Ref. Ares(2022)6878531 - 05/10/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Directorate A – Strategy, Analysis and Planning
CLIMA.A.1 – Strategic Coordination, Legal & Institutional
Brussels,
Mr Olivier PETITJEAN
2 impasse Delaunay
F-75011 Paris
France
By email to: ask+request-11757-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2022/4905
Dear Mr Petitjean,
We refer to your e-mail dated 20 August 2022, assigned to Directorate-General Climate
Action on 31 August 2022, in which you make a request for access to documents and
registered under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to:
[a]ll documentation (including but not limited to all email
correspondence, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings
and minutes/notes) relating to the meetings listed below:
1. Between Frans Timmermans and ExxonMobil on 27 June 2022.
2. Between Anthony Agotha (Cabinet member) and Teneo on 22 June 2022.
3. Between Mauro Raffaele Petriccione (Director-General) and Dow Europe on
8 February 2022.
4. Between Mauro Raffaele Petriccione (Director-General) and Cefic on
29 September 2021.
5. Between Helena Braun (Cabinet member) and Ineos, PlasticsEurope and others
on 13 October 2021.
6. Between Mauro Raffaele Petriccione (Director-General) and ExxonMobil on
15 April 2021.
7. Between Sarah Nelen (Cabinet member), Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet member),
Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member) and BASF on 7 December 2020.
8. Between Sarah Nelen (Cabinet member), Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet member)
and BASF on 12 October 2020.
9. Between Frans Timmermans and PlasticsEurope on 24 June 2020.
10. Between Frans Timmermans and Cefic on 11 June 2020.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
11. Between Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member) and FuelsEurope on 5 May
2020.
Your application concerns the following documents:
Reference
Author
Date
1
Ares(2020)2392246
Fuels Europe
6 May 2020
2
Ares(2020)2498928
Plastics Europe
11 May 2020
3
Ares(2020)2498928
Plastics Europe
11 May 2020
4
Ares(2020)2690661
CEFIC/European Commission
19 May 2020
5
Ares(2020)2765685
CEFIC/European Commission
6 July 2021
6
Plastics Europe/European
Ares(2020)3156122
Commission
17 June 2020
7
Plastics Europe/European
Ares(2020)3338346
Commission
1 October 2020
8
Ares(2020)5099866
CEFIC
29 September 2020
9
Ares(2020)5099866
CEFIC
29 September 2020
10
Ares(2020)5600445
BASF
30 September 2020
11
Ares(2020)5600499
BASF/European Commission
1 October 2020
12
Ares(2020)7445335
BASF
19 October 2020
13
Ares(2020)7445375
BASF/European Commission
18 November 2020
14
Ares(2021)1151412
European Commission
10 February 2021
15
Ares(2021)2641892
European Commission
20 April 2021
16
Plastics Europe/European
Ares(2021)4823468
Commission
28 July 2021
17
Plastics Europe/European
Ares(2021)6783373
Commission
3 November 2021
18
Ares(2021)7550884
European Commission
7 December 2021
19
Ares(2022)1568200
European Commission
3 March 2022
20
TENEO/European
Ares(2022)3867217
Commission
23 May 2022
21
Ares(2022)4082934
ExxonMobil
31 May 2022
22
Ares(2022)4082934
ExxonMobil
31 May 2022
23
TENEO/European
Ares(2022)6132210
Commission
23 May 2022
Please find the documents enclosed with this letter. However, I regret to inform you that I
cannot give you access to some parts of the documents.
A complete disclosure of the 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 the documents contain: names and contact
information of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management; names
and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior
management; and names of other natural persons and other information relating to an
identified or identifiable natural person.
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
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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.
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001, access cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the requested
documents, as the need to obtain access thereto 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.
As regards documents 14, 15, 18 and 19, these were drawn up for internal use under the
responsibility of the relevant officials of DG CLIMA. They solely reflect the author's
interpretation of the interventions made and do not set out any official position of the
third parties to which the documents refer, which were not consulted on the content.
They do not reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
In case you would 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 to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Luca DE CARLI
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Electronically signed on 30/09/2022 14:41 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121