Ref. Ares(2021)4518370 - 12/07/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
Will Aitchison
40 Bermondsey Street
London SE1 3UD
United Kingdom
Email: ask+request-9563-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2021/3531
Dear Mr Aitchison,
We refer to your e-mail dated 26 May 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 31 May 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to: “
All documentation, including but not limited to attendance
lists, agendas, background papers, minutes/notes and email correspondence about or
summarising, the following meetings of cabinet members of Commissioner Timermans:
i)
Meeting between L'Oreal and Diederik Samsom, Cabinet member of Frans
Timmermans, and Sarah Nelen, Cabinet member of Frans Timmermans on
19/03/2021 regarding European Green Deal and carbon neutral transport.
ii)
Meeting between L'Oreal and Helena Braun, Cabinet member of Frans
Timmermans, and Antoine Colombani, Cabinet member of Frans
Timmermans on 01/02/2021 regarding Climate neutrality, Biodiversity,
Circular Economy, Sustainable Finance”.
DG CLIMA has identified two documents within the scope of your application.
Author
Date
Reference
1
Hydrogen Europe
18 February 2021
Ares(2021)1344401
2
Hydrogen
18 February 2021
Europe/ALICE
Ares(2021)1344401
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
3
Hydrogen
Europe/European
3 March 2021
Commission
Ares(2021)1604108
4
Hydrogen
Europe/European
2 March 2021
Commission
Ares(2021)1577696
5
European
Commission/L’Oreal
10 December 2020
Ares(2020)7490799
6
European Commission
1 February 2021
Ares(2021)4221778
Following an examination of the documents under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, I regret to inform you that a complete disclosure of documents 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 documents, 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 document 6 was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the
relevant official of the European Commission. It solely reflects the author's interpretation of
the interventions made and does not set out any official position of the third parties to which
the document refers, which was not consulted on its content. It does not reflect the position
of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
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.
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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
3
Electronically signed on 12/07/2021 10:24 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482