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Ref. Ares(2017)3824268 - 31/07/2017
EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs 
 
Single Market Policy, Regulation and  Implementation 
 
Director  
Brussels, 27.07.2017 
GROW/B2/AH/bml (2017) 4175717 
Mr Clemens Prill 
xxxxxxxxxxxx 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Germany 
 Email: 
 
 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx  
Subject: 
Your application for access to documents – Notification 2017/127/D 
Ref. GestDem No 2017/3523 
Dear Mr Prill, 
We refer to your e-mail dated 10 June 2017 in which you made a request for access to 
documents, registered on 12 June 2017 under the above-mentioned reference number, and to 
our holding reply dated 30 June 2017. 
Your application concerns "information on checking and approving notification 
[2017/127/D] of upcoming German law 'Gesetz zur Verbesserung der Rechtsdurchsetzung in 
sozialen Netzwerken (NetzDG)' […] to be able to understand what stands for or against this 
law and why the EU approves it. So please be so kind and forward papers, discussion 
materials, statements, documents and files regarding this. Keep in mind that I'm not 
interested in press releases only but in internal documents, information, etc.
". 
I consider your request to cover documents held up to the date of your initial application.  
The Commission did not react to the notification 2017/127/D, as is visible at the public TRIS 
website  
 
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-
databases/tris/en/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2017&num=127

The documents identified as relevant for your request are listed in the attached table. 
Following the assessment of these documents, please note that 12 documents that fall under 
the scope of your request are publicly available. These are: 
−  the German notification 2017/127/D listed at No 1 of the table, which is accessible 
under the section "Message" via 
  
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-
databases/tris/en/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2017&num=127; and 
Commission européenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11. 
Office: N105 04/25. Telephone: direct line (32-2) 2956991. Fax: (32-2) 2998043. 
E-mail: xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx 

−  the stakeholders' contributions listed at Nos 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18 of 
the table, which are accessible under the section "Contributions" via 
 
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-
databases/tris/en/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2017&num=127
.  
Having examined the documents Nos 2, 5, 6, 9, 15 and 16 pursuant to Regulation (EC) 
1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public 
access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents1, I am pleased to inform you 
that those documents are disclosed. 
You may reuse the documents requested free of charge for non-commercial and commercial 
purposes provided that the source is acknowledged, that you do not distort the original meaning 
or message of the documents. Please note that the Commission does not assume liability 
stemming from the reuse.   
Please note that documents received from third parties are disclosed for information only and 
cannot be re-used without the agreement of the originator, who holds a copyright on them. They 
do not reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such. 
Some documents to which you have requested access contain personal data. Personal data of 
non-senior management Commission staff appearing therein has been redacted from the 
documents disclosed to you, as well as personal data of the third parties with whom the 
Commission was in correspondence. Pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) 1049/2001, 
access to a document has to be refused if its disclosure would undermine the protection of privacy 
and the integrity of the individual, in particular in accordance with European Union legislation 
regarding the protection of personal data.  
The applicable legislation in this field is Regulation (EC) 45/20012 on the protection of 
individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions and bodies 
and on the free movement of such data. When access is requested to documents containing 
personal data, Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 becomes fully applicable3. According to Article 8(b) 
of this Regulation, personal data shall only be transferred to recipients if they establish the 
necessity of having the data transferred to them and if there is no reason to assume that the 
legitimate rights of the persons concerned might be prejudiced. 
We consider that, with the information available, the necessity of disclosing the aforementioned 
personal data to you has not been established and/or that it cannot be assumed that such 
disclosure would not prejudice the legitimate rights of the persons concerned. 
In case you would disagree with the assessment that the expunged data are personal data which 
can only be disclosed if such disclosure is legitimate under the rules of personal data protection, 
you are entitled, in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) 1049/2001, to make a 
confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position. Such confirmatory 
                                                 
1 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, OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43. 
2 Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the 
protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and 
bodies and on the free movement of such data, OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1. 
3 Judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU in case C-28/08 P, Commission/The Bavarian Lager Co. Ltd



request has to be submitted to the Secretary-General of the Commission within fifteen working 
days of receiving this letter. 
All correspondence should be sent either electronically to xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx or by regular 
mail to the following address: 
European Commission  
Secretary-General 
Transparency unit SG-B-4 
BERL 5/327 
B-1049 Brussels 
 
Yours sincerely, 
Joaquim NUNES DE ALMEIDA 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Enclosures:  - 1 table 
 
- 6 documents