Ref. Ares(2022)703173 - 31/01/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
Director-General
Brussels, 31 January 2022
ECFIN/G.3/DP
Ms Carlotta Indiano
Investigative Reporting Project Italy
Viale Giulio Cesare, 92
00192 Roma - Italy
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GestDem 2022/0192
Dear Madam,
We refer to your e-mail of 22 December 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents (registered on 12 January 2022 with the above-mentioned reference number).
In your application, you request access to ‘a list of all meetings and/or calls held by the
Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, including any Cabinet Members of
the Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni and/or officials, during which the Italian Resilience and
Recovery Plan was discussed together with any members of the Italian government’ for the
period between November 2020 and April 2021. You also specify the type of documents
relating to those meetings or calls that you would like to access.
As no meetings or discussions were held between Commissioner Gentiloni, members or his
cabinet, staff of the Commission Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
and members of the Italian government about the Italian Resilience and Recovery Plan in
the period you refer to, we regret to inform you that the Commission does not hold any
documents that would correspond to the description given in your application.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil
your request.
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 Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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 sincerely,
(e-signed)
Maarten Verwey
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Electronically signed on 31/01/2022 11:51 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482