386According to the Court of Justice, that was the objective in the light of which Regulation No 1049/2001 requires, as a general rule, an EU institution that proposes to refuse access to a document to explain how access to that document could specifically undermine the interest protected by one of the exceptions that are provided for to the right of access at issue, without prejudice to that institution’s right to rely, in that regard, on a general presumption of confidentiality that applies to a category of documents, where considerations of a generally similar kind are likely to apply to requests for disclosure relating to documents of the same nature (see judgment of 19 June 2018, Baumeister, C‑15/16, EU:C:2018:464, paragraph 42 and the case-law cited).
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