Ref. Ares(2017)1576092 - 23/03/2017
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Health systems, medical products and innovation
Cross border healthcare, eHealth
Brussels,
sante.ddg1.b.3 BL/cd/1719702
By registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt
Dear Mr Hoedeman,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2017/788
I refer to your request dated 9 February 2017 in which you ask for access to documents,
registered under the above mentioned reference number.
Your
application
concerns
the
minutes
and
other
reports
of
meetings
between DG SANTE and representatives of the European Union of Private Hospitals
(UEHP) as well as all other correspondence (including emails) between DG SANTE and
representatives of UEHP, between November 2014 and the date of this letter.
Related to your first request on meetings between DG SANTE and UEHP, during the
identified period, I am pleased to inform you that all meetings which took place can be
found in the table below, and reports or minutes are enclosed to this letter.
No.
Date
Type of the meeting
Minutes/report
1
12 June 2015
UEHP's Council meeting in Annex 1*
Madrid
2
17-18 September 2015 Conference on modernization of Annex 2
healthcare systems in Milan
3
28 October 2016
UEHP's Council meeting in Annex 3
Monaco
4
28 November 2016
Meeting
with
Commissioner Annex 4
Andriukaitis
* Mission report contains different date by mistake, but the event took place on 12 June 2015.
Mr Olivier HOEDEMAN
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Rue d'Edimbourg, 26
BE – 1050 Brussels
Advance copy by email
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
The following table shows a list of meetings to which DG SANTE was invited by
the European Union of Private Hospitals. However, the invitation was refused and,
therefore, the meeting did not take place.
No
Date
Type of the meeting
1
26 February 2016
General Assembly in Rome
2
17 June 2016
UEHP meeting in Sofia
3
9 March 2017
Conference on patients' mobility in Lisbon
Related to your second request concerning all correspondence (including emails)
between the DG SANTE and representatives of UEHP between November 2014 and
today, I am pleased to inform you that, apart from the invitations above, no other
correspondence was exchanged between DG SANTE and UEHP.
You may reuse the documents requested free of charge for non-commercial use provided
that the source is acknowledged and that you do not distort the original meaning or
message of the documents. Please note that the Commission does not assume liability
stemming from the reuse.
Meeting minutes and reports contain personal data. Pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, access to a document has to be refused if its disclosure
would undermine the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual, in
particular in accordance with Community legislation regarding the protection of personal
data. The applicable legislation in this field is Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of
individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions
and bodies and on the free movement of such data1.
When access is requested to documents containing personal data, Regulation (EC)
No 45/2001 becomes fully applicable2. According to Article 8(b) of this Regulation,
personal data shall only be transferred to recipients if they establish the necessity of having
the data transferred to them and if there is no reason to assume that the legitimate rights of
the persons concerned might be prejudiced.
We consider that, with the information available, the necessity of disclosing the
aforementioned personal data to you has not been established and that it cannot be assumed
that such disclosure would not prejudice the legitimate rights of the persons concerned.
Therefore, we are disclosing the documents requested expunged from this personal data.
1 Official Journal L 8 of 12.1.2001, p. 1.
2 Judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU of 29 June 2010 in case C-28/08 P, Commission/The
Bavarian Lager Co. Ltd, ECR 2010 I-06055.
2
In case you would disagree with the assessment that the expunged data are personal data
which can only be disclosed if such disclosure is legitimate under the rules of personal data
protection, you are entitled, in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001, 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
Secretary-General
Transparency unit SG-B-4
BERL 5/282
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx.
Yours sincerely,
[Electronically signed]
Tapani PIHA
Head of Unit
Enclosures :
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Electronically signed on 23/03/2017 16:55 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563