Ref. Ares(2021)7131397 - 19/11/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy: Strategy and Coordination
A.5 - Planning and Legal Affairs
Brussels 19 November 2021
ENER.A.5/ACB/(2021)8013288
By registered email with acknowledgment of
receipt
PACE Barnaby
Global Witness
Rue Belliard 53
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
Advance copy by email:
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2021/6388
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your e-mail dated 27/10/2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes
(hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational
conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on 21
October 2021 between Tatiana Marquez Uriarte and Stefano Grassi and Shell Company.
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Ares(2021)3869896
14/06/2021
VTC MEETING REQUEST SG/LC open date with Shell
on FF55 - RED reform and Sectoral Roadmaps to NZE
Ares(2021)3982965
18/06/2021
[Re] VTC MEETING REQUEST SG/LC open date with
Shell on FF55
Ares(2021)6516690
21/10/2021
Meeting Stefano Grassi with Shell representatives
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 07/143 - Tel. direct line +32 229-67304
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
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:
- the name of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management;
-
the names and contact details of other natural persons.
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 any arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a
specific purpose in the public interest.
Please note that documents originating from third parties are disclosed to you based on
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is without prejudice to the rules
on intellectual property, which may limit your right to reproduce or exploit the released
documents without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual
property right on them. The European Commission does not assume any responsibility
from their reuse.
Access is granted to minutes of a meeting with external parties. This document was
drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant service. It solely reflects
the service’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.
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 Bruxelles
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 19/11/2021 15:56 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
