Ref. Ares(2021)6912256 - 10/11/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
The Director-General
Brussels
GROW.B.1/AS
Ms Carlotta Indiano
Viale Giulio Cesare, 92 - 00192
Rome - Italy
email:
ask+request-10118-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/
Dear Ms Indiano,
We refer to your e-mail of 18 October 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
a list of the meeting and/or calls, all minutes and other reports of
these meetings and/or calls, all correspondence between the Vulcan Energie Ressourcen
and the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, during which “batteries” and/or
“hydrogen” and/or “lithium” were discussed.
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request parts of your request have been
attributed to other Directorates-Generals. This reply relates only to the documents held by
Directorate-General for internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG
GROW).
You will receive the replies from the other respective Directorates-General in due course.
We regret to inform you that DG GROW does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application.
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.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil
your request.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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,
Kerstin Jorna
(electronically signed)
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Electronically signed on 10/11/2021 14:24 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482