Ref. Ares(2021)5781283 - 22/09/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
Investment
C4. Intangible Economy
Brussels,
GROW.C.4/ACS/vo/ grow.c.4(2021)6392137
Mr Kenneth HAAR
Overgaden oven Vandet 12
1415 Copenhagen K
Denmark
email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Sir,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/5108
We refer to your e-mail of 18th August 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 19th August 2021 under the above mentioned reference number.
We have identified the enclosed documents falling within the scope of your request.
Please note that parts of the documents blanked out are out of scope (not to do with
SPCs).
Your application concerns the following documents:
1. Ares(2020)6393201 – 05/11/2020 – Webinar IP and Competition – 5 Nov 2020
2. Annex to this above webinar – Medicines for Europe Whitepaper – Nov 2020
3. Ares(2020)5530775 – 15/10/2020 – Minutes of Meeting with Medicines for Europe
of 7th Oct 2020
4. Ares(2020)6143551 – 30/10/2020 – Minutes of Meeting of bi-annual EFTA – EC
working group on Intellectual Property of 22 Oct 2020
5. Ares((2020)6309489 – 03/11/2020 – Minutes of the Webinar meeting “EU IP
strategy” of 27th Oct 2020
6. Ares(2020)807577 – 7/02/2020 – Minutes of Meeting with AbbVie on 7th Feb 2020
With regard to the 5 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;
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: N105 01/049 - Tel. direct line
xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
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.
You may reuse public documents, which have been produced by the European Commission
or by public and private entities on its behalf based on the
Commission Decision on the
reuse of Commission documents.
You may reuse the documents 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 document 2 (Annex) originating from third parties is disclosed to you
based on Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is without prejudice
to the rules on intellectual property, which may limit your right to reproduce or exploit
the released document without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an
intellectual property right on it. The European Commission does not assume any
responsibility from their reuse.
This document was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant
officials of the Directorate-General for
Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship
and SMEs. It solely reflects the author's 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.
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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 faithfully,
Please note that the Commission does not assume liability stemming from the reuse.
Yours faithfully,
Claudia MARTINEZ FELIX
Deputy Head of Unit
Enclosures:
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Electronically signed on 21/09/2021 17:37 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482