Ref. Ares(2020)6034309 - 28/10/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate E - Single Market & Connectivity
The Director
Brussels
SG.E/JC
Ms Frida Kieninger
Food and Water Action Europe
sent by email: ask+request-8638-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Kieninger,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/6040
We refer to your e-mail of 9 October 2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 9 October 2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested the minutes of the following meetings:
• by Frans Timmermans on15/06/2020 with Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
e.V. (BDI) on a Fresh start for climate policy on the Green Deal + Recovery Covid
19 crisis, including in the areas of mobility and logistics
by Frans Timmermans on 11/06/2020 with European Chemical Industry Council
(Cefic)on the Chemicals strategy, decarbonisation, circular economy, HFCs
• by Frans Timmermans on 14/05/2020 with the "Community of European Railway
and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and ALLIANCE OF RAIL NEW
ENTRANTS (ALLRAIL) and UNIFE (UNIFE)" on Recovery and Green Deal in
Transport
• by Frans Timmermans on 06/02/2020 with SUEZ Groupon Green Deal an circular
economy
• by Frans Timmermans on 23/01/2020 with Shell Companies (Shell)on European
Green Deal and its implementation
• by Stefanie Hiesinger and Diederik Samsom and Antoine Colombani on 08/09/2020
withWirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl (WV Stahl) on The European Green Deal and
energy
• by Riccardo Maggi and Antoine Colombani on 17/07/2020 with ENEL SpA on
Green finance
• by Antoine Colombani on 06/07/2020 with ArcelorMittal (AM) on Recovery; clean
steel; carbon border adjustment
• by Helena Braun on 26/06/2020 with European Aluminium AISBL on European
Green Deal and circular economy
• by Aleksandra Tomczak and Diederik Samsom on 19/05/2020 with Gas
Infrastructure Europe (GIE) on Gas infrastructure in the context of climate neutrality
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
• by Aleksandra Tomczak on 14/05/2020with Forum Energiion Green deal, climate
and energy policy
• by Helena Braun on 25/03/2020 on EU Green Deal, crisis recovery and circular
economy
• by Diederik Samsom on 12/03/2020 with GMB trade union (GMB) on The
European Green Deal
• by Aleksandra Tomczak on 11/03/2020 with PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA
on Green Deal priorities: Just transition, offshore wind
• by Diederik Samsom on 04/03/2020 with Havenbedrijf Rotterdam NV (Port of
Rotterdam) on The European Green Deal
The Commission does not hold any documents that would correspond to the description
given in your application.
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, covering also areas falling under the
responsibility of other Directorates-General, parts of your request have been attributed to
other Directorates-General. You will receive the reply related to the other meetings from the
other respective Directorates-General in due course.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution. Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil
your request.
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.
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 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
John WATSON
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Electronically signed on 27/10/2020 08:28 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
