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Katarina Kertysova

Dear Energy,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

- Intensification Sino-European talks on climate change.
- The response of the United States in this regard.
- The steps the EU is taking (or intends to take) to balance out its growing energy transition dependence on China.
Yours faithfully,

Katarina Kertysova
Policy Fellow
European Leadership Network (ELN)

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your request for access to documents.

Unfortunately, you have not indicated your postal address and you complete name. This is necessary for registering and handling your request in line with the procedural requirements.

Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience. Pending your reply, we reserve the right to refuse the registration of your request.

Alternatively, you may use directly the electronic form available on the Europa website:

http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/....

Best regards,

Access to documents team
SG.C.1
Transparency

-----Original Message-----
From: Katarina Kertysova <[FOI #8468 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 3:21 PM
To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - EU-China relationship on climate change

Dear Energy,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

- Intensification Sino-European talks on climate change.
- The response of the United States in this regard.
- The steps the EU is taking (or intends to take) to balance out its growing energy transition dependence on China.
Yours faithfully,

Katarina Kertysova
Policy Fellow
European Leadership Network (ELN)

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Katarina Kertysova

Dear Energy,

Thank you for getting back to me. My full name is KATARINA KERTYSOVA, I work as Policy Fellow at the European Leadership Network (ELN) in London and my current postal address is Pod zahradami 64, 841 02 Dubravka, Bratislava, Slovakia.

If possible, I would prefer if you could share the documents with me electronically. Thank you in advance for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Katarina Kertysova

Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
 
 
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
 
 
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Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
 
 

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Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail of 20/08/2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
20/08/2020 under reference number GESTDEM 2020/4931.

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 10/09/2020. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Katarina Kertysova <[FOI #8468 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 3:21 PM
To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - EU-China relationship on climate
change

Dear Energy,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the
following information:

- Intensification Sino-European talks on climate change.
- The response of the United States in this regard.
- The steps the EU is taking (or intends to take) to balance out its
growing energy transition dependence on China.
Yours faithfully,

Katarina Kertysova
Policy Fellow
European Leadership Network (ELN)

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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 #8468 email]

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

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Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail of 20/08/2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
20/08/2020 under reference:

·       number GESTDEM 2020/4931 for documents concerning DG ENER and

·       number GESTDEM 2020/5019 for documents concerning DG CLIMA.

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 10/09/2020. 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)

-----Original Message-----
From: Katarina Kertysova <[5][FOI #8468 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 3:21 PM
To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[6][email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - EU-China relationship on climate
change

Dear Energy,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the
following information:

- Intensification Sino-European talks on climate change.
- The response of the United States in this regard.
- The steps the EU is taking (or intends to take) to balance out its
growing energy transition dependence on China.
Yours faithfully,

Katarina Kertysova
Policy Fellow
European Leadership Network (ELN)

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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:
[7][FOI #8468 email]

If [8][DG ENER request email] is the wrong address for information
requests to Energy, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email
[9][email address]

This message and all replies from Energy will be published on the
AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our dedicated page for EU
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Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
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Dear Ms Kertysova,

We refer to your e-mail of  19 August 2020 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 20 August 2020 under the above
mentioned reference number.

In your email, you requested access to “documents which contain the
following information:

- Intensification Sino-European talks on climate change.

- The response of the United States in this regard”

 

The description given in your application does not enable us to identify
concrete documents, which would correspond to your request.

We therefore invite you, in accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, to provide us with
more detailed information on the documents you request, such as
references, dates or periods during which the documents would have been
drawn up, persons or bodies who drafted the documents.

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us:

·         by email to: [email address]

In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of  Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 [1]^^[1], the
deadline of 15 working days for handling your application will start
running when we receive the requested clarifications.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Yours faithfully,

Access to Documents team

 

    

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

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[2][1]              Official Journal L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94.

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Dear Ms Kertysova,

 

As regards the third point of your request, please find attached the Joint
Statement on the Implementation of the EU-China Energy Cooperation signed
in 2019 which outlines the current overall political framework for the
EU-China energy relations. The Joint Statement was signed by then Climate
Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete and his Chinese
counterpart, Zhang Jianhua, the Administrator of the National Energy
Administration of China.

