Judgment_paragraph 17 · Fabio De Masi and Yanis Varoufakis v European Central Bank (T-798/17)

17That right is subject to certain limits based on reasons of public or private interest. More specifically, and in accordance with recital 4 thereof, Decision 2004/258 provides, in Article 4 thereof, for a system of exceptions authorising the ECB to refuse access to a document where disclosure of that document would undermine one of the interests protected by Article 4(1) and (2) or where that document is for internal use as part of deliberations and preliminary consultations within the ECB, or for exchanges of views between the ECB and the national central banks, the national competent authorities or the national designated authorities, or where it reflects exchanges of views between the ECB and other relevant authorities and bodies. Since the exceptions to the right of access referred to in Article 4 of Decision 2004/258 derogate from the right of access to documents, they must be interpreted and applied strictly (see, to that effect, judgment of 29 November 2012, Thesing and Bloomberg Finance v ECB, T‑590/10, not published, EU:T:2012:635, paragraph 41).

Fabio De Masi and Yanis Varoufakis v European Central Bank (T-798/17)

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