80He claims that the Commission must state the reasons on which its decisions are supposed to be based. In this connection he refers to the judgments in Case T-194/94Carvel and Guardian Newspapers v Council [1995] ECR II-2765 and WWF UK v Commission, cited above, in which the Court held that a Community institution, when exercising its discretion in deciding whether to release documents, must strike a genuine balance between, on the one hand, the interest of private individuals in obtaining access to those documents and, on the other, its own interest in protecting the confidentiality of its deliberations. According to the applicant, the Commission is obliged to give adequate reasons for not pursuing the objective of transparency and applying an exception to the general principle of access.