Correspondence and meetings fossil fuel industry and Commission on RePowerEU

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Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,

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

1- all correspondence (including email, SMS, private twitter and WhatsApp) since 1st February 2022 between officials from the Secretariat General, particularly the Recovery and Resilience Task Force with representatives from the oil and gas industry, namely the following associations: Eurogas, GIE, Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz, FuelsEurope and GasNaturally in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the RePowerEU communication was discussed.

2- any briefings prepared for the Secretariat General, particularly the Recovery and Resilience Task Force with representatives from the oil and gas industry, namely the following associations: Eurogas, GIE, Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz, FuelsEurope and GasNaturally in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the RePowerEU communication was discussed.

3 - list of meetings since since since 1st February 2022 between officials from the Secretariat General, particularly the Recovery and Resilience Task Force with representatives from the oil and gas industry, namely the following associations: Eurogas, GIE, Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz, FuelsEurope and GasNaturally in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the RePowerEU communication was discussed.

4 - minutes of the meetings mentioned above

5 – any briefings prepared ahead of meetings between officials from the Secretariat General, particularly the Recovery and Resilience Task Force with representatives from the oil and gas industry, namely the following associations: Eurogas, GIE, Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz, FuelsEurope and GasNaturally in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the RePowerEU communication was discussed.

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.
To the extent possible, we prefer the documents in electronic format. Documents that cannot be sent in electronic format should be sent to Food & Water Action Europe, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I 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.

Please find my postal address here:
Frida Kieninger
Rue d’Edimbourg 26,
1050 Ixelles
Belgium

Thank you for your assistance.
Kind regards,
Frida Kieninger

SG ACCES DOCUMENTS, Secretariat General of the European Commission

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail of 20/04/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
21/04/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/2285.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frida Kieninger <[FOI #11044 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 12:48 PM
To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - Correspondence and meetings fossil
fuel industry and Commission on RePowerEU

Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,

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

1- all correspondence (including email, SMS, private twitter and WhatsApp)
since 1st February 2022 between officials from the Secretariat General,
particularly the Recovery and Resilience Task Force with representatives
from the oil and gas industry, namely the following associations: Eurogas,
GIE, Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz, FuelsEurope and GasNaturally in which
the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the RePowerEU
communication was discussed.

2- any briefings prepared for the Secretariat General, particularly the
Recovery and Resilience Task Force with representatives from the oil and
gas industry, namely the following associations: Eurogas, GIE,
Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz, FuelsEurope and GasNaturally in which the
EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the RePowerEU
communication was discussed.

3 - list of meetings since since since 1st February 2022 between officials
from the Secretariat General, particularly the Recovery and Resilience
Task Force with representatives from the oil and gas industry, namely the
following associations: Eurogas, GIE, Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz,
FuelsEurope and GasNaturally in which the EU’s response to Ukraine
invasion, particularly the RePowerEU communication was discussed.

4 - minutes of the meetings mentioned above

5 – any briefings prepared ahead of meetings between officials from the
Secretariat General, particularly the Recovery and Resilience Task Force
with representatives from the oil and gas industry, namely the following
associations: Eurogas, GIE, Gas4Climate, IOGP, Marcogaz, FuelsEurope and
GasNaturally in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly
the RePowerEU communication was discussed.

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.
To the extent possible, we prefer the documents in electronic format.
Documents that cannot be sent in electronic format should be sent to Food
& Water Action Europe, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial
or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also
I 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.

Please find my postal address here:
Frida Kieninger
Rue d’Edimbourg 26,
1050 Ixelles
Belgium

Thank you for your assistance.
Kind regards,
Frida Kieninger

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Dear Mrs Kieninger,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents registered on 21.04.2022
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 expires today.

 

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 08.06.2022.

 

We thank you for your comprehension and apologise for this delay and for
any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Yours faithfully,

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