Ref. Ares(2020)2544579 - 14/05/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
Directorate A - Energy policy
A.1 – Strategy and Policy Coordination
Brussels
ENER.A.1/PP/AV(2020) 2886286
By registered letter with acknowledgment
of receipt
Faye Holder
40 Bermondsey Street
London
United Kingdom
Advance copy by email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Holder,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/1505
We refer to your e-mail dated 13/03/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 14/03/2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to:
All documentation, including but not limited to attendance lists, agendas, background
papers, minutes/notes and email correspondence about or summarising, the following
meetings:
1. Between Shell Companies (Shell) and member of Commissioner Kadri Simson's
Cabinet, Laure Chapuis-Kombos on 14/02/2020.
2. Between Shell Companies (Shell) and member of Commissioner Kadri Simson's
Cabinet, Kitti Nyitrai on 11/02/2020.
3. Between Global CCS Institute Ltd (GCCSI) and member of Commissioner Kadri
Simson's Cabinet, Laure Chapuis-Kombos on 12/01/2020.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/153 - Tel. direct line +32 229-20815
xxxxx.xxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
4. Between Gazprom and members of Commissioner Kadri Simson's Cabinet, Stefano
Grassi and Kitti Nyitrai on 09/01/2020.
Your application concerns the following documents:
Ares reference
Date
Title
Author
Ares(2020)2228137 14/02/2020
Minutes of meeting
Cabinet Commissioner
with Shell
Simson
Ares(2020)1210499 11/02/2020
Minutes of meeting Cabinet Commissioner
with Shell
Simson
Ares(2020)2227458 12/01/2020
Minutes of meeting Cabinet Commissioner
with
Global
CCS Simson
Institute Ltd (GCCSI)
Ares(2020)1126946 09/01/2020
Minutes of meeting Cabinet Commissioner
with Gazprom
Simson
I am glad to inform you that we can give you access to the four documents listed above,
subject only to the redaction of personal data.
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 the following personal data:
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the names of Commission staff members not pertaining to the senior management;
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the names 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.
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:
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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 sincerely,
(e-signed)
Paula PINHO
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 13/05/2020 19:53 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563
