Ref. Ares(2021)4919004 - 02/08/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
SG.C.1/DO
By registered letter with AR
Ms Belén Balanyá
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d’Edimbourg 26,
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Copy by email: ask+request-9445-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2021/3069
Dear Ms Balanyá,
I refer to your e-mail of 8 July 2021, registered on 19 July 2021, in which you submit a
confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of
6 May 2021 in which you requested, I quote:
‘1 - all correspondence (including email) between 1st january 2021 and 6th May 2021
between Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Timmermans, Commissioner Breton,
President van der Leyen, Commissioner McGuinness, Commissioner Gentiloni and/or
their cabinets and/or officials from DG Energy, DG Clima, DG Grow, DG Fisma and
Secretariat General on one hand and stakeholders on the other, where EU taxonomy for
sustainable activities was addressed.
2 - list of meetings/videocalls/calls between 1st December 2020 and 6th May 2021
between officials and/or representatives of the European Commission and stakeholders
where the issue of EU taxonomy for sustainable activities was addressed.
1 OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
3 - minutes of the meetings/videocalls/calls mentioned above.’
The initial request was assigned to the Directorate-General for Climate Action. As you
did not receive an initial reply from that Directorate-General within the statutory time
limits, you submitted a confirmatory application on 8 July 2021.
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on 30 July 2021. In its
reply, the Directorate-General for Climate Action identified 97 documents and provided
you with a list of these documents. It partially disclosed these documents based on the
exception laid down in Article 4(1)(b) (protection of privacy and the integrity of the
individual) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory application
related to the lack of initial reply.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the initial
reply of 30 July 2021.
Yours sincerely,
María Oliván Avilés
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 02/08/2021 15:29 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482