Ref. Ares(2022)5660210 - 09/08/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR MIGRATION AND HOME AFFAIRS
The Director-General
Brussels
HOME.C.1.003/AS
Anas AMBRI
Belgium
E-mail:
ask+request-11270-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/2939
Dear Ms Ambri,
We refer to your e-mail, dated 20 May 2022, in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 23 May 2022, under the above mentioned reference number.
You request access to copies of correspondence between DG Home staff and authorities
of 40 countries in which the European Return & Reintegration Network (ERRIN)
contracted reintegration services providers, in as a far as it relates to ERRIN’s work in
those countries.
The following documents fall within the scope of your application:
Internal Minutes ERRIN Strategic Management Board of 25 November
2021, reference
Ares(2022)5380070 – 26/07/2022 (hereafter ‘document 1’)
Draft Minutes of the ERRIN Strategic Management Board Meeting of 25
November 2021, reference Ares(2022)5384572 – 19/07/2022 (hereafter
‘document 2’)
Final Minutes of the ERRIN Strategic Management Board Meeting of 25
November 2021, reference Ares(2022)5406011 – 27/07/2002 (hereafter
‘document 3’)
Having examined the documents requested under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, I have come to the conclusion that they
may be partially disclosed.
Documents 2 and 3 contain the names relating to identifiable natural persons. A complete
disclosure of documents 2 and 3 is prevented by the exception concerning the protection of
privacy and the integrity of the individual outlined in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation
1049/2001.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation1 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 application, you do
not express any particular interest to have access to these personal data nor do you put
forward arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific
purpose in the public interest.
Document 1 was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant
services of the Directorate-General for Migration and Home affairs. It solely reflects the
services’ 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.
Please note that documents 2 and 3 originate from third parties and are disclosed to you
based on Regulation 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
document without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual property
right on it. The European Commission does not assume any responsibility from their reuse.
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
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,
Monique PARIAT
Annexes: 3
1 Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the
protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions,
bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No
45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC, OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39.
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