Ref. Ares(2022)6370850 - 15/09/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D.1/TKV
Nienke Palstra
Global Witness
Rue Belliard 53
1000 Brussels
Belgium
By email:
ask+request-11725-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your applications for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/4587
Dear Ms Palstra,
We refer to your email of 11 August 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council
and Commission documents (hereinafter ‘Regulation 1049/2001’), registered on 12
August 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number. We further refer to our email
of 5 September 2022 informing you about the extension of the deadline, our reference
Ares(2022)6134996.
By your application, 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 2022-06-02 between Penelope Papandropoulos and Werner Stengg
and Computer & Communications Industry Association.
We have identified the following documents responsive to your request:
1. Ares(2022)3655388 – Re_ CCIA Europe meeting request
2. Ares(2022)4293899_Meeting with CCIA Europe_Report_Redacted
With regard to the documents 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:
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
- 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
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
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.
Furthermore, document 2 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 documents refer, 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,
Elisa Roller
Director
Enclosure:
disclosed documents
2
Electronically signed on 14/09/2022 18:23 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
