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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
SG.D.1 - Digital Transition, Industry & Single Market
Brussels
SG.D.1/EW
Naomi Hirst,
Global Witness,
Rue Belliard 53,
1000, Bruxelles,
Belgique
Email
: ask+request-10469-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Hirst,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/0094
We refer to your request for access to documents on 7 January 2022, registered under the
above-mentioned reference number.
You request 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 2021-12-02 between Christiane Canenbley and Werner Stengg and
Google”.
We have identified the following documents responsive to your request:
1. E-mail exchange leading to the 2 December 2021 meeting
2. Minutes of the 2 December 2021 meeting between the Cabinet of EVP Vestager
and Google representatives
3. Follow-up letter from Google
4. A follow-up e-mail from Google transmitting the follow-up letter
The full disclosure of the identified documents as listed above 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 (Regulation 2018/1725) 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 do 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.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
The minutes of the meeting were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of
their author. The 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.
Moreover, some parts of the document under point 3 have been blanked out as their
disclosure is prevented by the exception to the right of access laid down in Article 4 of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 as they contain commercially sensitive business
information of the company that submitted it.
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 t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Electronically signed
Elisabeth WERNER
Director (acting)
Enclosure:
disclosed documents
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