Ref. Ares(2021)6644395 - 28/10/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY, FINANCIAL SERVICES AND CAPITAL
MARKETS UNION
Horizontal policies
Sustainable Finance
Brussels
FISMA.B.2/nmMS/6883340
Mr Vivek Parekh
1 Long Ln
London
UNITED KINGDOM
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx By e-mail only
Dear Sir,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/5498
We refer to your e-mail of 17 September 2021, in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned reference number.
Your request reads as follows:
All documentation (including but not limited to all email
correspondence, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and
minutes/notes) relating to the meetings listed below: 1. Between Gas Distributors for Sustainability
(GD4S) and Katherine Power, Cabinet member of Commissioner Mairead McGuinness, and Peter
Power, Cabinet member of Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on 14th September 2021.
We have identified two documents falling under the scope of your request, which you will find
attached: Briefing no. 423 and minutes of the meeting (FISMA/12504). Please note that Gas
Distributors for Sustainability shared with our services a White Paper that is publicly available online
on their website.
Please note that these documents were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the
relevant services of DG FISMA. They solely reflect the services’ interpretation, including about the
interventions made, and do not set out any official position of the third parties to which the
document refers, which were not consulted on their content. They do not reflect the position of the
Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Martin Spolc
Head of Unit
Contact: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Electronically signed on 28/10/2021 09:19 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
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