Ref. Ares(2020)6297586 - 03/11/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
By registered letter with AR:
Ms Elena Gerebizza
Common, via dei Sardi 28
00185 Rome
Italy
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Subject:
Your e-mail concerning your applications for access to documents
under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2020/4439
Dear Ms Gerebizza,
I refer to your e-mail of 23 September 2020, registered on the same day, in which you
submitted a confirmatory application, in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of
17 July 2020, addressed to the Directorate‑ General for Energy, whereby you requested
access to, I quote:
‘all correspondence (including email) between 1 December 2018 and 12 July
2020 between Commissioner Simson and/or her cabinet and/or officials from
DG Energy on one hand and representatives from IOGP, Shell, the Global CCS
Institute, Hydrogen Europe, Snam and Fleishman Hillard, in which the issue of
hydrogen and/or carbon capture and storage (CCS) were addressed;
list of meetings on these topics that took place between 1 December 2018 and
12 July 2020 between officials and representatives of DG Energy on one hand
and representatives from IOGP, Shell, the Global CCS Institute, Hydrogen
Europe, Snam and Fleishman Hillard on the other; and
the minutes of the meetings mentioned above.’
1 OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
As you did not receive the reply from the above-mentioned Directorate-General within
the statutory time limits, you submitted, on 23 September 2020, the confirmatory
application.
I note, however, that on 27 October 2020, the Directorate-General for Energy provided
you the reply to your initial application.
As the Directorate-General for Energy has in the meantime sent you a full reply to
your application, the Secretariat-General will close this confirmatory application.
Please note that this is without prejudice to your right to submit a new confirmatory
application if you do not agree with the position of the Directorate-General for Energy, as
reflected in its reply of 27 October 2020.
Yours sincerely,
María Oliván Avilés
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 03/11/2020 13:12 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482