Ref. Ares(2020)2799583 - 29/05/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
By registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt
Faye Holder,
40 Bermondsey Street,
London J4Y 0B5
United Kingdom
Advance copy by email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/2591
Dear Mr Holder,
We refer to your e-mail dated 6 May 2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 7 May 2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to “
All documentation, including but not limited to attendance lists,
agendas, background papers, minutes/notes, video recordings and email correspondence
about or summarising, the meetings between FuelsEurope (BP) and Aleksandra
Tomczak, member of Frans Timmermans' Cabinet, on 05/05/2020”
Your application concerns the following documents:
Author
Date
Reference
Ares(2020)2392246
1
Fuels Europe
6 May 2020
Ares(2020)941171
2
European
13
February
Commission/Fuels Europe
2020
3
Fuels Europe
31 January 2020
Ares(2020)614650
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Please find the documents enclosed with this letter. However, I regret to inform you that I
cannot give you access to some parts of the documents.
A complete disclosure of the 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.
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.
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 sincerely,
(e-signed)
Luca DE CARLI
2
Electronically signed on 28/05/2020 15:14 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563
