Ref. Ares(2021)1982483 - 19/03/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
The Director-General
Brussels
ENER/DJ/AV (2021) 1846571
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
RINALDI Luca
Via Cordusio, 4
Milan - ITALY
C/o sala stampa nazionale
Advance copy by email :
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Mr Rinaldi,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/0589
We refer to your e-mail of 5 February 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 5 February 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
We regret to inform you that the Commission does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application:
For the period between 1 January 2019 to date:
- a list of all lobby and industry meetings and/or calls held by the Directorate-General for
Energy, including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, during which “deep-sea mining”
and/or “seabed mining” and/or “marine minerals” were discussed.
The list should include: date, individuals attending and organisational affiliation, as well as
the issues discussed;
- all minutes and other reports of these meetings and/or calls;
- all documents prepared for the purpose of the meetings issued both in preparation and
after the meetings took place.
- all correspondence, including attachments (i.e. any emails, mail correspondence or
telephone call notes) between the Directorate-General for Energy, including any Cabinet
Members and/or officials, and any lobby group and/or industry representative discussing
“deep-sea mining” and/or “seabed mining” and/or “marine minerals”.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/084 - Tel. direct line +32 229-62496
xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
The services of the Directorate General for Energy and Cabinet for Commissioner
Simson have searched through their files and in the historical archives (for documents
related to former Commissioner for Energy). The result of this search is that no
documents could be found that would correspond to the description in your request.
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:
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 faithfully,
(e-signed)
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
2
Electronically signed on 12/03/2021 15:56 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482