Ref. Ares(2020)3793444 - 17/07/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate E – Single market and connectivity
The Director
Brussels,
Mr Danny Magill
InfluenceMap,
40 Bermondsey Street
London
Advance copy by email: ask+request-
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Dear Mr Magill,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref. Gestdem 2020/1451
We refer to your e-mail dated 10/03/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 19/03/2020 under the above-mentioned reference number related to
the following meetings:
1. Between representatives of Royal Schiphol Group (Schiphol), Heathrow Airport
Holdings Limited (HAL), Neste Oyj, Shell Companies (Shell), World Economic
Forum (WEF)and cabinet member Diederik Samsom, of Executive Vice-President
Frans Timmermans' Cabinet on the 05/02/2020.
2. Between representatives of Royal Schiphol Group (Schiphol), Heathrow Airport
Holdings Limited (HAL), Shell Companies (Shell), Airports Council International -
European Region (ACI EUROPE) and Diederik Samsom, of Executive Vice-
President Frans Timmermans' cabinet on the 09/12/2019.
The relevant documents we are able to disclose are the following:
E-mail exchange in November 2020 between Schiphol Airport and the Cabinet of
Executive Vice-President Timmermans to organise a meeting in December 2019
(Ares(2020)1375864;
E-mail exchange in December 2020 between Schiphol Airport and the Cabinet of
Executive Vice-President Timmermans to organise a meeting in February 2020
(Ares(2020)1379074).
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http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/secretariat_general/
Please note that some of the documents contain personal data that has been redacted
according to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2018/17251) and to the
internal rules of procedure of the Commission. As your request does not express any particular
interest to have access to these personal data, and does not establish the necessity to have the data
transmitted, I conclude that access cannot be granted to these personal data.
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.
You should send any such confirmatory application within 15 working days of receipt of this
letter to the Secretary-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretary-General
Transparency unit SG-C.1
BERL 7/242
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
John Watson
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