Ref. Ares(2021)3993382 - 18/06/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
Pascoe Sabido
Corporate Europe Observatory
Mundo B
26 Rue d'Edimbourg
Bruxelles 1050
Belgium
Email: ask+request-9450-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2021/3070
Dear Mr Sabido,
We refer to your e-mail dated 7 May 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 10 May 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to: “
documents which contain the following information:
i)
a list of all meetings between DG Clima and stakeholders on the Hydrogen
Act (stand-alone hydrogen legislation eventually proposed by Hydrogen
Europe in April 2021) and/or any other stand-alone hydrogen legislation,
covering July 2020 to the present day
ii)
minutes of all said meetings between DG Clima and stakeholders on the
Hydrogen Act (stand-alone hydrogen legislation eventually proposed by
Hydrogen Europe in April 2021) and/or any other stand-alone hydrogen
legislation, covering July 2020 to the present day
iii)
all correspondence between DG Clima and stakeholders on the Hydrogen Act
(stand-alone hydrogen legislation eventually proposed by Hydrogen Europe
in April 2021) and/or any other stand-alone hydrogen legislation, covering
July 2020 to the present day”
DG CLIMA has identified one documents within the scope of your application. The
document is identified with reference Ares(2021)3788032.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Following an examination of the document under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, I regret to inform you that a complete disclosure of the 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: names
and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior
management; names and contact details of other natural persons and other information
relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
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.
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, access cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the document, as the
need to obtain access thereto for a purpose in the public interest has not been substantiated
and there is no reason to think that the legitimate interests of the individuals concerned
would not be prejudiced by disclosure of the personal data concerned.
Please note that the list of meetings of the Director-General of DG CLIMA with
organisations and self-employed individuals are available in the links enclosed below:
http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyinitiative/meetings/meeting.do?host=d41e42be-7ff1-4635-
bb4f-e47d38f886ed
In case you would 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
Secretariat-General
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels, or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Luca DE CARLI
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Electronically signed on 11/06/2021 11:20 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482