Ref. Ares(2023)3985070 - 08/06/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D/ER
Lora Verheecke
Email
: ask+request-13000-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2023/2940
We refer to your email of 18/05/2023 requesting for access to documents.
Your request was registered on 18/05/2023 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 and recordings) AND the meeting
minutes/notes relating to the meeting between Dimitri Lorenzani and Penta (formerly
Hume Brophy) on 22nd March 2023.
We have identified the following documents responsive to your request:
1. Ares(2023)3609096 Minutes_Meeting with AMG Lithium – DL_Redacted
2. Ares(2023)3639839 Meeting request_Redacted
3. Ares(2023)3911520 Invitation for discussion
With regard to the documents listed above, a complete disclosure of the identified
documents is prevented in view of the considerations set out below.
Full disclosure 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 institutions or 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
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neither express any particular interest to have access to these personal data, nor put forward
arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in the
public interest.
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
Elisa Roller
Director
Enclosure:
disclosed documents
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Electronically signed on 08/06/2023 16:07 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121