Ref. Ares(2022)475225 - 21/01/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
SG.C.1
By registered letter with AR
Mr Alex Cranston
1 Long Ln
London
SE1 4PG
United Kingdom
Copy by email: ask+request-9564-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2021/3440
Dear Mr Cranston,
I refer to your e-mail of 14 July 2021, registered on 15 July 2021, by which you submit a
confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of
26 May 2021 in which you requested, I quote:
‘All documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence,
attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and
minutes/notes) relating to the meeting listed below:
1. Between Enviva, Drax Group plc, the US Industrial Pellet Association
(USIPA), & AS Graanul Invest and Laure Chapuis-Kombos, cabinet member of
Commissioner Kadri Simson on 18/05/2021 to discuss the options that the
Commission are currently considering for the review of biomass sustainability
within the proposal for REDIII and to discuss the role of sustainable bioenergy in
the EU’s energy and climate plans.’
1 OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
The initial request was assigned to the Directorate-General for Energy. As you did not
receive an initial reply from that Directorate-General within the statutory time limits, you
submitted a confirmatory application on 14 July 2021.
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on 5 January 2022 (under
reference number Ares(2022)70655).
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory application
related to the lack of initial reply.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the initial
reply of 5 January 2022.
Yours sincerely,
María Oliván Avilés
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 20/01/2022 15:34 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482