EUROPEAN COMMISSION
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
The Director-General
Brussels
JRC/SQ/ARES(2021)
Sent via e-mail only to1
Ms Alice Kettlewell
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Dear Ms Kettlewell,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref. GestDem No 2021/6899
We refer to your application dated 29 October 2021 registered on 3 November 2021 under
the above-mentioned reference number.
Your request concerns
“- list of meetings/videocalls/calls between 1st December 2020 and
6th May 2021 between officials and/or representatives of the European Commission and
stakeholders where the issue of EU taxonomy for sustainable activities was addressed,
especially regarding the implementation of gas and nuclear in this regulation.
2 - minutes of the meetings/videocalls/calls mentioned above.
3 – list of meetings/videocalls/calls between 1st April 2021 and 6th May 2021 between
officials and/or representatives of the European Commission and stakeholders where the
issue of the implementation of gas and nuclear in the Taxonomy Regulation was addressed,
especially information related to the discussion on the JRC report (Ref.Ares(2021)1988129
– 19/03/2021), assessing DNSH aspect of nuclear energy consistent with specification
Articles 17 and 19 of the Taxonomy Regulation. “.
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-General2. This reply relates only to the documents held by the Joint
Research Centre. You will receive the replies from the other respective Directorates-General
in due course.
1 According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also sent to you by registered post.
Please note, however, that due to the extraordinary health and security measures currently in force
during to the COVID-19 epidemics, which includes the requirement for all Commission non-critical
staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to follow this procedure until further notice. We
would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present e-mail.
2 DG FISMA GestDem 2021/6536; CLIMA 2021/6902; SG GestDem 2021/6932; DG ENER GestDem
2021/6938; DG ENV GestDem 2021/6946.
Commission européenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11
Office: CDMA 06/162 – Tel. direct line +32 229 65897
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We regret to inform you that the JRC does not hold any document 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 JRC, the JRC is not in a position to fulfil your request.
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 and Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
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Qualified electronic signature by:
STEPHEN PAUL JAMES QUEST
Date: 2021-12-15 13:16:27 +01:00
E-signed
Stephen QUEST
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