at issue relate only to a very limited number of natural 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