Judgment_paragraph 211 · Fabien Courtois and Others v European Commission (T-761/21)

211Lastly, in so far as the applicants rely on the wish to exercise democratic control of the Commission’s actions, as the Commission stated in the contested decision, its administrative activity does not require such extensive access to documents as that required by the legislative activity of an EU institution (see, by analogy, judgments of 29 June 2010, Commission v Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau, C‑139/07 P, EU:C:2010:376, paragraph 60, and of 27 February 2014, Commission v EnBW, C‑365/12 P, EU:C:2014:112, paragraph 91).