Ref. Ares(2020)6521176 - 09/11/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate E - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.E.1
Mrs Venetia Roxburgh
40 Bermondsey Street
London
United Kingdom
Advanced copy by email :
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/6178
Dear Madam,
We refer to your e-mail of 15 October 2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 16 October 2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to the following documents:
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All documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence,
attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and
minutes/notes) relating to the meeting listed between Damyana Stoynova and
Sarah Nelen, members of Timmermans' cabinet, and BASF on the 12th
October 2020
We have identified the following documents which correspond to your request:
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ARES(2020)5600445 – email BASF to CAB Timmermans to organise a call
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ARES(220)5600499 – email CAB Timmermans to BASF to confirm the
organisation of the call
The documents contain personal data which has been redacted.
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
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any arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose
in the public interest.
This document was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant
officials. It solely reflects the author'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. 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.
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 Secretariat-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
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
John WATSON
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Electronically signed on 09/11/2020 15:22 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
