Ref. Ares(2021)5606574 - 13/09/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
SG.C.1
By registered letter with AR
Mr Kenneth Haar
Overgaden oven Vandet 12
1415 Copenhagen K
Denmark
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Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2021/2711
Dear Mr Haar,
I refer to your e-mail of 18 August 2021, registered on 19 August 2021, in which you
submit
a
confirmatory
application
in
accordance
with
Article 7(2)
of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council
and Commission documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory request was submitted in relation to your initial application of
26 April 2021, registered on 27 April 2021 in which you requested, I quote:
- ‘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. These include meetings via
webservices and phone calls.
- 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’.
1 OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
The initial request was assigned to the European Commission’s Secretariat-General,
Directorate E - Citizens, Health, Migration & Security Union. As you did not receive an
initial reply from that Directorate within the statutory time limits, you submitted a
confirmatory application on 18 August 2021.
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on 3 September 2021.
In its reply, Directorate E in the Secretariat-General identified 36 documents as falling
within the scope of your application and partially disclosed these documents subject only
to the redaction of personal data based on the exception laid down in Article 4(1)(b)
(protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001.
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory application
related to the lack of initial reply.
Yours sincerely,
María Oliván Avilés
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 10/09/2021 14:13 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482