Ref. Ares(2021)3109757 - 10/05/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D/EW
Ms Venetia Roxburgh
sent by e-mail : ask+request-9349-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Roxburgh,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2021/2417
We refer to your request addressed to the Commission to access documents, dated
16/04/2021, registered on 16/04/2021 under the following reference number: GESTDEM
2021/2417.
Please find enclosed documents falling within the scope of your request, namely copies
of correspondence regarding the:
(1) meeting between Air Products, Tata Steel Europe (Tata Steel Europe), Dow Europe
GmbH (Dow), ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical (EMPC) and a Member of Cabinet of
the Executive Vice-President Timmermans of 23 March 2021, and
(2) the meeting between Dow Europe and a Member of Cabinet of the Executive Vice-
President Timmermans of 9 March 2021.
Please note that, in line with Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, in the
attached document, personal data has been redacted. In your request, you do neither
express any particular interest to have access to these personal data, nor put forward any
arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in
the public interest.
In case you 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
Secretary-General Transparency unit SG-C.l
BERL 7/076
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
e-signed
Elisabeth WERNER
(acting) Director
Enclosure:
email correspondence
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Electronically signed on 10/05/2021 08:35 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482