Ref. Ares(2021)3758010 - 08/06/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy: Strategy and Coordination
A.5 - Planning and Legal Affairs
Brussels 08 June 2021
ENER.A.5/ACB(2021)4091280
By registered email with acknowledgment of
receipt
DADCI Lala Hakuma
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d'Edimbourg 26
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Advance copy by email:
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2021/2119
Dear Ms DADCI,
We refer to your e-mail dated 07/04/2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
The minutes of the following meetings:
01 Oct 2020 – Meeting between Kadri Simson Stefano Grassi Kitti Nyitrai and Eurogas -
Energy System Integration, Hydrogen and low-carbon gases and methane emissions (DG
Energy)
26 May 2020 - Meeting between Commissioner Kadri Simson Kitti Nyitrai Stefano
Grassi and Hydrogen Europe- Development of European hydrogen markets, the future
transport needs and options of hydrogen related infrastructural aspects.
06 Apr 2020 - Meeting between Commissioner Kadri Simson Kitti Nyitrai and Hydrogen
Europe- Green hydrogen for decarbonising the economy and the energy system, impact
of the current crisis on the hydrogen industry and their role in a Green Recovery
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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12 Jun 2020 - Meeting between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Business Europe-
BusinessEurope's support to GD. COVID19 impact on businesses, investments.
BusinessEurope's inputs to energy system integration strategy, 2030 climate target plan,
renovation wave. Poss. future cooperation on NECPs and upcoming EC's initiatives.
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Ares(2020)2426039
04/06/2020
Minutes Conference call EVP Timmermans &
Kadri Simson - Hydrogen Europe
Ares(2020)3776311
26/05/2020
Kadri Simson Roundtable H2 transport
Ares(2020)1696480
01/10/2020
VTC report Roundtable with Eurogas
We are glad to inform you that you can have wide partial access to all documents, subject
only to the redaction of personal data.
Complete disclosure of these 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 it contains the following personal data:
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the service’s interpretation of the interventions made and does not set out any official
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content. It does not reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
Concerning the meeting of 12 June 2020 between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Business
Europe please note that this meeting was held as a phone conversation and there are no
minutes.
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make a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
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European Commission
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BERL 7/076
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or by email to:
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Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Anne-Charlotte BOURNOVILLE
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 08/06/2021 15:20 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482