Ref. Ares(2021)6587627 - 26/10/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D/HZ
Naomi Hirst
Global Witness
Rue Belliard 53
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
email:
ask+request-10030-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/5991
Dear Ms Hirst,
We refer to your request of 8 October 2021 registered under the above-mentioned
reference number in which you ask access to:
‘all documents — including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes
(hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational
conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations — related to the meeting on 2021-
09-08 between Anthony Whelan and DIGITALEUROPE’.
We identified the following document related to your request:
ARES(2021)6200163 - Short notes of the meeting, registered on 12 October
2021, Redacted
A complete disclosure of this document 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 it contains personal data.
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 subject might be prejudiced. In your request, you
neither 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 in the requested document, as the two conditions
mentioned above are not met.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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 of 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 t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
(E-signed)
Elisabeth WERNER
Director (Acting)
Enclosure:
ARES(2021)6200163_Redacted
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Electronically signed on 25/10/2021 19:59 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
