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Ref. Ares(2020)4809608 - 15/09/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT 
 
Directorate E - Aviation 
  E.4 - Aviation safety 
Brussels  
MOVE.DDG2.E.4 
Dear Mr Magill, 
Subject: 
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/4745 
We refer to your application dated 05/08/2020 in which you make a request for access to 
documents, registered on 06/08/2020 under the above mentioned reference number. 
The documents requested are the following ones: 
All documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence, attendance lists, 
agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and minutes/notes) relating to the 
meeting listed below:  

1. Between representatives of the International Air Transport Association(IATA) and 
Commissioner Adina-Ioana Vălean on 20/07/20  

2. Between representatives of the International Air Transport Association(IATA) and 
Commissioner Adina-Ioana Vălean on 02/07/2020  

3. Between representatives of Airlines for Europe(A4E) and Commissioner Adina-Ioana 
Vălean on 20/07/20
.” 
Having examined your request, please find attached documents defined as corresponding to 
your request. In particular, the concerned documents relates to meetings that took place on 
2nd and 20th July 2020 that were of an informative nature. There are no known 
communications with other DGs or other entities. 
These documents were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant 
services of the Directorate-General for Transport and Mobility. They solely reflect the 
services’ 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. 
Having examined the attached documents requested under the provisions of Regulation 
(EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and 
InfluenceMap, 40 Bermondsey Steet London 
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx 

 
Commission documents1 (hereinafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’), I have come to 
the conclusion that they may be disclosed.  
Pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, access to a document has to 
be refused if its disclosure would undermine the protection of privacy and the integrity of 
the individual, in particular in accordance with Community legislation regarding the 
protection of personal data.  
The applicable legislation in this field is 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/EC2 (‘Regulation 2018/1725’).  
Some of the documents to which you request access contain personal data, in particular 
the names, signatures, contact details (email, telephone numbers) online identifiers 
pertaining to Commission staff members and other individuals. Pursuant to Article 
9(1)(b) of Regulation 2018/1725, ‘personal data shall only be transmitted to recipients 
established in the Union other than Union institutions and bodies if  ‘the recipient 
establishes that it is necessary to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in the 
public interest and the controller, where there is any reason to assume that the data 
subject’s legitimate interests might be prejudiced, establishes that it is proportionate to 
transmit the personal data for that specific purpose after having demonstrably weighed 
the various competing interests’.  
Only if these conditions are fulfilled and the processing constitutes lawful handling in 
accordance with the requirements of Article 5 of Regulation 2018/1725, can the 
transmission of personal data occur. 
In your request, you do not put forward any arguments to establish the necessity to have 
the data transmitted for a specific purpose in the public interest. Therefore, the European 
Commission does not have to examine whether there is a reason to assume that the data 
subject’s legitimate interests might be prejudiced. 
Notwithstanding the above, please note that there are reasons to assume that the 
legitimate interests of the data subjects concerned would be prejudiced by disclosure of 
the personal data reflected in the documents, as there is a real and non-hypothetical risk 
that such public disclosure would harm their privacy and subject them to unsolicited 
external contacts. 
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 
1049/2001, access cannot be granted to the personal data, 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 the assessment that the redacted data are personal data 
which can only be disclosed if such disclosure is legitimate under the applicable rules on the 
                                                 
1 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, OJ L 145, 31.05.2001, p. 43. 
2 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, 
OC L 205 of 21.11.2018, p. 39. 



 
protection of personal data, you are entitled, in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation 
1049/2001, to make 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 Secretary-General of the Commission at the following address: 
European Commission, Secretary-General 
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’   
BERL 7/076 
B-1049 Bruxelles   or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx 
Yours sincerely, 
E-signed 
Joachim LUECKING 
Head of Unit 
Enclosure: 
Mail exchange between IATA and A4E and  Commissioner Vălean's 
cabinet, Report of the meeting 

Electronically signed on 15/09/2020 09:24 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563