Ref. Ares(2021)4718248 - 22/07/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D/EW
Mr Alex Cranston
1 Long Ln, London
United Kingdom
send by e-mail : ask+request-9705-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2021/4216
Dear Mr Cranston,
We refer to your e-mail dated 23 June 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 25 June under the above-mentioned reference number.
In your email, you requested 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 between Shell Companies and
Aleksandra Tomczak, the Cabinet member of the Executive Vice-President Mr.
Timmermans on 15 June 2021.
Together with this letter, please find enclosed the document falling within the scope of
your request. Please note that in line with Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, personal data have 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.
In case you 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
Secretary-General Transparency unit SG-C.l
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Elisabeth WERNER
(acting) Director
e-signed
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Electronically signed on 22/07/2021 12:23 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482