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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Directorate I. Legal, institutional and procedural matters
I.3. Enforcement of legislation, Relations with the European Ombudsman and Access to documents
Head of Unit
Brussels,
I.3/KVK/VA D (2020)
3420441
Mr. Dieter Bael
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Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/2336
Dear Sir,
We refer to your e-mail of 17/04/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 20/04/2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
“Documents which contain the following information: I’m looking
for the actors and their opinions that participated in the conference on the public debate
"The CAP post 2013", that took place on 19-20 July 2010. This conference was held
around the upcoming CAP reform beyond 2013.”
We identified 34 documents, of which 31 are attached in this letter. The documents No 22,
27 and 28 originate from National authorities and third parties, which have been consulted;
as soon we receive their reply we will inform you.
With regard to the attached documents, a complete disclosure of them 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/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not
pertaining to the senior management;
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the names/initials and contact details of other natural persons;
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handwritten signatures/abbreviated 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.
You may reuse the Commission documents free of charge and for non-commercial and
commercial purposes 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.
The documents originating from third parties are disclosed to you based on Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is without prejudice to the rules on
intellectual property, which may limit your right to reproduce or exploit the released
documents without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual
property right on them. The European Commission does not assume any responsibility
from their reuse.
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 faithfully,
Karl von Kempis
e-signed
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Electronically signed on 10/06/2020 15:42 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563