Ref. Ares(2020)7350155 - 04/12/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
By registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt
Jake Carbone
40 Bermondsey Street
J4Y 0B5 London
United Kingdom
Advance copy by email: ask+request-8767-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/6933
Dear Mr Carbone,
We refer to your e-mail dated 13 November 2020 in which you make a request for access
to documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to “
All documentation, including but not limited to attendance lists,
agendas, background papers, minutes/notes and email correspondence about or
summarising, the following meetings:
i)
Between Facebook Ireland Limited and the Executive Vice-President Frans
Timmerman's Cabinet on 09/09/2020.
ii)
Between Google and the Executive Vice-President Frans Timmerman's
Cabinet on 07/09/2020.
iii)
Between Apple Inc and Executive Vice-President Frans Timmerman's Cabinet
on 06/10/2020”
Your application concerns the following documents:
Author
Date
Reference
1
Apple/European
Ares(2020)6829555
29 September 2020
Commission
Ares(2020)6829726
2
Apple/European
29 September 2020
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Commission
3
Facebook/European
Ares(2020)5119662
24 July 2020
Commission
4
Facebook/European
Ares(2020)3917957
26 May 2020
Commission
5
Google/European
Ares(2020)4891369
18 September 2020
Commission
6
Google/European
Ares(2020)4891369
18 September 2020
Commission
7
Google/European
Ares(2020)4891369
18 September 2020
Commission
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
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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
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Electronically signed on 03/12/2020 14:40 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482