Ref. Ares(2021)3336225 - 19/05/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
Will Aitchison
40 Bermondsey Street
London, SE1 3UD
United Kingdom
Email: ask+request-9401-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2021/2899
Dear Mr Aitchison,
We refer to your e-mail dated 29 April 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 4 May 2021 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 between:
i.
BusinessEurope and Mauro Raffaele Petriccione, Director-General, on
23/03/2021 regarding EU ETS
ii.
European Round Table for Industry (ERT) and Frans Timmermans on
23/11/2020 regarding Green Deal and industrial policy; green recovery
iii.
Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana (Confindustria) and Mauro
Raffaele Petriccione, Director-General, on 18/02/2020 regarding Green Deal
iv.
Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana (Confindustria) and Mauro
Raffaele Petriccione, Director-General, on 18/09/2018 regarding Long Term
Strategy; Emission Trading System /implementation and future developments
v.
Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana (Confindustria) and Silvia
Bartolini, Cabinet member of Miguel Arias Cañete, on 13/04/2018, regarding
Clean Energy for all European Package ongoing negotiations
vi.
Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana (Confindustria) and Silvia
Bartolini, Cabinet member of Miguel Arias Cañete, on 21/01/2015, regarding
the Energy Union”.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
DG CLIMA has identified the following documents:
Author
Date
Reference
1
European Round Table for 21 October 2020
Industry
Ares(2020)5709708
2
European Round Table for 21 October 2020
Industry
Ares(2020)5709708
3
European Round Table for 21 October 2020
Industry
Ares(2020)5709708
4
European Round Table for
Industry/
European 30 October 2020
Commission
Ares(2020)6141904
5
European Round Table for 8
December
Industry
2020
Ares(2020)7597478
6
European Round Table for 8
December
Industry
2020
Ares(2020)7597478
7
30
November
European Commission
2020
Ares(2020)7207345
8
20
February
European Commission
2020
Ares(2020)1096113
9
European Commission
25 March 2021
Ares(2021) 2100023
10
15
February
European Commission
2019
Ares(2019)931571
Following an examination of identified documents under the provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, I regret to inform you that a complete
disclosure of the documents 1-6 and 8-10 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
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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 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.
Please note that documents 7-10 were drawn up for internal use. They solely reflect the
author's interpretation of the interventions made and do not set out any official position
of the third parties to which the document refers, which were not consulted on its content.
They do 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
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 17/05/2021 17:37 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482