Access to documents request: June 15 meeting between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies

The request was successful.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on June 15 between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies.

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace

ve_sg.accessdoc (SG), Climate Action

[1]RE: access to documents request - Access to documents request: June 15
meeting between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies --- Ref. Gestdem
2021/4222 - Ares(2021)4159272

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Dear Sir,

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 25/06/2021 under reference number GESTDEM
2021/4222.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days.

The time limit will expire on 16/07/2021. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union.
Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any
technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website
is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data
via that website, and not the Commission.
For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s
privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
the AsktheEU.org website.

If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is
published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can
provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future
electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address,
and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You
should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website
about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply
from, the Commission.

For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
Privacy statement – access to documents.

Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team (rc)
SG.C.1
Transparency

-----Original Message-----
From: Barnaby Pace <[FOI #9711 email]>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:33 PM
To: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - Access to documents request: June
15 meeting between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies

Dear Sir or Madam,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents
and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to
the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails,
minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings,
verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and
presentations—related to the meeting on June 15 between Aleksandra Tomczak
and Shell Companies.

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the
COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling
basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations
concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the
Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial
or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also
I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial
exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your
reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do
not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for
any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue
Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU
and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the
AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #9711 email]

If [DG CLIMA request email] is the wrong address for
information requests to Climate Action, please tell the AsktheEU.org team
on email [email address]

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CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Climate Action

Dear Mr Pace,

Thank you for email from 24 June 2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 30 June 2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/4316.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on 22 July 2021. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data via that website, and not the Commission. For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by the AsktheEU.org website.

If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address, and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply from, the Commission.

For information on how we process your personal data visit our page Privacy statement – access to documents.

Yours sincerely,

Access to Documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Climate Action
Av. de Beaulieu 24
1049 Brussels

-----Original Message-----
From: Barnaby Pace <[FOI #9711 email]>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:33 PM
To: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - Access to documents request: June 15 meeting between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies

Dear Sir or Madam,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on June 15 between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies.

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request: [FOI #9711 email]

If [DG CLIMA request email] is the wrong address for information requests to Climate Action, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email [email address]

This message and all replies from Climate Action will be published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our dedicated page for EU public officials at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www....

Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will be delayed.

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CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Climate Action

Dear Mr Pace,

Please disregard our last email. Your request was previously registered under reference Gestdem 2021/4222 and is already being treated.

We apologise for this error.

Yours sincerely,

Access to Documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Climate Action
Av. de Beaulieu 24
1049 Brussels

-----Original Message-----
From: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 9:52 AM
To: 'Barnaby Pace' <[FOI #9711 email]>
Cc: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: RE: access to documents request - Access to documents request: June 15 meeting between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies

Dear Mr Pace,

Thank you for email from 24 June 2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 30 June 2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/4316.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on 22 July 2021. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data via that website, and not the Commission. For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by the AsktheEU.org website.

If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address, and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply from, the Commission.

For information on how we process your personal data visit our page Privacy statement – access to documents.

Yours sincerely,

Access to Documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Climate Action
Av. de Beaulieu 24
1049 Brussels

-----Original Message-----
From: Barnaby Pace <[FOI #9711 email]>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:33 PM
To: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - Access to documents request: June 15 meeting between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies

Dear Sir or Madam,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on June 15 between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies.

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request: [FOI #9711 email]

If [DG CLIMA request email] is the wrong address for information requests to Climate Action, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email [email address]

This message and all replies from Climate Action will be published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our dedicated page for EU public officials at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www....

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SG UNITE D-2, Climate Action

[1]RE: access to documents request - GESTDEM 2021/4222 deadline extension
- Ares(2021)4710074  (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user –
Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares)

Dear Mr Pace,

I refer to your request dated 24/06/2021, registered on 25/06/2021, in
which you make a request for access to documents under the above mentioned
reference number. Your application is currently being handled. However, we
will not be in a position to complete the handling of your application
within the time limit of 15 working days, which expired on 16/07/2021.
An extended time limit is needed as the handling of your application could
not yet be completed at this stage. Therefore, we have to extend the time
limit with 15 working days in accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents. The new time limit
expires on 09/08/2021.

I apologise for any inconvenience this delay may cause.

Yours sincerely,

European Commission
Secretariat-General
Unit D-2

-----Original Message-----
From: Barnaby Pace <[FOI #9711 email]>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:33 PM
To: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - Access to documents request: June
15 meeting between Aleksandra Tomczak and Shell Companies

Dear Sir or Madam,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents
and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to
the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails,
minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings,
verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and
presentations—related to the meeting on June 15 between Aleksandra Tomczak
and Shell Companies.

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the
COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling
basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations
concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the
Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial
or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also
I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial
exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your
reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do
not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for
any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue
Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU
and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the
AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #9711 email]

If [DG CLIMA request email] is the wrong address for
information requests to Climate Action, please tell the AsktheEU.org team
on email [email address]

This message and all replies from Climate Action will be published on the
AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our dedicated page for EU
public officials at
[2]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www....

Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.

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