Court: Von der Leyen's SMS to Pfizer boss must be disclosed

The Court stated that the Commission's answers throughout the procedure were based either on hypotheses or on changing or inaccurate information. The newspaper, however, provided relevant evidence that von der Leyen and Bourla had repeatedly exchanged views. This refuted the presumption that the documents did not exist.

Commission must search for documents

The Court emphasized that the Commission had to provide plausible explanations as to why these documents could not be found. It also failed to describe precisely how or where it had searched for them.