Judgment_paragraph 101 · Guido Strack v European Commission (C-127/13 P)

101As regards the challenge to the judgment under appeal regarding the ruling by the General Court that the deletion of personal data by the Commission under the exception to the right of access to documents laid down in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001was lawful, the case-law of the Court of Justice provides that the provisions of Regulation No 45/2001, of which Articles 8(b) and 18 constitute essential provisions, become applicable in their entirety where an application based on Regulation No 1049/2001 seeks to obtain access to documents containing personal data (judgment in Commission v Bavarian Lager, EU:C:2010:378, paragraphs 63 and 64).