Ref. Ares(2022)601811 - 26/01/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate A - Energy policy: Strategy and Coordination
A.5 - Planning and Legal Affairs
Brussels, 25 January 2022
ENER.A.5/ACB/OK/ma(2022)632766
By registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt
Address
PACE Barnaby
Rue Belliard 53,
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
Advance copy by email :
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/6013
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your e-mail dated 8 October 2021 in which you make a request for access to documents,
registered on 11 October 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in replying to your request, due to the exceptional
workload related to the ‘Delivering the European Green Deal’ legislative package.
You request electronic access to:
all documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written
or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take,
briefings, and presentations—related to any correspondence or meetings between Tudor
Constantinescu and Gas Infrastructure Europe or any of its members (listed at
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.gie.eu/dna/members/__;!!DOxrgLBm!VauiUVzx2BjATDH
Bpk1SUwlE0toxTLA9ihZPBy0rB0fr5mPq_cI2Kdrf1L9hchLuIPtCSg$ ) since 1 January 2021.
The following documents fall within the scope of your application:
Date
Title
1
26 April 2021 and Email: GRTgaz Hydrogen Energy Network
previous emails
(HyENet) meeting May
2
20 october 2021 and Email: Meeting with GLE
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
previous emails
3
7 January 2021
Conference programme “GIE Annual Conference
2021”
4
October 2021
Preparatory note – GIE Annual Conference
5
April 2021
Conference programme “GIEenergy Days”
6
October 2021
GIE conference – Speakers briefing REMOTE
7
2 June 2021
Email “GIE & Gasunie – hydrogen regulation”
with attached
a. Pdf file “GIE H2 Position Paper v0333
siglepages”
b. Pptx file “02. Gasunie view on H2 market
design and regulation v2_NK”
8
2 June 2021
Report “How to transport and Store Hydrogen –
Facts and Figures”
Having examined the documents requested under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
regarding public access to documents, I have come to the conclusion that documents 1 to 7 may be
partially disclosed. Documents 8 can be fully disclosed. Therefore, some parts of those documents
have been blanked out as their disclosure is prevented by an exception to the right of access laid down
in Article 4 of this Regulation.
A complete disclosure of documents 1 to 7 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 it contains the following personal data:
The names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining to
the senior management;
The names and contact details of other natural persons.
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.
Please note that documents originating from third parties are 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 documents without the
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agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual property right on them. The European
Commission does not assume any responsibility from their reuse.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make 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 Secretary-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Anne-Charlotte BOURNOVILLE
p.o. Oliver KOCH
Deputy Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 25/01/2022 18:19 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482