29The applicant rejects the defendant's statement that once a document is sent to a Community institution, it should be dealt with under Article 4(5) of Regulation No 1049/2001. The applicant submits that, in most cases, determining authorship of each document will not be problematic. In any event, the convenience of administration should not take priority over the rights of citizens of the European Union to the widest possible access to documents except where it would be unreasonably burdensome (Case C-353/99 P Council v Hautala [2001] ECR I-9565, paragraphs 29 and 30, and Case T-14/98 Hautala v Council [1999] ECR II-2489, paragraphs 85 to 88). The authorship of the document in the present case is not in doubt. It is clearly a document drafted by a third party. The Commission should therefore have dealt with it under Article 4(4) of Regulation No 1049/2001 instead of under Article 4(5) of that regulation.
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