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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A – Energy policy: Strategy and Coordination
A.1 – Interinstitutional, Policy Coordination and Planning
Brussels , 17/08/2022
ENER.A.1/MP/(2022)6402487
Mr CRANSTON Alex
1 Long Ln, London
by email: ask+request-9694-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/4148
Dear Sir,
We refer to your e-mail of 21 June 2021 in which you make a request for access to documents,
registered on 23 June 2021 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to
all documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence,
attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts, recordings and minutes/notes)
relating to the meeting listed below:
1. Between Conféderation Européenne des Propriétaires Forestiers (CEPF) and Laure Chapuis-
Kombos & Peeter Kadarik (Cabinet members of Commissioner Kadri Simson) on 21/06/2021.
Your application concerns the following documents:
(1)
MEETING REQUEST LC open date - as follow up on forest owners and managers letter on
current discussions on bioenergy (31/05/2021)
(2)
Letter sharing key points from forest owners and managers on current discussions on
bioenergy (28/04/2021)
(3)
MEETING request to the CAB Members and follow-up to the letter sharing key points from
forest owners and managers on current discussions on bioenergy (25/05/2021)
(4)
MEETING request to the CAB Members and follow-up to the letter sharing key points from
forest owners and managers on current discussions on bioenergy (09/06/2021)
(5)
Report Laure Chapuis meeting with Conféderation Européenne des Propriétaires Forestiers
(CEPF) held on 21/06/2021
I am glad to inform you that you can have wide partial access to all documents, subject only to
the redaction of personal data. Please find enclosed redacted copies of these documents.
With regard to the documents 1, 2, 3, and 4 listed above, a complete disclosure of the identified
documents is prevented by the exception concerning the protection of privacy and the integrity of the
individual outlined in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, because they contain the
following personal data:
- the names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining to
the senior management;
- the names/initials and contact details of other natural persons.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Data Protection Regulation does not allow the transmission of these
personal data, except if you prove that it is necessary to have the data transmitted to you for a
specific purpose in the public interest and where there is no reason to assume that the legitimate
interests of the data subject might be prejudiced. In your request, you do not express any particular
interest to have access to these personal data nor do you put forward any arguments to establish the
necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in the public interest.
Consequently, I conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, access
cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the requested documents, as the need to obtain
access thereto for a purpose in the public interest has not been substantiated and there is no reason to
think that the legitimate interests of the individuals concerned would not be prejudiced by disclosure
of the personal data concerned.
Please note that documents originating from third parties are disclosed to you based on
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is without prejudice to the rules on
intellectual property, which may limit your right to reproduce or exploit the released documents
without the agreement of the originator, who may hold an intellectual property right on them. The
European Commission does not assume any responsibility from their reuse.
Access is granted to minutes of a videoconference with external parties. This document was
drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant service. It solely reflects the
service’s interpretation of the interventions made and does not set out any official position of the
third parties to which the document refers, which was not consulted on its content. It does not
reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
In case you would disagree with this position, you are entitled, in accordance with Article 7(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, to submit a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to
review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt of this
letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels, or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Electronically signed
(p.o. Guus van de Schouw)
Paula Abreu Marques
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 18/08/2022 16:10 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
