Ref. Ares(2020)1833834 - 30/03/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy
A.1 - Energy Policy coordination
Brussels
ENER.A.1/PP/AV(2020)19546932011529
By registered letter with acknowledgment
of receipt
KIENINGER Frida
Food and Water Europe
Rue d’Edimbourg 26
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Advance copy by email :
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Dear Ms Kieninger,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2019/7352
We refer to your e-mail dated 19/12/2019 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 20/12/2019 under the above mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
1- all correspondence (including email) between 1st January 2019 and 19 December
2019 between the former/current Commissioner for Energy and/or his/her cabinet and/or
officials and representatives of DG Energy on one hand and representatives from
International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), EUROGAS and FuelsEurope
on the other, in which the European Green Deal was addressed.
2 - list of meetings between 1st January 2019 and 19 December 2019 between officials
and representatives of DG Energy on one hand and representatives from International
Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), EUROGAS and FuelsEurope on the other,
in which the European Green Deal reform was addressed.
3 - minutes of the meetings mentioned above
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/153 - Tel. direct line +32 229-20815
xxxxx.xxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Author
Ares(2019)7916960
13/12/2019 Letter to Commissioner Simson
IOGP
Ares(2019)7817358
21/11/2019 Meeting request with
IOGP
Commissioner Simson
Ares(2019)7678260
03/12/2019 Invitation to give Keynote
Eurogas
Speech: Eurogas Annual
Conference 2020
Ares(2019)7765492
17/12/2019 Positive reply to Eurogas’
Cabinet of
invitation to give Keynote
Commissioner Simson
Speech
Ares(2019)7646360
02/12/2019 Open letter by 16 companies on
FuelsEurope and 15
sector coupling and integration
other companies
by power-to-X: A key to a
climate-neutral Europe by 2050
Ares(2019)7680043
29/11/2019 Letter to Commissioner Simson
FuelsEurope
Ares(2019)7752249
17/12/2019 Meeting request with
FuelsEurope
Commissioner Simson
Ares(2020)1728751
17/12/2019 Minutes of meeting with IOGP
DG Energy
I am glad to inform you that we can grant wide partial access to the documents listed above,
subject only to the redaction of personal data.
A complete disclosure of the identified 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 they contain the following personal data:
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the names of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management;
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the names and contact details of other natural persons;
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handwritten signatures of natural persons.
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
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
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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.
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)
Paula PINHO
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 30/03/2020 18:56 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563