Ref. Ares(2023)4176198 - 16/06/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
The Director
Brussels
SG.D/ER
Ms Roxburgh
by email:
ask+request-12861-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Roxburgh,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref EASE No 2023/2239
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 13/04/2023 under the
abovementioned reference number.
Your request concerns “
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 SSAB and Diederik
Samsom and Daniel Mes, Cabinet members of Frans Timmermans, on the 28th February
2023. 2. Between SSAB and Thomas Woolfson, Cabinet member of Margrethe Vestager
on the 28th February 2023. 3. Between thyssenkrupp and Frans Timmermans, Executive
Vice- President on the 28th March 2023. 4. Between thyssenkrupp and Michael Hager,
Cabinet member of Valdis Dombrovskis on the 28th February 2023.”
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, parts of your request have been
attributed to other Commission services (1). This reply concerns the part of your application
concerning the following meeting: “
3. Between thyssenkrupp and Frans Timmermans,
Executive Vice- President on the 28th March 2023.” The reply concerning the other parts
of your application was provided under reference number EASE 2023/2220.
The documents falling into the scope of your request as explained above are enclosed.
Please note that in line with Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, in the
attached documents, all personal data has been redacted. 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.
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
(1) EASE No 2023/2220
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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.
Please note that access is granted to minutes of a meeting with external parties. This
document was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant service
of the Secretariat-General. It solely reflects the author'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 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
Secretary-General Transparency unit SG-C.l
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
e-signed
Elisa Roller
Enclosures:
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Electronically signed on 16/06/2023 08:54 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
