Ref. Ares(2021)2503195 - 13/04/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic & Social Affairs
SG.D.1 - Digital Transition, Industry & Single Market
Brussels
SG.D.1
Mr Alexander Fanta
Rue de la Loi 155
1040 Bruxelles
Belgium
By email: ask+request-9180-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/1370
Dear Mr Fanta,
We refer to your e-mail of 9 March 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 9 March 2021 under the above mentioned reference number.
You request access to all documents related to a meeting between members of the cabinet
of Ursula von der Leyen and Microsoft on January 21, 2021 as found in the Transparency
Register. The request includes e-mails, meeting minutes and any other document related
to the meeting.
The following document falls within the scope of your application:
Ares(2021)748217 – Minutes of the meeting with Microsoft, January 21,
2021, (hereafter ‘document 1’).
The document contains personal data which has been redacted.
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.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
This document was drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the relevant
officials. 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. As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
the right of access as defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the
possession of the institution.
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 Secretariat-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 faithfully,
(e-signed)
Olivier GIRARD
Head of Unit
Contacts:
Desk Office Nikita Feiz Barazandeh, Directorate D - Twin Transition, Economic &
Social Affairs
Enclosure:
disclosed documents
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Electronically signed on 12/04/2021 15:59 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
