Ref. Ares(2022)4148847 - 03/06/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Directorate I – Legal, procedural and inter-institutional affairs
I.1 – Agricultural law and enforcement
Brussels
AGRI.I.1/CCL/RW D(2022)4467038
Dear Sir,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/2688
We refer to your e-mail of 3/05/2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 12/05/2022 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 April 19 between Jorge Pinto Antunes and Gas Distributors for
Sustainability.
Your application concerns the following documents:
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Title/kind (email,
Author
Ares no and date of the
AGRI
Comment
o
note) of document
of the
document
decision
doc.
1 01 emails –
CAB
Ares(2022)1401999
Give
Personal
meeting
J.W. and
23.02.2022
agreement
Data
arrangements
GD4S
redacted
2 02 email after
GD4S
Ares(2022)3718318
Give
Personal
meeting
17.05.2022
agreement
Data
redacted
3 02a GD4S
GD4S
Ares(2022)3718318
Give
Personal
position paper
17.05.2022
agreement
Data
redacted
4 02b WWF report
WWF
Ares(2022)3718318
Give
Public
17.05.2022
agreement
document
5 02c GD4S
GD4S
Ares(2022)3718318
Give
presentation
17.05.2022
agreement
6 02d GD4S
GD4S
Ares(2022)3718318
Give
presentation
17.05.2022
agreement
7 02e GD4S follow-
GD4S
Ares(2022)3718318
Give
up paper
13.05.2022
agreement
8 03 minutes of
DG
Ares(2022)3819016
Give
Personal
meeting
AGRI
20/05/2022
agreement
Data
redacted
Mr. Barnaby Pace
Global Witness,
Rue Belliard 53,
1000 Bruxelles
Belgique
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
With regard to the documents numbers: 01, 02, 02a, and 03 listed above, a complete
disclosure of the identified 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 the following personal data:
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the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not
pertaining to the senior management;
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the names/initials and contact details of other natural persons;
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handwritten signatures/abbreviated signatures of natural persons;
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 do not
express any particular interest to have access to these personal data nor do you put forward
any arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose
in the public interest.
Consequently, I conclude that, 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, as the need to obtain access thereto for a purpose in the public interest has not
been substantiated and there is no reason to think that the legitimate interests of the
individuals concerned would not be prejudiced by disclosure of the personal data concerned.
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
You may reuse the documents disclosed free of charge and for non-commercial and
commercial purposes provided that the source is acknowledged and that you do not
distort the original meaning or message of the documents. Please note that the
Commission does not assume liability stemming from the reuse.
Please note that documents originating from third parties disclosed to you based on
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is without prejudice to the rules
on intellectual property, which may limit your right to reproduce or exploit the released
documents without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual
property right on them. The European Commission does not assume any responsibility
from their reuse.
The document n°03 was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant
services of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development. It solely
reflects the services’ interpretation of the interventions made and does not set out any
official position of the third parties to which the document refers, which was not
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consulted on its content. It does not reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be
quoted as such.
Yours faithfully,
Cristina Carrasco Lorente
Head of Unit
Enclosure:
3 documents and 5 annexes
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Electronically signed on 03/06/2022 15:10 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
