Ref. Ares(2020)7645919 - 16/12/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Directorate I. Legal, institutional and procedural matters
I.3. Enforcement of legislation, Relations with the European Ombudsman and Access to documents
Brussels
AGRI.DDG3.I.3/KVK/RW D(2020)8525159
Ms Venetia ROXBURGH
40 Bermondsey Street
London
United Kingdom
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Madam,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/7334
We refer to your e-mail of 25/11/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 26/11/2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
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 Catherine Geslain Lanéelle, Cabinet member of Janusz Wojciechowski,
Jorge Pinto Antunes, Cabinet member of Janusz Wojciechowski and Bayer on the
23rd July 2020
Your application concerns the following documents:
LIST OF DOCUMENTS IDENTIFIED BY THE the Cabinet of Commissioner
Wojciechowski FOR THE REQUEST OF ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS No Gestdem
Gestdem 2020/7334
N
Title/kind (email,
Author of the
Ares no and
AGRI
Comment or
o
note) of
document
date of the
decision
justification in
document
document
case of refusal
1
Meeting request
Bayer
Ares(2020)35
Give access
Personal data
Bayer
CropScience
47888
redacted
CropScience
2
Minutes_meeting
DG AGRI
Ares(2020)41
Give access
Personal data
BAYER
22298_
redacted
CropScience
3
Transparency
Bayer
Ares(2020)71
Give access
Personal data
register
CropScience
43310
redacted
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
With regard to the documents
listed above, a complete disclosure of the identified
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 the following personal data:
-
the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not
pertaining to the senior management;
- the names/initials and contact details of other natural persons.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation1 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.
You may reuse the documents numbers 1 and 3 disclosed free of charge and for non-
commercial and commercial purposes provided that the source is acknowledged and that
you do not distort the original meaning or message of the documents. Please note that the
Commission does not assume liability stemming from the reuse.
With regard to the document number 2, it was drawn up for internal use under the
responsibility of the relevant services of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and
Rural Development. It solely reflects 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.
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
1 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, OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39.
2
B-1049 Brussels,
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Karl von Kempis
Head of Unit
Enclosure:
3 documents
3
Electronically signed on 15/12/2020 18:02 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482