Ref. Ares(2020)4327402 - 19/08/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Directorate B - Common Implementation Centre
B.1 - Common Legal Support Service
Head of Unit
B1/RS/ST/MS
rtd.b.1.002(2020)4960322
By registered letter with
acknowledgment of receipt
Ms Venetia Roxburgh
40 Bermondsey Street,
London, UK
Advance copy by e-mail: ask+request-8409-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Your application for public access to documents – GestDem Ref No
2020/4655
Dear Ms Roxburgh,
We refer to your email dated 31/07/2020 in which you submitted an application for
access to documents, within the framework of Regulation (EC) 1049/20011.
1. SCOPE OF YOUR REQUEST
You requested access to the following:
‘ All documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence, attendance
lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and minutes/notes) relating to
the meetings listed below:
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Between Jean-Eric Paquet and Safran on 5th June 2020’.
We have identified one document falling under the scope of your request (hereinafter the
'requested document), namely:
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‘Briefing meeting JEP aviation stakeholders 05.06.2020’.
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),
hereinafter referred to as ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
2. EXAMINATION UNDER REGULATION (EC) NO 1049/2001
We are pleased to inform you that partial access can be granted to the requested
document. Please note that personal data have been expunged, in accordance with the
exception provided under Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, such as the
names and contact details of the Commission’s officials not having the function of senior
management staff, as explained below:
Protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual
According to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, access must be refused
where 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 data2.
Pursuant to Article 9(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, personal data shall only be
transmitted to recipients established in the Union other than Union institutions and bodies
if
“[t]he recipient establishes that it is necessary to have the data transmitted for a
specific purpose in the public interest and the controller, where there is any reason to
assume that the data subject’s legitimate interests might be prejudiced, establishes that it
is proportionate to transmit the personal data for that specific purpose after having
demonstrably weighed the various competing interests”.
The European Commission has to examine the further conditions for a lawful processing
of personal data only if the first condition is fulfilled, namely if the recipient has
established that it is necessary to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in the
public interest. In your request, you do not put forward any arguments to establish the
necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in the public interest.
Therefore, personal data has been withheld from the requested document.
Please note that the exception of Article 4(1)(b) has an absolute character and does not
envisage the possibility of demonstrating the existence of an overriding public interest.
3. DISCLAIMER AND RE-USE OF THE DOCUMENT
You may reuse the document 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 document. Please note that the Commission does not assume
liability stemming from the reuse.
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 (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).
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4. MEANS OF REDRESS
Should you wish this position to be reconsidered, in accordance with Article 7(2) of
Regulation (EC) 1049/2001, you are entitled to present in writing, within fifteen working
days from receipt of this letter, a confirmatory application to the Commission's
Secretary-General at the following address:
European Commission
Secretary-General
Unit SG C.1 – Transparency, document management & access to documents
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Reinhard Schulte
Enclosure: the requested document, expunged from personal data.
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Electronically signed on 19/08/2020 10:30 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563