Ref. Ares(2021)5899726 - 28/09/2021
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
Mr Barnaby Pace
Global Witness
Rue Belliard 53
B-1000 Brussels
Copy by email:
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Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2021/4710
Dear Mr Pace,
I refer to your e-mail of 8 September 2021, registered on 9 September 2021, in which
you submit a confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(2) 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
26 July 2021 in which you requested access to the following documents:
‘All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes
(handwritten or electronic), audio or video recordings,
verbatim reports, operational
conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting (or
meetings) on 3 May 2019 between Bernd Biervert, Dominique Ristori and LNG Allies.’
As you did not receive any initial reply from the Directorate-General for Energy within
the statutory time limits, you submitted a confirmatory application on 8 September 2021.
In the meantime, the Directorate-General for Energy sent you its initial reply on
20 September 20212.
1 Official Journal L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
2 It is registered under reference Ares(2021)5742794.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111

Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory
application.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with
Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the
initial reply of the Directorate-General for Energy of 20 September 2021.
Yours sincerely,
María Oliván Avilés
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 28/09/2021 11:35 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482