Ref. Ares(2022)1133188 - 16/02/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
The Director-General
Brussels
GROW.B.1/MS
Ms Venetia Roxburgh
1 Long Lane Borough
London
United Kingdom
By e-email: ask+request-10333-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/7851
Dear Ms Roxburgh,
We refer to your e-mail of 6 December 2021, registered on 7 December 2021, in which
you make a request for access to documents under the above-mentioned reference
number and to your email of 5 January 2022 clarifying your request.
You request access to: “
All documentation (including but not limited to all email
correspondence, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings
and minutes/notes) relating to the meetings listed below:
1. Between CEMBUREAU and Joan Canton, Cabinet member of Thierry Breton on the
28th September 2021
2. Between CEMBUREAU and Joan Canton, Cabinet member of Thierry Breton and
Thierry Breton on the 24th March 2021
3. Between CEMBUREAU and Gaelle Garnier Cabinet member of Thierry Breton and
Thierry Breton on the 20th April 2020
4. Between CEMBUREAU and Alienor Margerit, Cabinet member of Paolo Gentiloni on
the 8th December 2020”.
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, covering also areas falling under
the responsibility of other Directorates-General, parts of your request have been
attributed to other Directorates-General1. This reply relates only to the documents held by
the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG
GROW). You received /will receive the replies from the other respective Directorates-
General in due course.
We regret to inform you that DG GROW does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the scope of point 2 of your request.
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GESTDEM 2021/7852 – DG ECFIN for point 4 of your request.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
We have identified 3 enclosed documents that fall within the scope of points 1 and 3 of
your request.
A complete disclosure of Documents 1 and 3 is prevented by the exception concerning
the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual outlined in Article 4(1)(b) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, because they contain the following data:
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the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not
pertaining to the senior management;
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the names/initials and contact details of other natural persons;
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other information relating to identified or identifiable natural persons.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation does not allow the transmission of these
personal data, except if you prove that it is necessary to have the data transmitted to you
for a specific purpose in the public interest and where there is no reason to assume that
the legitimate interests of the data subject might be prejudiced. In your request, you do
not express any particular interest to have access to these personal data nor do you put
forward arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific
purpose in the public interest.
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, access cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the requested
documents, as the need to obtain access thereto for a purpose in the public interest has
not been substantiated and there is no reason to think that the legitimate interests of the
individuals concerned would not be prejudiced by disclosure of the personal data
concerned.
Please note that a document originating from third parties is disclosed to you based on
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is without prejudice to the rules
on intellectual property, which may limit your right to reproduce or exploit the released
document without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual property
right on it. The European Commission does not assume any responsibility from its reuse.
In case you would disagree with this position, you are entitled, in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, to submit a confirmatory application requesting
the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon
receipt of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following
address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels, or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Kerstin Jorna
Director-General
e-signed
Enclosure: 3
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Electronically signed on 16/02/2022 10:07 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482