Ref. Ares(2021)5446076 - 03/09/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate E - Citizens, Health, Migration & Security Union
The Director
Brussels
SG.E.4/CD
Kenneth Haar
Overgaden oven Vandet 12
1415 Copenhagen K
Denmark
By email: ask+request-9388-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Mr. Haar,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/2711
We refer to your e-mail of 26 April 2021, registered on the same day under the above
mentioned reference number in which you request access to:
- “a list of meetings between the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen
and her Cabinet and representatives of Global Citizen and/or the Pandemic Action
Network since 1 March 2020, and the minutes of the meetings.”
- “all communication, including emails, between the President of the Commission
Ursula von der Leyen and her Cabinet and representatives of Global Citizen and/or the
Pandemic Action Network since 1 March 2020.”
We enclose a copy of the documents requested: personal data has been redacted (see
below).
These documents were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant
members of the Cabinet of the President of the European Commission. They reflect
solely the author's interpretation of the interventions made and does not set out any
official position of the third parties to which the document refers, which was not
consulted on its content. The content does not reflect the position of the Commission and
cannot be quoted as such.
The documents contain personal data which has been redacted. 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
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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.
In accordance with Article7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to
make 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 7/076B-1049
Brussels,
or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx.
Yours sincerely,
William Sleath
Director
Enclosures: 36 documents
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Electronically signed on 03/09/2021 17:45 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482