Ref. Ares(2021)7015328 - 15/11/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL
AFFAIRS AND INCLUSION
Jobs and Skills
Skills Agenda
Brussels
EMPL.B.2/AC/ab(2021)7893152
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
GINES Ricardo
Residencial Don Paco
Avda. de la P. S. Bloque 2 B. Piso 6 B
04740-Almería, Spain
Advance copy by email : ask+request-9984-
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/6134
Dear Mr Ginés,
We refer to your e-mail dated 29 September 2021 in which you make a request for access
to documents, registered on 3 October 2021 under the above mentioned reference
number.
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 meetings listed below:
1) 03/03/2021 (video call) - Roundtable with transport value chain alliance -
Transformation of the automotive value chain in the context of green recovery -
meeting with Daniel Mes, Cabinet member of Frans Timmermans - European
Green Deal.
2) 03/03/2021 (Video-conference) - Roundtable with transport value chain alliance -
Transformation of the automotive value chain in the context of green recovery. –
meeting with Christoph Nerlich, Anouk Faber, Cabinet members of Nicolas
Schmit - Jobs and Social Rights.
3) 08/04/2020 – (Video-conference) impact of Covid 19 on oil sector, role of clean
energy investment for recovery; gas sector (LNG, hydrogen, clean transition);
low carbon electricity & solar; Green Deal – meeting with Kitti Nyitrai, Stefano
Grassi, Laure Chapuis Kombos, Cabinet members of Kadri Simson – Energy
4) 17/01/2019 (Madrid) - Latest developments in Energy and Climate policies, in
particular the Long-Term Strategy – meeting with Miguel Arias Cañete,
Commissioner - Climate Action & Energy
5) 09/02/2018 (Madrid) - Renewable Energy Directive – meeting with Maria
Cristina Lobillo Borrero, Cabinet member of Miguel Arias Cañete - Climate
Action & Energy
6) 06/03/2017 (Brussels) – Renewables - meeting with Maria Cristina Lobillo
Borrero, Cabinet member of Miguel Arias Cañete - Climate Action & Energy
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Ares(2021)1597981
03/03/2021
Follow-up from the transport
industry value chain – workshop
on the transformation of the
automotive industry by 2050 in
the context of green recovery –
ZF Group, BMW Group, Total,
Bosch,
Daimler,
Mahle
International + REPLY
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, covering also areas falling under the
responsibility of other Directorates-General, parts of your request have been attributed to
other Directorates-General1. This reply relates only to the documents held by Directorate-
General for Employment, Social affairs and inclusion. You will receive the replies from the
other respective Directorates-General in due course.
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:
-the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining to
the senior management;
-the names and contact details of other natural persons.
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
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GESTDEM 2021/5862 was attributed to DG ENER
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nor do you put forward any arguments to establish the necessity to have the data
transmitted for a specific purpose in the public interest.
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
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours Sincerely,
Electronically signed
Alison Crabb
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 15/11/2021 15:31 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482