Green hydrogen dec 22- clima
To DG Clima,
From: Belen Balanya, Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels.
19 December 2022 RE: Access to Documents related to Green Hydrogen
Dear sirs,
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Regulation', I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
1. A list of the meetings/ discussions (including those held face to face, online, by telephone etc) that have taken place since 1 January 2022 between Commissioner Timmermans, his cabinet and/or officials from DG Clima on one hand and representatives from Dii Desert Energy, the MENA Hydrogen Alliance, Hydrogen Europe, the African Hydrogen Partnership Trade Association (AHP), the Hydrogen Council, Green Hydrogen Organisation (GH2), Shell, Total, Equinor, BP, Eni, Port of Rotterdam, FTI Consulting and/or Royal Vopak, on the other, in which the issue of green hydrogen was discussed (including Hydrogen Partnerships with third countries).
2. Any records, minutes or notes of these meetings/discussions.
3. Any briefings prepared for these meetings.
4. All correspondence exchanged since 1 January 2022 (including SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc, recorded voice messages, emails, letters and attached documents) between Commissioner Timmermans, his cabinet and/or DG Clima director general and representatives of companies and/or industry associations Dii Desert Energy, the MENA Hydrogen Alliance, Hydrogen Europe, the African Hydrogen Partnership Trade Association (AHP), Green Hydrogen Organisation (GH2), Shell, Total, Equinor, BP, Eni, Port of Rotterdam, Hydrogen Council, FTI Consulting and/or Royal Vopak, (including lobby consultancies and law firms working for them).
In the interests of good administration, Corporate Observatory Europe requests that the response clearly identifies the documents held by the Commission in relation to each of these categories and clearly indicates to which category the disclosed documents relate.
To the extent possible, our preference is to receive documents in electronic format. Documents that cannot be sent in electronic format should be sent to Corporate Europe Observatory, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels – to the attention of Belén Balanyá. Should you transmit documents to us by regular post, we kindly ask you to announce us in advance in this regard.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis.
At no point should the Commission’s search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I expect the partial release of documents, in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6.
I reserve the right to appeal.
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.
Thank you for your assistance.
Belen Balanya
Corporate Europe Observatory
Yours faithfully,
Belen Balanya
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 19/12/2022 and registered on 03/01/2023 under the case number
2023/0063.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 24/01/2023. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Climate Action - Access to Documents
European Commission
References
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Dear Belen BALANYA,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 03/01/2023 under case number 2023/0063.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 24/01/2023, because:
• (part of) the documents requested originate from third parties, which
have been consulted;
• the application concerns documents held by different Services, which
must be consulted.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 14/02/2023.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
C2 Secretariat
Directorate-General for Climate Action
References
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1. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/...
Dear Ms Balanya,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 03.01.2023 under case number 2023/0063.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request.
We will not be able to send you the reply within the prescribed time limit
expiring on 14.02.2023. In order to retrieve the documents you requested,
different services in the Commission and thid parties had to be contacted
and consulted for the disclosure of the relevant documents.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you for your patience while we provide you with our final reply to
your request.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Ms Balanya,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/0063.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team
Dear Climate Action,
I confirm I have received the mails with 32 attachments,
Thank you,
Belen Balanya