Ref. Ares(2020)4648231 - 07/09/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate B - Internal Energy Market
B.1 - Networks & Regional Initiatives
Brussels, 7/09/2020
ENER.B.1/JB/IM(2020)4670835
Mrs Frida Kieninger
Food & Water Europe
Rue d'Edimbourg 26
Brussels 1050
Belgium
Advance copy by email: ask+request-8397-
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Dear Madam,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/4573
We refer to your e-mail dated 24/07/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 27/07/2020 under the above mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
- all correspondence (including email) between 1st December 2019 and 12 July
2020 between Commissioner Simson, and/or her cabinets and/or officials from
DG ENER on one hand and representatives from IOGP, Shell, Total, BP,
Equinor, ZEP, the Global CCS Institute, Hydrogen Europe, the Hydrogen
Council, Business Europe, the European Roundtable for Industry, GasNaturally,
Eurogás, ENTSO-G, Snam, Enagás, Fluxys, Open Grid Europe, GRTGaz,
Teréga, Eurofer, ArcelorMittal, FTI Consulting, Fleishman Hillard, Alstom,
Engie, Air Liquide, Toyota, Gas for Climate consortium, Gas Infrastructure
Europe on the other, in which the revision of TEN-E was addressed.
- List of meetings between 1st December 2019 and 12 July 2020 between officials
and representatives of DG ENER on one hand and representatives from IOGP,
Shell, Total, BP, Equinor, ZEP, the Global CCS Institute, Hydrogen Europe, the
Hydrogen Council, Business Europe, the European Roundtable for Industry,
GasNaturally, Eurogás,ENTSO-G, Snam, Enagás, Fluxys, Open Grid Europe,
GRTGaz, Teréga, Eurofer, ArcelorMittal, FTI Consulting, Fleishman Hillard,
Alstom, Engie, Air Liquide, Toyota, Gas for Climate consortium, Gas
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Infrastructure Europe on the other, in which the revision of TEN-E was
addressed.
- Minutes of the meetings mentioned above.
We consider your request to cover documents ranging from 1 December 2019 to 12 July
2020. Your application concerns the documents listed in Annex.
Having examined the documents and the attachment requested under the provisions of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, I have come to the
conclusion that they can be disclosed.
Please note that Ares(2020)4003761, Ares(2020)400890, Ares(2020)4003345, Ares
(2020)3066688, Ares(2020)4076999, Ares(2020)4524660, Ares(2020)4633752 were
drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant officials of the
Directorate-General for Energy. It solely reflects the author'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.
Please note that the Commission also received feedback from the stakeholders mentioned in
the scope of your request during the consultation on the inception impact assessment/
Roadmap on the revision of the Guidelines on the Trans-European energy networks. The
feedback is accessible at the following link:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12382-Revision-of-
the-guidelines-for-trans-European-Energy-infrastructure/feedback?p_id=7857366
Some parts of the documents and e-mail enclosed have been withheld as their disclosure is
prevented by exceptions concerning the protection of privacy and the integrity of the
individual pursuant to 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/initials and contact details of other natural persons;
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handwritten signatures/abbreviated signatures of natural persons;
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other information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person [email
address].
Yours sincerely,
Joachim Balke
e-signed
Enclosure:
copy of the documents and e-mails requested
c.c.:
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