Ref. Ares(2025)1796432 - 06/03/2025
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
The Director-General
Brussels
GROW.B.1
Pia Eberhardt
Finanzwende Motzstraße 32,
10777 Berlin
Germany
By e-mail: ask+request-15374-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents EASE 2025/0103
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
We refer to your e-mail of 08/01/2025 in which you made a request for access to
documents, registered on 09/01/2025 under the above-mentioned reference number and to
your emails of 18/02/2025 and 20/02/2025 clarifying your request.
Your initial request access concerns:
“[…] Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation
1049/2001, I am requesting all documentation (including but not limited to all email
correspondence, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts and
recordings) AND the meeting minutes/notes relating to the meeting(s) of Eleonora Ocello
and Thierry Breton with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and EQT on 4 December 2023.”
With the following clarifications:
“I would appreciate if you could apply my request to the roundtable, so send me all
documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence, attendance lists,
agendas, background papers, transcripts and recordings) AND the meeting minutes/notes
relating to the roundtable.”
“I am mainly interested in the lobby contacts of KKR and EQT, but imagine that it could
make sense to have context to make sense of the relevant information, so I would like to
request:
* minutes and other reports of the full roundtable
* internal Commission briefing for the roundtable in full
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
* any surrounding communication only with KKR and EQT (not other participants of the
roundtable).”
We regret to inform you that the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry,
Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application.
As it was explained to you, the meeting on December 4th 2023 was a roundtable event on
investment in digital and telecom infrastructures which was not organised by DG GROW.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your application,
are held by DG GROW, DG GROW is not in a position to fulfil your request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make
a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed to the Secretariat-General of the
Commission within 15 working days upon receipt of this letter. You can submit it in one
of the following ways:
by asking for a review via your
portal account (available only for initial requests
submitted via the portal account),
or by
mail:
European Commission
Secretariat-General Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents
(SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by
email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Kerstin Jorna
Director-General
electronically signed
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Electronically signed on 06/03/2025 10:33 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121