Ref. Ares(2021)7963207 - 23/12/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency & Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels
SG.C.1/
By registered mail with AR
Mrs. Naomi Hirst
Global Witness
Rue Belliard 53
1000, Bruxelles,
Belgique
By Email: ask-request-10089-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents - GESTDEM 2021/6153
Dear Mrs. Hirst,
I refer to your e-mail of 6 December 2021, in which you submit a confirmatory
application in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents1 (hereafter
‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of 15
October 2021, in which you requested access to the following documents:
‘
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes
(hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational
conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on 2021-
09-29 between Filomena Chirico and Facebook Ireland Limited.
In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID
pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.’
1 Official Journal L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
As you did not receive any initial reply from the Directorate-General for
Communications Networks, Content and Technology within the statutory time limits,
you submitted a confirmatory application on 6 December 2021.
In the meantime, the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and
Technology sent you its initial reply on 14 December 20212.
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory
application.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the initial
reply of the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
of 14 December 2021.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon
receipt of the letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following
address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
María Oliván Avilés
Head of Unit
2 It is registered under reference Ares(2021)7731651.
2
Electronically signed on 22/12/2021 15:01 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482