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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communication
Brussels
Lucy Owens
1 Long Ln,
London
SE1 4PG,
United Kingdom
Email: ask+request-9766-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2021/4590
Dear Ms Owens,
We refer to your e-mail dated in 12 July 2021 which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 16 July 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested access to “
All correspondence, including emails, sent and received since
01/01/2020, between the Commissioner for Climate Action, his cabinet, his officials, and
any other representatives of DG CLIMA, and representatives from the European
Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)”.
DG CLIMA has identified several documents that fall under scope of the request, the list
of documents is enclosed to this letter.
Following an examination of identified documents under the provisions of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents and taking into account the opinion of
the third party, I regret to inform you that a complete disclosure of the documents 1, 2, 5-7,
9, 11-14, 17, 19, 21-25, 27, 28, 30-34, 36-43, 45, 46, 48-52, 55 and 56 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: names and contact
information of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management; names
and contact details of other natural persons and other information relating to an identified or
identifiable natural person.
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
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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 above mentioned
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
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Luca DE CARLI
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Electronically signed on 29/09/2021 14:56 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
