EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Competition DG
The Director General
Brussels, 10/06/2021
COMP/H2/MKP/ss
Belen Balanya
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d’Edimbourg 26
1050 Brussels
By e-mail:
ask+request-9434-
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2021/3028
Dear Madam,
We refer to your message dated 6 May 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 6 May 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
In your message, you request access to the following documents:
• all correspondence (including email) between 1st December 2020 and 6th May 2021
between Commissioner Simson, Commissioner Timmermans, Commissioner Breton,
President van der Leyen, Commissioner Vălean, Commissioner Vestager, and/or their
cabinets and/or officials from DG Energy, DG Clima, DG Grow, DG Move, DG
Competition and Secretariat General and representatives of Hydrogen Europe on the
other.
• list of meetings/videocalls/calls between 1st December 2020 and 6th May 2021 between
officials and representatives of the European Commission and representatives of
Hydrogen Europe.
• minutes of the meetings/videocalls/calls mentioned above
We wish to inform you that, insofar it concerns documents from DG Competition (see below), the
Commission does not hold any documents that would correspond to the description given in your
application.
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. This reply relates only to the documents of DG Competition. You wil receive
the replies from the other respective Directorates-General in due course.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation 1049/2001, the right of access as defined in that
regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your application, are
held by the services of DG Competition, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil your request
in this regard.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation 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
Secretary-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles or by email to
: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
e-signed
Olivier GUERSENT