Meetings with German stakeholders on hydrogen
Dear DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents, which contain the following information:
1) all correspondence (including email, SMS, private twitter and WhatsApp) since 1st January 2022 between Commissioner Breton, and/or his cabinet and/or officials from DG GROW with representatives of German companies and associations, in which the issue of hydrogen was discussed. Companies and associations I am particularly interested in are: Uniper, E.ON, RWE, Linde, Siemens (Energy), Thyssengas, Thüga, Vattenfall (Germany), Wintershal Dea, Open Grid Europe, EnBW, MAN Energy Solutions, Fluxys Deutschland, Shell (Deutschland), Gascade, Ontras, ThyssenKrupp, Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW), Zukunft Gas, DVGW (Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfachs), DENA (Deutsche Energieagentur), BDI (Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie), BDA (Bundesverband der dt. Arbeitgeberverbände) and DIHK (Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag);
2) any briefings prepared for Commissioner Breton, and/or his cabinet and/or officials from DG GROW for meetings since 1st January 2022 with representatives from the above mentioned companies and associations, in which the issue of hydrogen was discussed;
3) list of meetings since 1st January 2022 between Breton, and/or his cabinet and/or officials from DG GROW with with representatives from the above mentioned companies and associations, in which the issue of hydrogen was discussed.
4) 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, I 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.
Please find my postal address here: Corporate Europe Observatory, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, Brussels 1050.
Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Pia Eberhardt
Dear Ms. Eberhardt,
Thank you for your e-mail of 20/09/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 20/09/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/5310.
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 11/10/2022. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
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Yours faithfully,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 20/09/2022 under case number 2022/5310.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request, as in order to retreive the requested documents a large
number of files has to be consulted. We will not be able to send you the
reply within the prescribed time limit expiring on 11.10.2022.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 03.11.2022.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards
DG GROW – Access to documents team
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DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
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Dear Ms Eberhardt,
We refer to your e-mail dated 20/09/2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 20/09/2022 under the above mentioned
reference number.
The reply to your request could not be finalised today. Therefore, we are
not in a position to complete the handling of your application within the
extended time limit of 15 working days, which expires on 03/11/2022.
Please be reassured that we are doing our best to be able to send you the
reply as soon as possible.
We apologise for this additional delay and for any inconvenience this may
cause.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
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European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
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Dear [email address],
thank you for your message.
Could you let me know when - roughly - you expect to release the information? This would help me to consider my next steps.
Yours sincerely,
Pia Eberhardt
Dear Madam,
As the reply is currently under finalization, you should receive it early next week, between 7/11 and 9/11.
Kind regards,
DG GROW ATD Team
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
We had to consult a third party on one of the documents that we identified.
The time limit for the reply of the third party expires tomorrow (8.11) by the end of the day.
It means that you should receive the final reply to your request on Wednesday or on Thursday.
Kindly
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
Please find here enclosed the reply to you access to documents request registered under the number 2022/5310.
Kindly
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings