Ref. Ares(2024)5329223 - 23/07/2024
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
The Director-General
Brussels, 23 July 2024
INTPA/D1(2024)s 5925770
By email:
Lora Verheecke
9 rue du Bronze 1070 Bruxelles
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – EASE 2024/3709
Dear Ms Verheecke,
We refer to your request registered on 11 July 2024 under the above-mentioned reference
number.
You requested the access to the correspondence, attendance lists, agendas, background
papers, transcripts and recordings and the meeting minutes/notes relating to the meeting
between Sandra Bartelt, Suvi Leinonen and Fleishman-Hillard on Global Gateway on
29th April 2024.
Your application concerns the following documents:
• Ares(2024)2938323 - meeting request (SB): Global Gateway for Critical Raw
Materials Development, Brussels, 29/04/2024 or 30/04/2024
• Ares(2024)5118826 - Debrief: meeting with Fleishman & Hillard, 29/04/2024
Protection of the privacy and the integrity of the individual:
A complete disclosure of document in annex 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 Regulation1 does not allow the transmission of
these personal data, except if you prove that it is necessary to have the data transmitted to
1 Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the
protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions,
bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No
45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC, OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39.
Commission européenne/Européisé Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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 there to 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.
Disclaimers:
You may reuse public documents, which have been produced by the European Commission
or by public and private entities on its behalf based on the
Commission Decision on the
reuse of Commission documents. You may reuse the documents disclosed free of charge
and for non-commercial and commercial purposes provided that the source is acknowledged
and that you do not distort the original meaning or message of the documents. Please note
that the Commission does not assume liability stemming from the reuse.
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 within 15 working days upon receipt
of this letter to the Secretary-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency,
Document
Management
&
Access
to
Documents
(SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Electronically signed
Koen DOENS
Enclosures:
• Annex 1 Ares(2024)2938323 - meeting request (SB): Global Gateway for Critical
Raw Materials Development, Brussels, 29/04/2024 or 30/04/2024
• Annex 2 Ares(2024)5118826 - Debrief: meeting with Fleishman & Hillard,
29/04/2024
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Electronically signed on 23/07/2024 11:31 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
