Ref. Ares(2022)3580364 - 11/05/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy: Strategy and Coordination
A.5 - Planning and Legal Affairs
Brussels, 11 May 2022
ENER/ACB(2022)3849623
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
Pace Barnaby
Global Witness
Rue Belliard 53
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Advance copy by email :
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/2231
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your email of 14 April 2022 in which you make a request for access to documents,
registered on 17 April 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
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 March 28 between Kadri
Simson and International Association of Oil & Gas Producers Europe.
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Ares(2022)895312
03/02/2022
MEETING REQUEST KS - Open date - With Dawn
Summers, President of the IOGP European Board
Ares(2022)2135269
23/03/2022
POSITIVE REPLY: MEETING REQUEST KS -
Open date
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 07/004 - Tel. direct line +32 229-67304
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Ares(2022)3269571
28/03/2022
20220328 TMU - Meeting Kadri Simson with IOGP
I am glad to inform you that you can have wide partial access to all documents, subject only to the
redaction of personal data. Please find enclosed redacted copies of these documents.
A complete disclosure of these documents 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 the following personal data:
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the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining
to the senior management;
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the names and contact details of other natural persons.
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 any arguments to establish the necessity to have
the data transmitted for a specific purpose in the public interest.
Access is granted to minutes of a meeting with external parties. This document was drawn up for
internal use under the responsibility of the relevant service. It solely reflects the service’s
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 accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make 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 (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Anne-Charlotte BOURNOVILLE
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 11/05/2022 10:30 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
