Ref. Ares(2022)5493375 - 01/08/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, CONTENT AND
TECHNOLOGY
Resources and Support
Compliance and Planning
Brussels
CNECT.R.4.001
Mr Samuel Stolton
Rue de la Loi 62
1040 Brussels
Belgium
Advance copy by email:
ask+request-11528-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GestDem 2022/3808
Dear Mr Stolton,
We refer to your email of 4 July 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council
and Commission documents (hereinafter ‘Regulation 1049/2001’), registered on 7 July
2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.
1. SCOPE OF YOUR APPLICATION
By your application, you request access to the following:
‘All documentation (including but not limited to: general communications of any
nature, written material of any kind, email correspondences, attendance lists,
agendas, background papers, briefing papers, transcriptions of meetings, readouts of
meetings, summaries of meetings, briefings for meetings, etc) concerning
Commissioner Breton's meeting with France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on
Monday 4 July 2022.’
2. DOCUMENTS FALLING WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE REQUEST
We identified the following document as falling within the scope of your request:
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
- Email correspondence ‘Access to documents Ref GestDem 2022/3808’,
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Document)
3. ASSESSMENT UNDER REGULATION 1049/2001
Following an examination of the identified document under the provisions of Regulation
1049/2001, we have arrived at the conclusion that partial access can be granted to the
document identified. Full disclosure is prevented by the exception concerning the
protection of privacy and integrity of the individual outlined in Article 4(1)(b) Regulation
1049/2001, since the document contains the following personal data:
- the names/initials of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior
management.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation1 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.
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) Regulation 1049/2001, access
cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the requested 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.
4. REUSE OF DOCUMENTS
You may reuse public documents which have been produced by the European
Commission or by public and private entities on its behalf based on the
Commission
Decision on the reuse of Commission documents. You may reuse the parts of the
disclosed document originating from the Commission free of charge and for non-
commercial and commercial purposes provided that the source is acknowledged and that
you do not distort the original meaning or message of the documents. Please note that the
Commission does not assume liability stemming from the reuse.
The identified 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 party 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.
5. CONFIRMATORY APPLICATION
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.
1
Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the
protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions,
bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No
45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC, OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p/39.
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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
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Electronically signed
Thomas Naets
p.o. Martin Schauer
Head of Unit
Enclosure:
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Electronically signed on 29/07/2022 17:29 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
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