Ref. Ares(2020)4881178 - 17/09/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
Hans Wetzels
Hereweg 164
6371LZ, Landgraaf
Netherlands
Advance copy by email: ask+request-8374-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/4459
Dear Mr Wetzels,
We refer to your e-mail dated 17 July 2020 in which you make a request for access to documents,
registered on 22 July 2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
Your application for access to documents was split among different Commission services,
whereby each part is attributed to the respective Commission service under a separate Gestdem
reference number. Each Director-General service provides its own, separate reply, which relates
only to the documents held by that service.
DG CLIMA reply covers the following scope “
Any study, impact assessment, forecast, paper or
other document related to, and all correspondence (including emails) sent or received by any
Commission official (including Commissioner Frans Timmermans, Diederik Samson and his
Cabinet members) concerning the following meetings:
i.
20/01/20 between Aleksandra Tomczak and Eurogas on the Challenges and goals for the
gas sector on the way to EU climate neutrality
ii.
28/01/20 between Aleksandra Tomczak and PGE on the Decarbonisation in Poland and
climate neutrality”
Your application concerns the following documents:
Author
Date
Reference
1
Eurogas
13/12/2019
Ares(2019)7680671
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: BU24 01/078 - Tel. direct line +32 229-50164
2
Eurogas
13/12/2019
Ares(2019)7680671
3
European Commission
14/01/2020
Ares(2020)218164
4
PGE/European Commission
05/03/2020
Ares(2020)1379950
Please find the identified document enclosed with this letter. However, I regret to inform you that I
cannot give you access to some parts of the documents.
A complete disclosure of the above-mentioned documents 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 they contain: names and contact information of Commission staff
members not pertaining to the senior management; names and contact details of other natural
persons; other information relating to an identified.
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.
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, access
cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the requested documents, as the need to obtain
access thereto for a purpose in the public interest has not been substantiated and there is no reason to
think that the legitimate interests of the individuals concerned would not be prejudiced by disclosure
of the personal data concerned.
In case you would disagree with this position, you are entitled, in accordance with Article 7(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, to submit 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:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels, or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Luca DE CARLI
2
Electronically signed on 17/09/2020 09:22 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563