DG Grow-Meeting June 2011

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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents - including but not limited to agendas, correspondances, minutes, hand-written, notes, audio recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, e-mails, memos and presentations - related to the following meeting:

- 28th of June, 2011, meeting in Paris between Commissioner Michel Barnier and Jean-Paul Agon, director general of L'Oréal

My postal address is:
Juliette Gache
c/o Bocode studios
20 rue Bouvier
FR-75011 Paris

Yours faithfully

Gache Juliette

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Cher Marché intérieur, Industrie, Entrepreneuriat et PME,

Légalement, votre réponse devrait être rapide et délivrée d'ici le 04/06/2025

Je vous prie de croire, Monsieur/Madame, à l'assurance de mes salutations distinguées,

Gache Juliette

GROW-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

Could you please confirm that the two above-mentioned meetings :
- The April 26th, 2017, meeting between Commissionner Elzbieta Bienkowska or Cabinet of Commissionner Elzbieta Bienkowska and (…) Cosmetics Europe or a delegation of Cosmetics Europe.
- And the 28th of June, 2011, meeting in Paris between Commissioner Michel Barnier and (…)
L'Oréal
actually took place? If so, could you confirm that the DG Grow does not hold any kind of documents that are related to these meetings?

If not, could you please provide a list of meetings between Commissionner Elzbieta Bienkowska or Cabinet of Commissionner Elzbieta Bienkowska and Cosmetics Europe or a delegation of Cosmetics Europe that took place during the year 2017.

If not, could you similarly provide a list of the meetings between Commissioner Michel Barnier and (…)
L'Oréal that were held in 2011.

Yours faithfully,

Gache Juliette

GROW-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Dear Ms Gache,

We do not hold documents containing such lists, but our services will reply to your information request concerning these lists of meetings (by way of extracting the relevant information from our past archives) within these next two weeks. In this reply you will also have a final answer concerning these mentioned meetings.

Kind regards,
DG GROW - Access to Documents

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GROW-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Dear Ms Gache,

Regarding your additional request for information, this is to let you know that we did not identify in our registries any meetings that took place between Cabinet Bienkowska and Cosmetics Europe in 2017.

Concerning the meeting in Paris between Commissioner Michel Barnier and L'Oréal on 28th of 2011, we regret to confirm, after a second check, that we do not hold any documents in our registries related to this meeting.

Kind regards,
DG GROW - Access to Documents

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