Ref. Ares(2022)4476562 - 17/06/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
SG.D.1 - Digital Transition, Industry & Single Market
Brussels
SG.D.1/
Mrs Nienke Palstra
Global Witness,
Rue Belliard 53,
1000, Bruxelles,
Belgique
By email:
ask+request-11313-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Mrs Palstra,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/3012
We refer to your request for access to documents registered on 25 May 2022, registered
under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to “
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence,
emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim
reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to
the meeting on 2022-04-12 between Anthony Whelan and Amazon Europe Core SARL.”
We have identified the following document related to your request.
1. ARES (2022)4049219 – Meeting with Amazon 12 April 2022
With regard to the document identified, a complete disclosure 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:
- the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not
pertaining to the senior management;
- the names/initials and contact details of other institutions or natural persons.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2018/1725) 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 neither express any particular interest to have access to these
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personal data, nor 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
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.
The document was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant
services of the European Commission. It solely reflects the author's interpretation of the
interventions made and does not set out any official position of the third parties to which
the document refers, which were not consulted on its content. It does not reflect the
position of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
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 t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Electronically signed
Olivier GIRARD
Head of Unit
Enclosure:
disclosed document
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Electronically signed on 17/06/2022 11:19 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
