Corporate Use

Dear Mr. Teffer,

Thank you for your message to the European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU Bank.

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your query. In accordance with the provisions of the EIB Group Transparency Policy, we will revert to you without delay and in any case within 15 work-ing days from the date of receipt of your request.

In line with Article 5.23 and 5.24 of the EIB Group Transparency Policy, should we consider your request to be complex, we will endeavour to provide a reply no later than 30 working days fol-lowing receipt.

We thank you in advance for your understanding and remain at your disposal should you need any further update on the handling of your query by the EIB.

Yours sincerely,

Infodesk Team
European Investment Bank
[EIB request email]
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For more details concerning EIB procedures for handling information requests, please refer to the EIB Group "Transparency Policy": ( https://www.eib.org/publications/eib-gro... ). If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

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Dear Mr. Teffer,

We refer to your message of 17 February 2025 sent to the European
Investment Bank (EIB) via the AsktheEU.org website, requesting access to
documents related to the InvestEU Green Securitisation Lending Envelope
EIB operation. We also refer to our acknowledgement of receipt of the same
date. Your request has been handled on the basis of the EIB Group
Transparency Policy (EIB-TP)[1][1], which applies to such requests
addressed to the EIB.

We would first like to inform you that publicly available information
regarding this operation is published on the EIB website: [2]INVESTEU
GREEN SECURITISATION LE

As indicated on the Bank’s website, please note that this operation is a
Lending Envelope, that seeks to create additional lending capacity,
through securitisation operations, to financial intermediaries, in order
to boost their lending to small and medium scale projects eligible under
Annex II of InvestEU regulation, in particular points 1, 2 and 3.

As of today, one Sub-Operation has been approved under this operation with
NDB Bank ASA. You will find information regarding this operation on the
Bank’s website: [3]DNB ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE ACTION

Concerning your request for access to “All documents - including but not
limited to finance contracts, borrowing conditions, minutes,
(hand-written) notes, audio recordings, verbatim reports, project status
reports, monitoring documents, financial disbursements, appraisal reports,
evaluations, monitoring, operational conclusions, complaints, lines to
take, briefings, e-mails, and presentations”, please note that the EIB due
diligence involves several different services of the Bank covering the
financial, economic, technical, climate environmental and social aspects
of the project, and as such, the EIB does not keep a unified list of all
documents.

Therefore, should you wish to obtain any particular information regarding
the EIB operation beyond what is published on the Bank’s website, we would
invite you to further specify the type of information that you would like
to obtain in order for the Bank to better identify the documents or
information requested and assess their disclosure in line with the
provisions of its Transparency Policy[4][2].

Please also note that, while the EIB is committed to a policy of
presumption of disclosure and transparency, it also has the duty to
respect confidentiality in compliance with EU laws, including the
obligation not to disclose information of the kind covered by the
obligation of professional secrecy in accordance with Article 339 TFEU, as
well as legislation to protect personal data. National regulations and
banking sector standards covering business contracts and market activity
may also apply. The exceptions to disclosure described in section 5 of the
EIB-TP may therefore affect our ability to disclose certain
documents/information[5][3].

We hope this information is useful and remain at your disposal should you
need any further clarifications[6][4].

Yours sincerely,

Infodesk Team

European Investment Bank

[7][EIB request email]

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[1] 
[8]https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-...

2 Art. 5.19, EIB-TP

3 Art 5.3, EIB-TP

4 In line with Art. 5.31 EIB-TP, in case of a total or partial refusal
following your initial application, you have the right to make a
confirmatory application asking the Bank to reconsider its position or
lodge a complaint with the EIB Group Complaints Mechanism.

_______________________

For more details concerning EIB procedures for handling information
requests, please refer to the EIB Group "Transparency Policy":
[9]https://www.eib.org/publications/eib-gro...
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

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