Ref. Ares(2020)2127293 - 20/04/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
By registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt
Belen BALANYA
Rue d’Edimbourg 26,
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Advance copy by email: ask+request-7776-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/1498
Dear Ms Balanya,
We refer to your e-mail dated 12 March 2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on the 13 March 2020 under the above-mentioned reference
number.
As informed on 13 March 2020, your initial request has been only partially handled by
DG CLIMA. The rest of the request is being handled by the Secretariat-General of the
Commission and registered under Gestdem 2020/1497.
Under Gestdem 2020/1498, you have requested “
the minutes of the following meetings:
1) 15/10/18 Mauro Raffaele Petriccione on the Long-term Strategy and Carbon
Capture and Storage with IOGP
2) 18/01/19 Mauro Raffaele Petriccione to discuss with the Global CCS Institute
global developments in the deployment of CCS
3) 18/03/19 Mauro Raffaele Petriccione on the impact/contribution of hydrogen is
on reaching the decarbonisation targets and creating jobs and growth in Europe
with Hydrogen Europe
4) 24/10/19 Mauro Raffaele Petriccione on the European Green Deal with
BusinessEurope
5) 07/11/19 Mauro Raffaele Petriccione on the European Green Deal with Fortum
Oyj, Statkraft, Vatenfall
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: BU-24 3/087 - Tel. direct line +32 229-61666
xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
6)
21/11/19 Mauro Raffaele Petriccione on CCS, hydrogen with Global CCS
Institute
7) 27/11/19 Mauro Raffaele Petriccione on the European Green Deal with innogy
SE, E.ON”
Your application concerns the following documents:
Author
Date
Reference
1 European Commission
15 February 2019
Ares(2019)931462
2 European Commission
31 March 2020
Ares(2020)1857803
3 European Commission
28 January 2020
Ares(2020)526864
4 European Commission
7 January 2020
Ares(2020)69924
5 European Commission
26 March 2020
Ares(2020)1775635
6 European Commission
7 January 2020
Ares(2020)68328
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 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 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.
Please note that we have not identified any document that would correspond to the point
three of your application.
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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 15/04/2020 09:21 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563
