Ref. Ares(2022)4039946 - 31/05/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
SG.C.1
By registered letter with AR
Ms Belén Balanyá
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d’Edimbourg 26,
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Copy by email: ask+request-11069-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2022/1722
Dear Ms Balanyá,
I refer to your e-mail of 17 May 2022, registered on 18 May 2022, in which you submit a
confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of
23 March 2022 in which you requested access to, I quote:
‘- minutes of the meeting between President von der Leyen and the Chairman of
the ERT held on 5 March 2022.’
The initial request was assigned to the Secretariat-General. As you did not receive an
initial reply from the Secretariat-General within the statutory time limits, you submitted a
confirmatory application on 17 May 2022.
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on 24 May 2022 (under
reference number Ares(2022)3902963).
1 OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111

Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory application
related to the lack of initial reply.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the initial
reply of 24 May 2022.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca
Deputy Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 25/05/2022 22:08 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121