Ref. Ares(2021)7833259 - 17/12/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy: Strategy and Coordination
A.5 - Planning and Legal Affairs
Brussels, 17 December 2021
ENER/ACB (2021)8822040
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
Cranston Alex
1 Long Lane,
London
United Kingdom
Advance copy by email :
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/3463
Dear Mr Cranston,
We refer to your email of 27 May 2021 in which you make a request for access to documents,
registered on 27 May 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in replying to your request, due to the exceptional
workload related to the ‘Delivering the European Green Deal’ legislative package.
You request access to:
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:
Between Laure Chapuis-Kombos, cabinet member of Commissioner Kadri Simson, and Arla
Foods amba (Arla) on 05/05/2021 to discuss ongoing developments around key energy dossiers
relevant for Arla including Methane Strategy, RED II revision, bioeconomy and biogas.
Your application concerns the following documents:
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 07/143 - Tel. direct line +32 229-67304
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Ares reference
Date
Title
Ares(2021)1588897
02/03/2021
MEETING REQUEST LC - KN open date - with Executive Vice
President for Arla Foods to discuss Methane Strategy, RED II
revision, bioeconomy and biogas
Ares(2021)2840718
28/04/2021
Completion of Climate Check decarbonisation tool for dairy
farmers
Ares(2021)7574099
05/05/2021
Meeting Minutes Laure Chapuis with Arla Foods representatives
I am glad to inform you that you can have wide partial access to all documents, subject only to the
redaction of personal data. Please find enclosed redacted copies of these documents.
A complete disclosure of these 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 the following personal data:
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the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining
to the senior management;
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the names and contact details of other natural persons.
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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.
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.
Access is granted to minutes of a meeting with external parties. This document was drawn up for
internal use under the responsibility of the relevant service. It solely reflects the service’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 accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make 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 (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
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Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Anne-Charlotte BOURNOVILLE
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 17/12/2021 16:11 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
