Ref. Ares(2024)3351598 - 08/05/2024
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
Human Development, Migration, Governance and Peace
The Director
Brussels, 06/05/2024
intpa.g.2(2024)3809148
Margarida Da Silva
KNSM-laan 17 1019 LA, Amsterdam
Netherlands
by email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – EASE 2024/2058
Dear Ms Da Silva,
We refer to your request registered on 17/04/24 under the above mentioned reference number in which you
make a request for access to documents.
You request access to “all documents (including emails, notes, briefings, correspondence, presentations)
related to Director-General Koen Doens' meeting with the Tony Blair Institute on 08/03/2023”.
Your application concerns the following documents:
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Email exchanges to schedule the meeting between Director-General Koen Doens and the Tony Blair
Institute on 08/03/2023, subject: “TBI Tech projects and Countries relevant to Global Gateway”,
accompanied by annex “EU Global Gateway and TBI Tech Offer”, presentation provided by the
Tony Blair Institute;
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Follow up email exchanges between INTPA staff and the Tony Blair Institute:
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Email by INTPA staff, subject “Courtesy call with representatives from the Tony Blair
Institute for Global Change - 16th March 2023”
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Email by INTPA staff, subject “Follow-up call with representatives from the Tony Blair
Institute for Global Change - 15th September 2023”
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Email exchanges between INTPA staff and staff of the Tony Blair Institute
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Email subject “FW: Follow up”
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Email subject “Meeting”
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Emails subject “TBI-INTPA meeting” and “RE: TBI-INTPA meeting”
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Tony Blair Institute note titled: “Internal Note Takeaways from the Africa Climate Summit
2023/Africa positioning”
With regard to all documents listed above, 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 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/initials and contact details of other natural persons;
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other information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person such as their function.
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.
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 requested 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 originating from a third party (in this case the Tony Blair Institute) is disclosed
to you based on Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is without prejudice to the rules
on intellectual property, which may limit your right to reproduce or exploit the released document without
the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual property right on it. The European
Commission does not assume any responsibility from their reuse.
Please note that documents:
Email by INTPA staff, subject “Courtesy call with representatives from the
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change - 16th March 2023” and Email by INTPA staff, subject “Follow-
up call with representatives from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change - 15th September 2023”
were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant officials of the Directorate-
General for International Partnerships. 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 document refers, which was
not consulted on its 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’
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BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels, or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Erica GERRETSEN
Director,
Directorate
G
Human
Development,
Migration, Governance and Peace
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Electronically signed on 07/05/2024 16:49 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
