Ref. Ares(2020)1781518 - 26/03/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy
A.1 - Energy Policy coordination
Brussels
ENER.A.1/PP/AV(2020)1954964
By registered letter with acknowledgment
of receipt
Myriam Douo,
Friends of the Earth Europe
Rue d’Edimbourg 26
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Advance copy by email :
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Douo,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/0108
We refer to your e-mail dated 07/01/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 07/01/2020 under the above mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
1- all correspondence (including email) between 1st January 2019 and 19 December
2019 between the former/current Commissioner for Energy and/or his/her cabinet and/or
officials and representatives of DG Energy on one hand and representatives from Total,
BP and CEFIC on the other, in which the European Green Deal was addressed.
2 - list of meetings between 1st January 2019 and 19 December 2019 between officials
and representatives of DG Energy on one hand and representatives from Total, BP and
CEFIC on the other, in which the European Green Deal reform was addressed.
3 - minutes of the meetings mentioned above
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/153 - Tel. direct line +32 229-20815
xxxxx.xxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Author
Ares(2019)7795754
12/12/2019
French Union of Electricity_ French Union of
Request for a meeting
Electricity
Ares(2019)7924139
10/12/2019
Letter of congratulations
Cefic
With regard to the two documents listed 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:
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the names of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management;
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the names and contact details of other natural persons;
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handwritten signatures of natural persons.
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 no specific document was found for point 2 and 3.
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 to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
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Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Paula PINHO
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 26/03/2020 09:01 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563