Ref. Ares(2022)3561658 - 10/05/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
The Director-General
Brussels
ENER.C2/CB/oa (2022)3562092
Ms Belen Balanya
Corporate Europe Observatory
By email:
ask+request-10887-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Balanya,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/1744
We refer to your e-mail of 23 March 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 24 March 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.
We regret to inform you that the Directorate General for Energy (DG ENER) does not hold any
documents that would correspond to the description given in your application.
Please note that our Directorate General is not in charge of the Communication on sustainable
carbon cycles nor of the work on the future certification system of carbon removals. We have
not received correspondence requiring our action on these topics. When mentioned in meetings,
we consistently refer these issues to our colleagues in the Directorate General for Climate
Action (DG CLIMA), who lead on both files. However we would like to point out that we have
not received meeting requests where the topics you mentioned were listed.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as defined
in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your application,
are held by DG ENER, we are not in a position to fulfil your request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make a
confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/084 - Tel. direct line +32 22962496
xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
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
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
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Electronically signed on 10/05/2022 15:53 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121