Ref. Ares(2022)6513935 - 21/09/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate E - Citizens, Health, Migration & Security Union
The Director
Brussels
SG.E/WS
Ms C. Goujard
By email: request-11701-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Goujard,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/4575
We refer to your email of 11 August 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents.
You request access to ‘documents which contain the following information: all
communication (including e-mails, documents, meeting minutes) between the President
Von der Leyen and her cabinet with stakeholders regarding child sexual abuse material
(CSAM) online between January 1, 2022 and August 10, 2022’.
The request for access to documents falls under the responsibility of the Secretariat-
General and was registered on 12 August 2022 with the following number:
GESTDEM
2022/4575.
We have identified the following documents that fall under the scope of your application:
Email and accompanying open letter from ‘The International Chat Control v2
Working Group’, Ares(2022)3318848
Answer by DG HOME to the open letter sent by ‘The International Chat Control
v2 Working Group’, Ares(2022)5245392
Email from ‘European digital rights’ and attached open letter from 35
organisations, Ares(2022)1958010
Reply from Commissioner Johansson to the email and letter sent by ‘European
Digital rights’, Ares(2022)4863937
Follow-up email from ‘European digital rights’, Ares(2022)3170396
Reply from the cabinet of President von der Leyen to the follow-up email from
‘European digital rights’, Ares(2022)3609138
Email and open letter from ‘Bits of Freedom’, Ares(2022)3498083
Answer to the open letter from ‘Bits of Freedom’, Ares(2022)5721078
Email and letter from the Chairs of the
EDPB and EDPS with attached Joint
Opinion 04/2022 on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament
and of the Council laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse,
Ares(2022)5462467
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
With
regard
to
documents
Ares(2022)3318848,
Ares(2022)5245392,
Ares(2022)1958010, Ares(2022)4863937, Ares(2022)3170396, Ares(2022)3609138,
Ares(2022)3498083, Ares(2022)5721078 and Ares(2022)5462467, complete disclosure
is prevented by the exception concerning the protection of privacy and the integrity of the
individuals outlined in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, because they
contain the following personal data:
- the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not
pertaining to the senior management;
- the names/initials 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 have established 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 choose to put forward arguments to establish the necessity to have the
data transmitted for a specific purpose in the public interest.
Consequently, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, I conclude
that access is not granted to the personal data contained in the requested documents, as
the need to obtain access to them for a purpose in the public interest has not been
substantiated and there is no reason to think that the legitimate interests of the individuals
concerned would not be prejudiced by disclosure of the personal data concerned.
If you disagree with this position, you are entitled, in accordance with Article 7(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, to submit 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
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels, or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
William SLEATH
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Enclosure:
Documents Ares(2022)3318848, Ares(2022)5245392,
Ares(2022)1958010, Ares(2022)4863937, Ares(2022)3170396,
Ares(2022)3609138, Ares(2022)3498083, Ares(2022)5721078,
Ares(2022)5462467
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Electronically signed on 20/09/2022 16:11 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
