Ref. Ares(2023)1249369 - 21/02/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
The Director-General
Brussels
GROW.B.1
Ms Balanya
Corporate Europe Observatory,
Rue d’Edimbourg 26,
1050 Brussels
Belgium
By email: ask+request-12342-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref. EASE 2023/0081
Dear Ms Balanya,
We refer to your request for access to European Commission documents registered on
04/01/2023 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to
“
1. A list of the meetings/ discussions (including those held face to face, online, by
telephone etc) that have taken place since 1 January 2022 between Commissioner
Breton, his cabinet and/or officials from DG GROW on one hand and representatives
from Dii Desert Energy, the MENA Hydrogen Alliance, Hydrogen Europe, the African
Hydrogen Partnership Trade Association (AHP), the Hydrogen Council, Green
Hydrogen Organisation (GH2), Shell, Total, Equinor, BP, Eni, Port of Rotterdam, FTI
Consulting and/or Royal Vopak, on the other, in which the issue of green hydrogen was
discussed (including Hydrogen Partnerships with third countries).
2. Any records, minutes or notes of these meetings/discussions.
3. Any briefings prepared for these meetings.
4. All correspondence exchanged since 1 January 2022 (including SMS & any other type
of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc,
recorded voice messages, emails, letters and attached documents) between
Commissioner Breton, his cabinet and/or officials from DG GROW on one hand and/or
industry associations Dii Desert Energy, the MENA Hydrogen Alliance, Hydrogen
Europe, the African Hydrogen Partnership Trade Association (AHP), Green Hydrogen
Organisation (GH2), Shell, Total, Equinor, BP, Eni, Port of Rotterdam, Hydrogen
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
Council, FTI Consulting and/or Royal Vopak, (including lobby consultancies and law
firms working for them) on the other.”
We regret to inform you that the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry,
Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by DG GROW, DG GROW is not in a position to fulfil your
request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make
a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed to the Secretariat-General of the
Commission within 15 working days upon receipt of this letter. You can submit it in one of
the following ways:
by asking for a review via your portal1 account (available only for initial requests
submitted via the portal account),
or by mail:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency,
Document
Management
&
Access
to
Documents
(SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Electronically signed
Kerstin Jorna
Director-General
1
https://www.ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request
2
Electronically signed on 20/02/2023 15:01 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
