62It is true that, as the European Parliament notes, the provisions of Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001 do not provide for the public interest in privacy and the integrity of the individual to be weighed against an overriding public interest. However, with the exception of Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 45/2001, which requires that personal data should not be processed in a way incompatible with the purposes for which they were collected, there is nothing in that regulation to limit the scope of the justification for the transfer sought that may be given by the applicant. Nothing prevents the applicant from relying on a general justification such as that relied on in the present case: in essence, the public’s right to information.
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