Ref. Ares(2025)2894363 - 09/04/2025
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Directorate A – Strategy, Analysis and Planning
The Director
Brussels
CLIMA.A
Luis Miguel Hurtado
Carrer Formentera, 15 Oficines 1 er B
Spain
Advanced copy by email:
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Subject: Your application for access to documents EASE 2025/1574
Dear Mr Hurtado,
We refer to your request for access to European Commission documents registered on 19
March 2025 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
“All documents related to the meeting held on 13 February 2025 in Brussels regarding the
challenges that the European Steel sector faces.
The meeting was attended by:
- Miguel Jose Garcia Jones (Cabinet member, Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)
- Representatives from Eurofer
- All correspondence (emails, letters, memos) exchanged between the European
Commission (including Commissioner Hoekstra’s Cabinet) and Eurofer regarding the
meeting, before and after the event.
- Preparatory documents, including briefing notes, agendas, talking points, or background
reports prepared for the meeting.
- Presentations (slides, reports, documents) shared during or related to the meeting.
- Meeting notes and minutes, including any conclusions or follow-up actions.
- A list of all participants, specifying their roles and affiliations.
- A summary of the topics discussed, covering key challenges, proposed solutions, and any
agreements or policy commitments made."
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
Office: BRE2 13/518 – Tel. direct line +32 229-92036
xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Your application concerns the following documents:
Title
Registration
Reference
1. Email_ EUROFER meeting request Commissioner
22/01/2025
Ares(2025)510789
Hoeekstra and European Steel
companies_18.12.24_Redacted
2. EUROFER letter to Commissioner
27/12/2024
Ares(2024)9255962
Hoekstra_18_12_24_Redacted
Please, note that you can find the minutes of the meeting held on 13.2.2025 at the following
link
Meetings with interest representatives .
With regard to the documents 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
names/initials and contact information of Commission staff members not pertaining to the
senior management, and 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 the 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.
The minutes were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant service of
the Cabinet of Commissioner Hoekstra. They solely reflect the service’s interpretation of the
interventions made and does not set out any official position of the third party to which the
documents refer, which was not consulted on its content. They do 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 to
the Secretariat-General of the Commission within 15 working days upon receipt of this letter.
You can submit it:
by mail to:
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European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or
by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Yvon SLINGENBERG
Director
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Electronically signed on 09/04/2025 15:23 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121