Ref. Ares(2021)4255651 - 30/06/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D
Ms Belen Balanya
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d’Édimbourg 26
B-1050 Ixelles
Belgium
e-mail:
request-9442-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Consultation pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents – GESTDEM 2021/3012
Dear Ms Balanya,
We refer to your e-mail of 6 May 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 7 May 2021 under the above mentioned reference number. As
communicated on 1 June 2021, the initial time limit of 15 working days for handling
your application was extended by 15 working days, thus until 23 June 2021.
You requested access to the following documents:
1. All correspondence (including emails) between 1 January 2021 and 6 May
2021 between President von der Leyen, EVP Dombrovskis, EVP Timmermans,
Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Breton, and/or their cabinets and/or
officials from DG ENER, DG CLIMA, DG GROW, DG TRADE and
Secretariat-General on one hand and stakeholders on the other, where the issue
of the carbon border adjustment mechanism is addressed.
2. List of meetings, videocalls, or calls between 1 December 2020 and 6 May
2021 between officials and/or representatives of the European Commission and
stakeholders where the issue of the carbon border adjustment mechanism is
addressed.
3. Minutes of the meetings, videocalls, calls mentioned above.
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, covering also areas falling under
the responsibility of other departments, parts of your request have been attributed to other
Directorates-General. You will receive the replies from the other respective Directorates-
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
General in due course. This reply relates only to the exchanges and meetings between the
cabinet of the President and the Secretariat-General on the one hand, and stakeholders on
the other hand, and includes the documents below:
E-mail and annex NL non-paper Fit for 55 non-paper_Considerations
E-mail and annex RO Non-paper climate -EUCO preparation
FI non-paper 2030 climate architecture Feb 2021
Ares (2021)292979 CIP Confederation of Portuguese Business on priorities for
PT Presidency
Ares (2021)3253142 _ Exchanges of e-mail meeting with WKO_
Ares (2021)2428075_ Minutes from the video meeting WKO 07.04.2021
Ares (2021) 3253003_E-mail exchange in organising the video meeting DK
Ares (2021)2507383_ minutes of the meeting with DK on 13.04.2021
You will find
attached to this letter a copy of these documents.
Please note that in line with Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, in
the attached documents, personal data has been redacted. In your request, you do not
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.
Please note that 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.
Yours faithfully,
Elisabeth Werner
Acting Director
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Electronically signed on 30/06/2021 12:05 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482