Ref. Ares(2021)7027467 - 16/11/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate-General for Trade
Directorate R - Resources, Inter-Institutional Relations, Communications and Civil Society
R.3 Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
The Head of Unit
Brussels
TRADE/R/3/MM/SL/7260350
Ms Audrey Changoe
Friends of the Earth Europe
26 rue d'Edimbourg
1050 Brussels
by email only:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Your application for access to documents – GestDem 2021/4729
Dear Mrs Changoe,
I refer to your e-mail dated 26/07/2021 in which you made a request for access to
documents in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/20011 (“Regulation
1049/2001”), registered on 27/07/21 under the above mentioned reference number.
In your communication of 26 July 2021 you asked for:
A list of meetings between Civil Society Organisations and the trade officials listed below
on the EU Mercosur Trade Deal:
Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, - from June 2019 to present.
Cabinet members of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis: from June 2019
to present.
Director-General Sabine Weyand - from June 2019 to present.
Former Commissioner Phil Hogan - from January 2019 until September 2020.
as well as a number of officials from DG TRADE (covering the period from January
2020 until September 2020 or respectively to the present date).
In addition to the information already provided to you in our letter of 21 September 2021
(Ares 20211/5771360) I hereby inform you that we have identified two additional
meetings held by Cabinet members of Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis with the
following organisations:
1 Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2001
regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, OJ L 145,
31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
- 1 October 2020 – Meeting with Human Rights Watch
- 3 February 2021 – Meeting with Fridays For Future SOS Amazonia International.
I hope you will find this additional information useful.
Yours sincerely,
Michelangelo Margherita
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Electronically signed on 22/10/2021 14:15 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482