Lobby meetings with Blackstone and Apollo
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
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 following meetings:
- Meeting of Valdis Dombrovskis with Blackstone on 1 October 2021
- Meeting of Nicolo Brignoli and Michael Hager with Apollo Global Management on 1 October 2024
Yours faithfully,
Pia Eberhardt
Finanzwende
Motzstraße 32
10777 Berlin
Germany
Dear Sir or Madam,
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sent on 08/01/2025 and registered on 08/01/2025 under the case number
2025/0093.
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Ms Eberhardt,
Please find attached the reply to your initial request for public access
to Commission documents registered under the above case number EASE
2025/0093.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email. Thank you
very much in advance!
Kind regards,
DG TRADE Public Access to Documents Team
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
I herewith confirm that I have received the response.
However, I was wondering whether more will follow relating to the meeting of Valdis Dombrovskis with Blackstone on 1 October 2021. Or have there been no minutes taken of this meeting - and no correspondence in advance or after the meeting? Thank you very much for the clarification!
Yours faithfully,
Pia Eberhardt
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Dear Ms Eberhardt,
We refer to your application for public access to documents of 8 January
2025, registered under the EASE reference number 2025/0093.
Your application is currently being handled and the reply to it should be
finalised very soon.
However, we will not be in a position to complete the handling of your
application within the time limit of 15 working days, which expires on 29
January 2025, i.e. today.
An extended time limit is needed as different Services must be consulted.
Therefore, we have to extend the time limit by 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents.
The new time limit expires on 19 February 2025.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
DG TRADE Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
CHAR
1049 Brussels
Belgium
Dear Madams and Sirs,
I have an outstanding clarification question on my access to documents request, which was registered under the EASE reference number 2025/0093.
DG Trade's access to documents team responded to the request on 3 February - but the response only covered part of the request, namely the documents related to meeting of Nicolo Brignoli and Michael Hager with Apollo Global Management on 1 October 2024.
There were no documents relating to the second part of the request - the meeting of Valdis Dombrovskis with Blackstone on 1 October 2021.
On 3 February I had sent the following clarification question via the asktheeu.org, to which I did not receive a response: "I was wondering whether more will follow relating to the meeting of Valdis Dombrovskis with Blackstone on 1 October 2021. Or have there been no minutes taken of this meeting - and no correspondence in advance or after the meeting? Thank you very much for the clarification!"
Would you be so kind to come back to me on this issue?
Thank you very much and kind regards!
Pia Eberhardt
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
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upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
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a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
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aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
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informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
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