Ref. Ares(2021)2665596 - 21/04/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
The Director-General
Brussels
GROW.B.1/MS/ grow.b.1(2021)2890510
Ms Pia Eberhardt
Rue d’Edimbourg 26
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Email: ask+request-9293-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/2264
We refer to your e-mail of 7 April 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 13 April 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
1) a list of all lobby meetings (including online meetings) held by DG
GROW since January 2020, in which intra-EU investment protection (after the termination
of EU member states' intra-EU investment treaties) has been discussed. The list should
include: date, Commission attendees, the name of the organisation(s) attending, and a more
precise topic if that exists; 2) minutes and other notes from these meetings; 3) all
correspondence between DG GROW and lobby groups, in which intra-EU investment
protection (after the termination of EU member states' intra-EU investment treaties) has
been discussed (since January 2020).
We regret to inform you that the DG GROW does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application.
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 DG GROW, we are 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:
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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 faithfully,
Kerstin Jorna
Director-General
e-signed
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Electronically signed on 21/04/2021 09:04 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482