Ref. Ares(2022)8138532 - 24/11/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
The Director-General
Brussels
GROW.B.1
Ms. Clothilde Goujard
Rue de la Loi 62
1040 Brussels
Belgium
By email: ask+request-11960-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Your application for access to documents – EASE 2022/5956
Dear Ms. Goujard,
We refer to your e-mail received on 12 October 2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to:
Breton cabinet and Roblox Corporation on 27/09/2022
Breton cabinet and Tata Consultancy Services on 16/09/2022
Breton cabinet and Samsung Electronics Europe on 16/09/2022
Breton cabinet and Spotify on 07/09/2022
“
On those meetings, I am requesting the following documents:
All minutes, agendas, summary, memos and any other reports of these meetings,
issued both in preparation and after the meeting took place.
All correspondence including attachments (including, but not limited to any
emails, correspondence or telephone call notes) and follow-ups between any
Directorates
General/the
cabinet,
Commissioner
Breton
and
the
companies/organizations or any intermediaries their interests.
All correspondence including attachments (i.e. any emails, correspondence or
telephone call notes) and follow-ups between any Directorates General, the
cabinet and Commissioner Breton about those meetings issued both prior and
after.
All documents prepared for the meetings and exchanges in the course of the
meeting between both parties.”
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, covering also areas falling under
the responsibility of other Directorates-General, parts of your request have been
attributed to other Directorates-General1. This reply relates only to the documents held by
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG
1 DG CNECT: 2022/5796
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
GROW). You received / will receive the replies from the other respective Directorates-
General in due course.
We regret to inform you that DG GROW does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application.
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 GROW, DG GROW is 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.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon
receipt of this letter. You can submit it in one of the following ways:
by asking for a review via your portal2 account (available only for initial requests
submitted via the portal account),
or by mail:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency,
Document
Management
&
Access
to
Documents
(SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Electronically signed
Kerstin Jorna
Director-General
2
https://www.ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request
2
Electronically signed on 24/11/2022 15:22 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121