Lobby meetings on the "Hydrogen and decarbonised gas package"

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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

Please can you provide:
- a list of meetings held from 1 July 2021 on the topic of the "Hydrogen and decarbonised gas package" between DG Energy and any of the following stakeholders: Repsol, Iberdrola, Enagas, Naturgy, Eni, Enel, Snam, Gasunie, Shell, Uniper, OpenGrid Europe, Ontras, Equinor and/or National Grid;

- minutes/notes from the said meetings held from 1 July 2021 on the topic of the "Hydrogen and decarbonised gas package" between DG Energy and any of the following stakeholders: Repsol, Iberdrola, Enagas, Naturgy, Eni, Enel, Snam, Gasunie, Shell, Uniper, OpenGrid Europe, Ontras, Equinor and/or National Grid;

- all correspondence (including all attachments) from 1 July 2021 on the topic of the "Hydrogen and decarbonised gas package" between DG Energy and any of the following stakeholders: Repsol, Iberdrola, Enagas, Naturgy, Eni, Enel, Snam, Gasunie, Shell, Uniper, OpenGrid Europe, Ontras, Equinor and/or National Grid;

Yours faithfully,

Pascoe Sabido

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

My address for any correspondence (in addition to email) is:

Corporate Europe Observatory
Rud d'Edimbourg 36
Bruxelles 1050
Belgium

Yours faithfully,

Pascoe Sabido

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Dear Mr Sabido,

 

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Dear [email address],

This response is well overdue and by law you should have responded by now. Please can you let me know when to expect the documents.

Yours sincerely,

Pascoe Sabido

LIJEWSKA Ewa (ENER), Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear ENER C3 NOTIFICATIONS,

Thank you for the documents provided.

I wanted to ask some follow up questions:

- were there no other communications with the stakeholders about whom documents were already identified (Enagás and ZEP), e.g. email correspondence to set up the meeting, follow-up from the meeting? (just to be 100% sure)

- In the minutes of the meeting between the Commission and ZEP, another stakeholder is present with the initials POG, but it is not clear which organisation they represent (ZEP or a member?). Could you spell out the acronym. And there was a second person from the European Commission present but their name was not listed, not even the unit. It's a matter of public interest to know which officials are meeting with private lobbying interests, so please can you disclose this.

- the request was initially sent to DG GROW (in addition to the request sent to DG ENER). Does this mean that there were no meetings between DG GROW and the listed stakeholders?

Yours sincerely,

Pascoe Sabido