Gas market energy - exxon, gie and shell
From: Belen Balanya, Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels.
17 October 2019 RE: Access to Documents related to gas market reform
Dear sirs,
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Regulation' (see note), I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
1- all correspondence (including email) between 1st January 2018 and 17 October 2019 between the Commissioner for Energy and/or his cabinet and/or officials and representatives of DG Energy on one hand and representatives from Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), ExxonMobil and Shell on the other, in which the gas market reform was addressed.
2 - list of meetings between 1st January 2018 and 17 October 2019 between officials and representatives of DG Energy on one hand and representatives from Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), ExxonMobil and Shell on the other, in which the gas market reform was addressed.
3 - minutes of the meetings mentioned above
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis.
At no point should the Commission’s search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
To the extent possible, we prefer the documents in electronic format. Documents that cannot be sent in electronic format should be sent to Corporate Europe Observatory, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I expect the partial release of documents, in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6.
I reserve the right to appeal.
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.
Thank you for your assistance.
Belen Balanya
Corporate Europe Observatory
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
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Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
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[1]Ares(2019)6442958 - RE: access to documents request - Gas market energy
- exxon, gie and shell -- Ref. Gestdem 2019/5884
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Dear Madam,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 17/10/2019. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on
18/10/2019 under reference number GestDem 2019/5884.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days.
The time limit will expire on 11/11/2019. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.
You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note
that this is a private third-party website which has no link with any
institution of the European Union. Therefore, the European Commission
cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to
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In that case, the European Commission will send all future electronic
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Yours faithfully,
Access to documents team (RC)
SG.C.1
Transparency
Dear Ms Balanya,
We refer to your e-mail dated 17/10/2019 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 18/10/2019 under the above mentioned
reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, we will not be in a
position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit of 15 working days, which expires on 11/11/2019.
Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 02/12/2019.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
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European Commission
DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
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