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Dear DG Clima, Dg Grow, DG Energy, Secretariat General,
From: Belen Balanya, Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels.
8 December 2021 RE: Access to Documents related Hydrogen Neighbourhoods

Dear sirs,

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) since 1st January 2021 between Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Timmermans, Commissioner Breton, President van der Leyen, and/or their cabinets and/or officials from DG Energy, DG Clima, DG Grow and/or Secretariat General on one hand and any stakeholder on the other, in which the “EU Neighbourhoods”, as mentioned in the European Clean Hydrogen Strategy, were addressed.

2 - list of meetings since since 1st January 2021 between Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Timmermans, Commissioner Breton, President van der Leyen, and/or their cabinets and/or officials from DG Energy, DG Clima, DG Grow and/or Secretariat General on one hand and any stakeholder on the other, in which the “EU Neighbourhoods”, as mentioned in the European Clean Hydrogen Strategy, were addressed

3 - minutes of the meetings mentioned above

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 Corporate Europe Observatory, 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.

Thank you for your assistance.

Belen Balanya
Corporate Europe Observatory

SG ACCES DOCUMENTS, Energy

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Dear Madam,

 

Thank you for your e-mail of 8 December 2021. We hereby acknowledge
receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered
on 09/12/2021 and distributed among various DGs under following reference
numbers:

 

- GESTDEM 2021/8008 – DG CLIMA,

- GESTDEM 2021/8009 – DG ENER,

- GESTDEM 2021/8010 – DG GROW and

- GESTDEM 2021/8011 – SG.

 

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 January 2022. 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
[5]Privacy statement - access to documents.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

 

ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)

 

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European Commission

Secretariat-General

SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)

[7][email address]

 

 

 

 

 

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CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Energy

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Dear Ms Balanya,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents dated 8 December 2021,
registered on 9 December 2021 under the above mentioned reference number.

 

We are not in a position to complete the handling of your application
within the time limit of 15 working days, which expires on 10 January
2022.

 

In accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents we have to extend the time limit by 15 working
days, the new deadline is set for 31 January 2022.

 

We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Sincerely,

 

Access to Documents team

 

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European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

 

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ENER-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Energy

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Dear Ms Balanya,

 

We refer to your e-mail of 08 December 2021 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 09 December 2021 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 on 10
January 2022.

An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns documents
held by different Services, which must be consulted.

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 31 January 2022.

We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

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European Commission

 

DG Energy

DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [2][email address]

 

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GROW-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Energy

Dear Ms Balanya,

We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 16/12/2021
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 on 17/01/2022.

An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns documents
held by different Services which must be consulted.

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 07/02/2022.

We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

Yours sincerely,

GROW ATD TEAM

               

CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Energy

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Dear Ms Balanya,

 

Enclosed please find a copy of our 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 24

1049 Brussels

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SG UNITE D-2, Energy

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[4]request for clarification - GESTDEM 2021/8011 - Ares(2022)672977 
(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 Mrs Balanya,

We refer to your email of 8 December 2021 in which you make a request for
access to documents under the above-mentioned reference number and to our
email to extend the deadline till the 31.01.2022.

The description given in your application makes it very difficult for 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.

In order to properly address and allocate your request, could you kindly,
if possible, specify the countries you are referring to when mentioning
“EU Neighbourhoods”, or more specific topics that were discussed in the
framework of the Clean Hydrogen Strategy.

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us by email to SG UNITE D-2 [5][email address]

In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 (Official Journal
OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94), the deadline of 15 working days for handling
your application will start running when we receive the requested
clarifications.

We thank you in advance for your understanding.

Best Regards

The Secretariat SG.D2

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GROW-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Energy

Dear Madam ,

We refer to your request for access to documents registered under the
above mentioned reference number.

The reply to your request could not be finalised yesterday. Therefore, we
are not in a position to complete the handling of your application within
the extended time limit of 15 working days, which expires yesterday
(07/02/2022). Please be reassured that we are doing our best to be able to
send you the reply as soon as possible.

We apologise for this additional delay and for any inconvenience this may
cause.

Kind regards,

DG GROW ATD Team

GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS, Energy

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Dear Madame,

please find here enclosed the reply to you access to document request registered under the number GESTDEM 2021/8010.

Kindly.

DG GROW – Access to documents team

SG UNITE D-2, Energy

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[4]REMINDER - request for clarification - GESTDEM 2021/8011 -
Ares(2022)672977 - Ares(2022)2661577  (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 Mrs Balanya,

 

This is a kind reminder on the request for clarification sent on 28
January 2022.

We kindly invite you to provide us with more detailed information on the
documents you request by return of this email and no later than Friday 15
April 2022.

 

After that deadline we will assume you no longer need this information and
we will close the request in our files.

 

We thank you very much in advance,

Regards

SG.D2

 

 

From: SG UNITE D-2 <[email address]>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 4:42 PM
To: [FOI #10355 email]
Cc: SG UNITE D-2 <[email address]>
Subject: request for clarification - GESTDEM 2021/8011 - Ares(2022)672977

 

[5]request for clarification - GESTDEM 2021/8011 - Ares(2022)672977 
(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 Mrs Balanya,

We refer to your email of 8 December 2021 in which you make a request for
access to documents under the above-mentioned reference number and to our
email to extend the deadline till the 31.01.2022.

The description given in your application makes it very difficult for 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.

In order to properly address and allocate your request, could you kindly,
if possible, specify the countries you are referring to when mentioning
“EU Neighbourhoods”, or more specific topics that were discussed in the
framework of the Clean Hydrogen Strategy.

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us by email to SG UNITE D-2 [6][email address]

In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 (Official Journal
OJ L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94), the deadline of 15 working days for handling
your application will start running when we receive the requested
clarifications.

We thank you in advance for your understanding.

Best Regards

The Secretariat SG.D2

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ENER UNIT C2, Energy

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Dear SG UNITE D-2,

Apologies for sending the clarification you requested on GESTDEM 2021/8011 - Ares(2022)672977 this late, I had not seen it as it was received not under my request to SG but mixed among DG Energy responses.
I refer to the MENA region and Ukraine,

Looking for a prompt response

Yours sincerely,

Belen Balanya

SG UNITE D-2, Energy

[1]RE: REMINDER - request for clarification - GESTDEM 2021/8011 -
Ares(2022)2661577 - Ares(2022)3752983  (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 Mrs Balanya,

We refer to your email of yesterday.
We regret to inform that we closed the GESTDEM 2021/8011 after we received
no reply on our emails of 28 January and 7 April.
The deadline to reply our reminder for the request for clarification was
15 April 2022.
Therefore the GESTDEM 2021/8011 was closed on the 16 April 2022.

Regards
SG.D2

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