Ref. Ares(2023)6041658 - 06/09/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A – Energy policy: Strategy and Coordination
A.1 – Strategy, Policy Coordination and Planning, Inter-institutional Relations
The Head of Unit
Brussels, 06/09/2023
MP ener.a.1(2023)9247724
Ms Lala Hakuma Dadci
Mundo B
Rue d’Edimbourg 26
1050 Brussels
by email: ask+request-13238-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – EASE 2023/4510
Dear Ms Dadci,
We refer to your e-mail registered on 28 July 2023 under the above-mentioned reference
number, in which you make a request for access to documents.
You request access to
the full minutes of the following meeting:
"Barbara GLOWACKA, Helena Hinto 24/05/2023 Virtual Fleishman-Hillard
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Meeting with PAGE, an alliance of LNG producers and infrastructure owners from the
US to discuss the EU-US agreements around LNG”.
Your application concerns the following document:
Nr Stakeholder
Ares
Date
Title
1
PAGE
Ares(2023)4322888
22/06/2023
VC meeting with PAGE
representatives
Having examined the document requested under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, I have come to the conclusion that the
document listed above may be partially disclosed.
In fact, a complete disclosure of the identified 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 the following personal data:
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/084 – Tel. direct line +32 229-62496
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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.
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
document, 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.
The document contains minutes of a meeting with external parties. This document was
drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant service. It solely reflects
the service’s interpretation of the interventions made and does not set out any official
position of the third parties to which the document refers. It does not reflect the position
of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
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 to the Secretariat-General of the
Commission 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 portal1 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 Bruxelles
or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Electronically signed
Paula Abreu Marques
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https://www.ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request
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Electronically signed on 05/09/2023 18:36 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
