Ref. Ares(2022)4682824 - 27/06/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Directorate A – Strategy, Analysis and Planning
CLIMA.A.1 – Strategic Coordination, Legal & Institutional
Brussels
CLIMA.A.1
Will Aitchison
1 Long Lane
SE1 4PG London
United Kingdom
By email t
o: ask+request-11141-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your access to documents request with reference Gestdem 2022/2472
Dear Mr Aitchison,
We refer to your e-mail dated 27 April 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 2 May 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to:
“All documentation, including but not limited to attendance
lists, agendas, background papers, minutes/notes and email correspondence about or
summarising, the following meetings between:
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EuropeanRoundTableforIndustry(ERT) and EVP Timmermans on 22/11/2021.
-
BundesverbandderDeutschenIndustriee.V.(BDI) and EVP Timmermans on
30/03/2022.
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BundesverbandderDeutschenIndustriee.V.(BDI)
and
DG
Petriccione
on
29/09/2021.
-
IBERDROLA(IBE) and DG Petriccione on 14/03/2022
-
TheAmericanEuropeanCommunityAssociation(AECA) and EVP Timmermans
Cabinet on 08/03/2022.”
DG CLIMA has identified following documents within the scope of the application:
Author
Date
Reference
Ares(2021)4715311
1
ERT
20 July 2021
Ares(2021)4715311
2
ERT
20 July 2021
ERT and European
Ares(2021)4835061
3
28 July 2021
Commission
Ares(2021)5513236
4
ERT
3 September 2021
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Ares(2021)5513236
5
ERT
3 September 2021
Ares(2021)5513236
6
ERT
3 September 2021
ERT and European
Ares(2021)5622438
7
14 September 2021
Commission
ERT and European
Ares(2021)5810353
8
22 September 2021
Commission
Ares(2021)7549290
9
European Commission
7 December 2021
Ares(2021)7720539
10
AECA
2 March 2022
Ares(2021)7720539
11
AECA
2 March 2022
Ares(2021)7720539
12
AECA
2 March 2022
Ares(2021)7732090
13
ERT
14 December 2021
Ares(2022)1793396
14
AECA
8 March 2022
Ares(2022)1793396
15
AECA
8 March 2022
BDI/BDA and
Ares(2022)2003211
16
16 March 2022
European Commission
Ares(2022)2376566
17
European Commission
14 March 2022
Ares(2022)780020
18
BDI/BDA
28 January 2022
Ares(2022)780020
19
BDI/BDA
21 February 2022
BDI/BDA and
Ares(2022)780020
20
7 March 2022
European Commission
Following an examination of the documents under the provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001, I regret to inform you that a complete disclosure of the identified 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 they
contain: 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
any arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose
in the public interest.
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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 documents, 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 note that documents 9 and 17 were drawn up for internal use under the
responsibility of the relevant officials of DG CLIMA. They solely reflect the author's
interpretation of the interventions made and do not set out any official position of the
third parties to which the documents refer, which were not consulted on the content.
They do 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
Electronically signed on 24/06/2022 15:41 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
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