Ref. Ares(2020)2348178 - 04/05/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
By registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt
Jude OMIDIRAN
40 Bermondsey Street
London J4Y 0B5
United Kingdom
Advance copy by email: ask+request-7752-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/1431
Dear Ms Omidiran,
We refer to your e-mail dated 10 March 2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on the 23 March 2020 under the above-mentioned reference
number.
You request access to:
“All documentation, including but not limited to attendance lists, agendas, background
papers, minutes/notes and email correspondence about or summarising, the following
meetings:
1. Meeting with Eurometaux regarding climate neutrality and circular economy on
06/02/20
2. Meeting with Royal DSM regarding European Green Deal on 06/02/20
3. Meeting with EUROFER regarding the steel sector and the Green Deal on 29/01/20”
Your application concerns the following documents:
Author
Date
Reference
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
1 European
7 January 2020
Ares(2020)2023776
Commission/DSM
2 Eurometaux
6 December 2019
Ares(2019)7524474
3 Eurometaux
6 December 2019
Ares(2019)7524474
4 Eurofer
21 October 2019
Ares(2019)6487109
5 Eurofer
21 October 2019
Ares(2019)6487109
6 Eurofer
21 October 2019
Ares(2019)6487109
Please find the identified documents enclosed with this letter. However, I regret to inform
you that I cannot give you access to some parts of documents 1-4 and 6.
A complete disclosure of the above-mentioned 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: names and contact
information of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management; names
and contact details 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
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 documents 1-4 and 6,
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.
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
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Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Luca DE CARLI
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Electronically signed on 30/04/2020 14:15 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563