Ref. Ares(2022)1227114 - 18/02/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Directorate I – Legal, procedural and inter-institutional affairs
I.1 – Agricultural law and enforcement
Brussels
AGRI.I.1/CCLRW D(2022)716140
Dear Madam,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/142
We refer to your e-mail of 5/01/2022 in which you make a request for access to documents,
registered on 10/01/2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.
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 Eurofer and Jorge Pinto Antunes, Cabinet member of Janusz Wojciechowski Maciej
Golubiewski, Cabinet member of Janusz Wojciechowsk on the 19th October 2021
2. Between Eurofer and Antoine Colombani, Cabinet member of Frans Timmermans on the 7th
June 2021
3. Between Eurofer and Gints Freimanis, Cabinet member of Valdis Dombrovskis on the 3rd May
2021
Please note that this answer only concerns documents authored and possessed by Directorate-
General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI). Concerning the remaining part of
your request, you will receive separate replies from other Directorates-General.1
We have identified five documents with three annexes falling within the scope of the point 1 of
your request. One of these documents was registered at DG AGRI, but it falls under the
responsibility of DG COMP, therefore this part of your request will be assessed by DG COMP.
You will find enclosed a list of the other four documents identified, as well as copies of these
documents, with their annexes attached.
With regard to the documents mentioned above, a complete disclosure of the identified documents 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
personal data:
1 SG Gestdem 2022/141, TRADE Gestdem 2022/143, COMP Gestdem 2022/861
Venetia ROXBURGH
1 Long Lane
Borough
London
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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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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handwritten signatures/abbreviated signatures of natural persons;
In your application, you indicate that your address is in the United Kingdom. Transfers of personal
data from the Commission to countries that are not members of the European Economic Area
(EEA), or to international organisations are regulated under Chapter V of the Data Protection
Regulation2.
According to Article 47(1) of this Regulation, a transfer of personal data to a third country or an
international organisation may take place where the Commission has decided that the third country, a
territory or one or more specified sectors within that country, or the international organisation in
question ensures an adequate level of protection and where the personal data are transferred solely to
allow tasks within the competence of the controller to be carried out.
Based on the information available, the country of your residence is recognised by the Commission
as ensuring an adequate level of protection. However, we would further like to inform you that
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 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 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 documents originating from third parties are 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 documents
without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual property right on them. The
European Commission does not assume any responsibility from their 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,
2 Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the
protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions,
bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No
45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC, OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39.
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or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Cristina Carrasco Lorente
Head of Unit
Enclosure:
List of the identified documents and 7 documents
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Electronically signed on 18/02/2022 12:13 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482