Ref. Ares(2024)3244532 - 03/05/2024
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
The Director-General
Brussels, 03 May 2024
ENER.TF.3/TJ/mc
ener.tf.3(2024)997758
Lala Hakuma Dadci
Corporate Europe Observatory
By email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – ATD 2023/3839
Dear Ms Dadci,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 4 July 2023 under
reference number 2023/3839.
You request access to:
• Copies of correspondence (emails) and details of meetings (internal Commission
briefing notes, agendas, minutes) between Kadri Simson, (and / or her team);
Ditte Juul Jorgensen (and / or her private secretary); and /or Matthew Baldwin
and / and / or Cristina Lobillo Borrero, with: Amos Hochstein, US Senior Advisor
for Energy Security; Senior officials from the US State Department; Senior
executives from Cheniere, EQT, MiQ, and or Project Canary; Concerning energy
security, US / EU energy cooperation and US LNG exports to the EU, including
“responsibly sourced” or “certified gas” from 1st March 2022 until today;
The following documents fall within the scope of your application:
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Ares/BASIS reference
Date
Title
1
Ares(2023)5646188
06.03.2023
Readout: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with Cheniere
2
Ares(2023)5645040
06.03.2023
Readout: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with Amos Hochstein
3
Ares(2023)6088056
06.03.2023
Readout: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with ENI
4
Ares(2023)5650581
06.03.2023
Readout: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with Geoffrey R Pyatt
5
Ares(2023)6086850
31.05.2023
Meeting Director Cristina Lobillo
Borrero with Geoffrey R Pyatt
6
Ares(2023)7576327
23.05.2022
Briefing:
Commissioner
with
US
Ambassador
7
Ares(2023)7576027
08.11.2023
Email: US Ambassador to Cabinet of
Commissioner Simson
8
Ares(2023)3615854
23.05.2023
MEETING
REQUEST
KS
14-
16/06/2023 Brussels BE - Meeting with
U.S. LNG coalition
9
Ares(2023)3228787
20.04.2023
Email:
PAGE
to
Cabinet
of
Commissioner Simson
10 Ares(2023)7992417
16.06.2023
Readout:
Meeting
Commissioner
Simson with PAGE
11 Ares(2022)4748788
29.06.2022
Email: Project Canary with Cabinet of
Commissioner Simson
12 Ares(2023)7278742
06.06.2023
Email: Response from Cabinet of
Commissioner Simson to PAGE
13 Ares(2023)4322888
24.05.2023
Readout: Cabinet of Commissioner
Simson with PAGE
14 Ares(2023)3229234
08.05.2023.
[Re] MEETING REQUEST HH [open
date] Brussels BE - Meeting with an
alliance
of
LNG
producers
and
infrastructure owners from the US –
PAGE - MEETING WITH HH &
ENER OFFERED
15 ENER/7032
06.03.2023
Briefing: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with Cheniere
16 Update of ENER/6627
02.06.2022
Briefing: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with U.S. LNG companies
17 ENER/6722
05.07.2022
Briefing: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with Cheniere
18 ENER/6902
04.11.2022
Briefing: Meeting DG Ditte Juul
Jørgensen with Cheniere
Having examined the documents requested in light of the provisions of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, I have concluded that documents 1 to 14
listed above may be partially disclosed.
A complete disclosure of the documents 1 to 14 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:
• the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not
pertaining to the senior management;
• 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
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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 addition, a complete disclosure of document 15 to 18 is prevented by Article 4(1)(a) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 concerning the protection of the public interest as regards
international relations within the meaning of the said article.
Please note that documents originating from third parties, which have been consulted, are
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.
As a result, please find enclosed redacted copies of the documents that can be released.
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,
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
pp. Matthew Baldwin
Deputy Director-General
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Electronically signed on 04/04/2024 15:15 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
