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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
Venatia Roxburgh
1 Long Lane
London SE1 4PG
United Kingdom
Email: ask+request-10454-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2022/0081
Dear Ms Roxburgh,
We refer to your e-mail dated 5 January 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested 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:
i)
Between Accenture and Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero, Cabinet member of
Miguel Arias Cañete on the 9th February 2018
ii)
Between Accenture and Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete on the 7th
February 2017
iii)
Between Eurofer and Mauro Raffaele Petriccione, Director-General on the
1st July 2021”
The Directorate General for Climate Action has identified one document that falls under
the scope of the request.
Following an examination of the document under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, I regret to inform you that a complete disclosure of document 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 it contains names of
Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management and contact details of
other 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
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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
any 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 document, 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.
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 sincerely,
(e-signed)
Luca DE CARLI
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Electronically signed on 13/01/2022 10:06 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482