Ref. Ares(2022)2238901 - 28/03/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Directorate A – Strategy, Analysis and Planning
CLIMA.A.1 – Strategic Coordination, Legal & Institutional
Brussels
Mr Vivek PAREKH
1 Long Lane
SE1 4PG London
United Kingdom
Email
: ask+request-10851-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2022/1578
Dear Sir,
We refer to your e-mail dated 17 March 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 18 March 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.
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 meetings listed below:
1. Between GasNaturally and Director-General Mauro Raffaele Petriccione on 18th
January 2022.
DG CLIMA has identified one document within the scope of the application:
1. ARES(2022)647696 – meeting minutes.
Following an examination of the document under the provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001, I regret to inform you that a complete disclosure of the identified document
is prevented by the exception concerning the protection of privacy and the integrity of the
individual outlined in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, because it contains:
names and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior
management; names and contact details of other natural persons and other information
relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation does not allow the transmission of these
personal data, except if you prove that it is necessary to have the data transmitted to you for
a specific purpose in the public interest and where there is no reason to assume that the
legitimate interests of the data subject might be prejudiced. In your request, you do not
express any particular interest to have access to these personal data nor do you put forward
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any arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose
in the public interest.
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001, access cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the document, as
the need to obtain access thereto for a purpose in the public interest has not been
substantiated and there is no reason to think that the legitimate interests of the individuals
concerned would not be prejudiced by disclosure of the personal data concerned.
Please also note that this document was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of
the relevant services of the Directorate-General for Climate Action. It solely reflects the
services’ interpretation of the interventions made and does not set out any official position
of the third parties to which the document refers, which was not consulted on its content. It
does not reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
In case you would disagree with this position, you are entitled, in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, to submit a confirmatory application requesting the
Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt
of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels, or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
(electronically signed)
Luca DE CARLI
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 25/03/2022 11:25 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
