Ref. Ares(2023)1128298 - 16/02/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
SG.C.1
Ms Venetia Roxburgh
1 Long Lane
London
United Kingdom
Via email only with acknowledgment of
receipt:
ask+request-10338-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 – GESTDEM 2021/7754
Dear Ms Roxburgh,
I am writing in reference to your confirmatory application registered on 26 January 2023,
submitted in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public
access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents 1 (hereafter 'Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001').
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of
6 December 2021, registered on the same day, in which you requested access to:
“All documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence,
attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and
minutes/notes) relating to the meeting listed below:
1. Between CEMBUREAU and Thor-Sten Vertmann, Cabinet member of Kadri
Simson on the 5th February 2020
2. Between CEMBUREAU and Dominique Ristori, Director-General on the 4th
June 2019”
The initial request was assigned the Directorate-General for Environment. As you did not
receive an initial reply within the statutory time limits, you submitted a confirmatory
application on 26 January 2023.
1 OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on 9 February 2023 (under
reference number Ares(2023)944192).
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory application
related to the lack of initial reply.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(2)
of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the initial reply of
9 February 2023.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca
Deputy Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 15/02/2023 14:05 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121