 

I would also like to invite you to consult the webpage of the
Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission dedicated to
EU-China energy relations:
[1]https://ec.europa.eu/energy/topics/inter...
as well as the summary of discussions of the last EU-China Energy Dialogue
on 22 June 2020 that was held between Energy Commission Kadri Simson and
her Chinese counterpart Zhang Jianhua, the Administrator of the National
Energy Administration
[2]https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/commissio....

 

I would also like to invite you to consult the website of the EU-China
Energy Cooperation Platform, where you will find additional information on
how the EU-China Energy Cooperation is implemented in practice
[3]http://www.ececp.eu/en/.

 

Best regards,

 

 

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European Commission

 

DG Energy

DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [5][email address]

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Katarina Kertysova <[6][FOI #8468 email]>

Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 3:21 PM

To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[7][email address]>

Subject: access to documents request - EU-China relationship on climate
change

 

Dear Energy,

 

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the
following information:

 

- Intensification Sino-European talks on climate change.

- The response of the United States in this regard.

- The steps the EU is taking (or intends to take) to balance out its
growing energy transition dependence on China.

Yours faithfully,

 

Katarina Kertysova

Policy Fellow

European Leadership Network (ELN)

 

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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:
[8][FOI #8468 email]

 

If [9][DG ENER request email] is the wrong address for information
requests to Energy, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email
[10][email address]

 

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

 

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

 

 

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Dear Ms Kertysova,

 

We refer to the clarification request sent to you on 7 September 2020 (see
email below). We have not obtained any reply yet.

 

In accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents, we would like to reiterate our request in
order to enable us to identify concrete documents, which would correspond
to your request.

 

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us:

·         by email to: [1][email address]

Yours faithfully,

Access to Documents team

 

    

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

 

From: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 4:26 PM
To: 'Katarina Kertysova' <[FOI #8468 email]>
Cc: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/5019

 

Dear Ms Kertysova,

We refer to your e-mail of  19 August 2020 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 20 August 2020 under the above
mentioned reference number.

In your email, you requested access to “documents which contain the
following information:

- Intensification Sino-European talks on climate change.

- The response of the United States in this regard”

 

The description given in your application does not enable us to identify
concrete documents, which would correspond to your request.

We therefore invite you, in accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, to provide us with
more detailed information on the documents you request, such as
references, dates or periods during which the documents would have been
drawn up, persons or bodies who drafted the documents.

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us:

·         by email to: [2][email address]

In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of  Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 [3]^[1], the deadline
of 15 working days for handling your application will start running when
we receive the requested clarifications.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Yours faithfully,

Access to Documents team

 

    

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

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[4][1]              Official Journal L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94.

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Dear Ms Kertysova,

 

Further to your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2020/5019, please find attached the reply.

 

According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered post. Please note, however, that due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to
the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice.

 

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present
e-mail by replying to [1][email address]

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Access to Documents team

 

    

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 31

1049 Brussels

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Kertysova,

 

We replied to your request on 26 October 2020. As explained in our email,
due to the the extraordinary health and security measures currently in
force, we could not send you the reply by registered post.

 

Hence, we would appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the e-mail of
26 October by replying to [1][email address]

 

Many thanks for your cooperation

 

Kind regards,

 

Access to Documents team

 

    

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

 

From: CLIMA ACCESS DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:44 AM
To: [FOI #8468 email]
Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2020/5019

 

Dear Ms Kertysova,

 

Further to your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2020/5019, please find attached the reply.

 

According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered post. Please note, however, that due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to
the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice.

 

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present
e-mail by replying to [2][email address]

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Access to Documents team

 

    

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 31

1049 Brussels

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Kertysova,

 

As explained in our reply to your access to documents request, due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to
the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we were unfortunately not in a position to
send the reply to you by registered post.

 

Thus, we would be grateful if you could confirm receipt of the e-mail sent
to you on 3 November 2020 by replying to
[1][email address].

 

Many thanks for your cooperation.

 

Access to Documents team

 

    

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

 

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