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Decision on how the European Central Bank (ECB) dealt with a request for public access to documents concerning its gender-related policies (case 1309/2025/MIG)
Tuesday | 12 May 2026
The case concerned the European Central Bank’s (ECB) refusal to give public access to documents containing advice relating to its gender policy and related measures. The ECB considered that disclosure would undermine the protection of legal advice and its internal decision-making. The complainant argued that there is an overriding public interest in disclosure, namely in understanding the legal reasoning underpinning the ECB’s gender policy and related measures.
The Ombudsman inquiry team inspected the documents at issue. Based on this, the Ombudsman found that the content of the documents could reasonably be regarded as legal advice and that it had been reasonable for the ECB to consider that disclosure of the documents would have undermined the protection afforded to legal advice. In addition, the Ombudsman found it reasonable for the ECB to consider that there was no overriding public interest in disclosure.
The Ombudsman thus closed the inquiry finding no maladministration.
Decision on how the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights replied to concerns about how it reports on sexual violence in armed conflicts (case 529/2026/RVK)
Monday | 04 May 2026
The European Commission's failure to reply to questions about the EU rules on work-life balance
Tuesday | 03 March 2026
How the European Central Bank (ECB) dealt with a request for public access to documents and information concerning its gender-related policies
Friday | 19 September 2025
The European Commission’s alleged failure to reply to an infringement complaint from 2023, concerning Denmark's alleged breach of EU rules on equal treatment / non-discrimination regarding pension entitlements
Wednesday | 02 April 2025
The failure by the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF) to reply to correspondence concerning the European Green Party
Tuesday | 11 March 2025
Decision on how the European Commission assessed an infringement complaint regarding alleged discrimination in the context of an EU funded academic project in Czechia (Chap(2022)01991 - CPLT (2023)01393) (case 1730/2023/JN)
Monday | 18 December 2023
The European Commission’s failure to reply to e-mails on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and EU cultural funding
Monday | 02 October 2023
The European Commission’s failure to provide a substantive reply to e-mails on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and EU cultural funding
Thursday | 08 June 2023
The failure by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) to reply to an e-mail concerning gender balance in the European Cyber Security Challenge
Friday | 17 December 2021
How the European Commission dealt with a request for public access to documents
Tuesday | 06 July 2021
Commission and alleged failure to reply to a letter, urging the Commission to renew the mandate of the then current EU Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinator
Friday | 10 July 2020
The Commission’s failure to reply to correspondence concerning the pension rights of women born in the United Kingdom in the 1950’s
Thursday | 09 July 2020
Decision of the European Ombudsman in the above case on the alleged erroneous reply of the European Commission to your infringement complaint concerning discrimination and persecution in Germany
Friday | 03 April 2020
Decision in case 1829/2019/EWM on the European Commission’s failure to grant access to documents relating to meetings between Commissioner Jourová and stakeholders
Tuesday | 12 November 2019
The case concerned a request for public access to documents related to four meetings between Commissioner Jourová and several external stakeholders. Having waited for a reply from the Commission for six months, the complainant turned to the Ombudsman.
The Ombudsman closed the inquiry because after her intervention, the Commission replied to the complainant and granted partial access to the requested documents.
The European Commission’s failure to grant access to documents relating to meetings of Commissioner Jourová with external stakeholders
Friday | 04 October 2019
Failure by the European Commission to reply to correspondence concerning, among other things, gender discrimination in terms of retirement age in Poland
Wednesday | 02 October 2019