Documents recording interactions with external parties regarding draft delegated acts under Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Dear Competition,
In accordance with Regulation 1049/2001, Regulation 1367/2006 and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, ClientEarth AISBL hereby requests access to documents pertaining to the following two draft delegated regulations published for feedback on 20 May 2022 under Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (collectively, the ‘Proposed Delegated Acts’):
(1) draft delegated regulation establishing a minimum threshold for greenhouse gas emissions savings of recycled carbon fuels and by specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin and from recycled carbon fuels (Ref: Ares(2022)3836721), and
(2) draft delegated regulation establishing a Union methodology setting out detailed rules for the production of renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin (Ref: Ares(2022)3836651).
Specifically, ClientEarth requests access to the following:
(a) Documents revealing the existence of meetings that have taken place since 1 January 2021 between DG COMP staff on the one hand and representatives of external parties (including but not limited to lobby consultancies and law firms) on the other hand, in which one or both of the Proposed Delegated Acts were mentioned;
(b) Minutes and other reports of these meetings;
(c) All correspondence (including emails, letters, attached documents and enclosures) since 1 January 2021 between DG COMP staff on the one hand and representatives of external parties (including but not limited to lobby consultancies and law firms) on the other hand, in which one or both of the Proposed Delegated Acts were mentioned.
Kind Regards,
Thomas Burman
Senior Jurist/Lawyer, Energy Systems
ClientEarth AISBL
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Dear Sir
We refer to your e-mail dated 14 June 2022 in which you make a request for
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Subject: RE: access to documents request - Documents recording
interactions with external parties regarding draft delegated acts under
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 14/06/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
14/06/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/3433.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on
05/07/2022. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be
informed in due course.
You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore, the
European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or
problems linked to the use of this system.
Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website
is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data
via that website, and not the Commission. For further information on your
rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.
We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).
Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
the AsktheEU.org website.
If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is
published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can
provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future
electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address,
and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You
should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website
about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply
from, the Commission.
For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
[7]Privacy statement – access to documents.
Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
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Access to Documents team
DG Competition-European Commission
MADOU-12-85 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
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