Ref. Ares(2021)72679 - 05/01/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy
A.1 – Strategy and Policy Coordination
Brussels
ENER/PP/AV (2021)49877
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
Venetia Roxburgh
40 Bermondsey Street
London
United Kingdom
Advance copy by email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/6862
Dear Ms Roxburgh,
We refer to your e-mail dated 10/11/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
All documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence, attendance
lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and minutes/notes) relating to
the meeting listed below:
Between Kadri Simson and Ørsted A/S, WindEurope, Siemens Gamesa Renewable
Energy (SGRE), Vestas Wind Systems A/S, IBERDROLA (IBE) and Vattenfall on the 20th
October 2020
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Ares(2020)4896615 18/09/2020 Invitation Commissioner Kadri Simson - No date -
Online event - Launch report on economic
benefits of wind
Ares(2020)7509067 20/10/2020 Briefing for 20/10/2020 - Commissioner Kadri
Simson's videoconference with CEOs of the
leading Offshore Companies
Ares(2020)5756857 22/10/2020 Follow-up to meeting with WindEurope held on
20/10/2020
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/153 - Tel. direct line +32 229-20815
xxxxx.xxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Ares(2020)5811058 23/10/2020 Follow-up to meeting with WindEurope held on
20/10/2020
We are glad to inform you that you can have wide partial access to the document, subject
only to the redaction of personal data.
Complete disclosure of this document 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 name 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 some 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 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 Secretariat-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 Bruxelles
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Paula PINHO
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Electronically signed on 05/01/2021 12:00 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482