Ref. Ares(2017)1712877 - 30/03/2017
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2017/942
Dear Sir,
We refer to your message dated 15/02/2017 in which you made a request for access to
documents, registered on 16/02/2017 under the above mentioned reference number.
You requested access to:
1.
- a list of meetings of DG Research and Innovation officials and/or representatives
(including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and representatives of individual
companies, including lobby consultancies and law firms, and/or industry associations, in
which the upcoming Preparatory Action (PA) on Defence Research and the European
Defence Research Programme (EDRP) were dealt with;
2.
- minutes and other reports of these meetings;
3.
- all correspondence (including emails) between DG Research and Innovation officials
and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and
representatives of individual companies (including lobby consultancies and law firms)
and/or industry associations, in which the PA on Defence Research and the EDRP were
dealt with.
Please find below our answers to your requests:
1. The European Commission’s Preparatory Action on defence research and the future
European Defence Research Programme were discussed during one meeting of
Commissioner Carlos Moedas with the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of
Leonardo SpA, on 15 November 2016;
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: ORBN
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
2. There are no minutes of the above-mentioned meeting;
3. Neither Commissioner Carlos Moedas, nor the members of his Cabinet or DG RTD
officials had any correspondence with representatives of individual companies, including
lobby consultancies and law firms, and/or industry associations on the Preparatory
Action on defence research or on the European Defence Research Programme.
Yours faithfully,
Liliane De Wolf
Head of Unit
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