Esta es la versión HTML de un fichero adjunto a una solicitud de acceso a la información 'Work with Palantir'.





Ref. Ares(2020)3194755 - 19/06/2020
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS 
The Acting Director General 
Brussels  
JUST.01.002
Ares(2020) S2338273 
By registered letter with acknowledgment of 
receipt 

Advance copy by email: 
Subject: Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/2272 and 
GESTDEM 2020/2264 

Dear
We refer to your e-mail dated 14/04/2020 in which you make a request for access to 
documents, registered on 16/04/2020 under the above mentioned reference number. 
You request access to all documents related to (a) contact between the Commission and 
Palantir and (b) documents in which the word Palantir is mentioned

You specified further, in your e-mail from 16/04/2020, that your request concerns 
documents created or received as of April 2018. 
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, covering also areas falling under the 
responsibility of other Directorates-General, parts of your request have been attributed to 
other Directorates-General.1 You will receive the replies from the other respective 
Directorates-General in due course. 
1  Your request initially submitted to the Secretariat-General has been re-attributed to the following
Directorates-Generals and Commission Services with the following reference numbers:
OUT OF SCOPE
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111 
Office: MO59 07/027 - Tel. direct line +32 229-84886 


OUT OF SCOPE

 
any way. Please note that all the passages concerning contacts with Palantir, mentioning the 
company or the software are fully disclosed.  
To be noted that document files 3-6 contain a number of documents which are the same. 
For the sake of completeness we kept them in the list. Please note that all documents 
covered by these 4 document files are integral parts of the respective document file in the 
Commission’s internal document registration system and on that basis are provided for 
information. These documents are of administrative nature and required for the approval of 
the participation of Commission officials in the Conference organized by ERA. They are 
entirely out of scope of the request and have therefore been redacted, with the exception of 
the Agenda of the Conference. 
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA 
With regard to document 1, 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: 
x  the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not 
pertaining to the senior management; 
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation2 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 
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. 
Please note that document 2 is a study carried out by external experts which was made 
public. It does not reflect the position of the Commission. You may reuse public 
documents, which have been produced by the European Commission or by public and 
private entities on its behalf based on the Commission Decision on the reuse of Commission 
documents. You may reuse the documents disclosed free of charge and for non-commercial 
and commercial purposes provided that the source is acknowledged and 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. 
As for document 1 please note that this document was drawn up for internal use under 
the responsibility of the Cabinet of Vice-President Jourová, formerly in charge of Justice 
and Consumers in her position as Commissioner for Justice and Consumers. It solely 
                                                 
2 Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the 
protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, 
bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 
45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC. 



 
reflects the Cabinet’s  interpretation of the interventions made and does not set out any 
official position of the third parties to which the document refers, which was not 
consulted on its content. It does not reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be 
quoted as such. 
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 within 15 working days upon receipt 
of this letter to the Secretary-General of the Commission at the following address: 
European Commission 
Secretariat-General 
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)  
BERL 7/076 
B-1049 Brussels 
or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx 
According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also sent to you by 
registered post. Please note, however, that due to the extraordinary health and security 
measures currently in force during to the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the 
requirement for all Commission non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a 
position to follow this procedure until further notice.  
We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present e-mail by 
replying to (Functional Mailbox e-mail address). 

Your sincerely, 
 
 
 
 
Salla SAASTAMOINEN 
 
Enclosures: The six documents listed in this letter consisting of a number of documents, 
fully or redacted respectively in line with the explanations provided above. 

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