Ref. Ares(2021)5373254 - 31/08/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D – Twin Transitions, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D.1/JW
to be sent via email to Ms Rachel Cox:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/4878
Dear Ms Cox,
We refer to your e-mail of 4 August 2021 in which you make a request for access to documents,
registered on 04 August 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to all documents related to the meeting on 15 July 2021 between Christiane
Canenbley and Werner Stengg and Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag.
Your application concerns the following documents:
- Ares(2021)4082065 :“Anfrage praxisorientierter Austausch zu Auswirkungen der
geplanten Due Diligence-Gesetzgebung mit Unternehmen”, email exchange of 23
June 2021
-
Ares(2021)5252435 : Minutes of the Meeting between Cabinet of Executive-Vice
President Vestager and Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer (DIHK), 15 July
2021
Full disclosure of these documents 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 personal data.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation does not allow transmitting these personal data,
except if you prove that this is necessary 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
put forward arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in
the public interest.
Consequently, 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.
Please note that the minutes were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the
Secretariat-General. This document solely reflects the author’s interpretation of the interventions
made and does not set out any official position of the third party to which the document refers,
which was not consulted on its content. It does not reflect the position of the Commission and
cannot be quoted as such.
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Office: BERL 06/087 - Tel. direct line +32 229-53307
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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,
Electronically signed
Elisabeth WERNER
Acting Director
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Electronically signed on 31/08/2021 15:53 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
