Meetings between Commission and industry representatives
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents including but not limited to attendance lists, agendas, background papers, minutes/notes about or summarising, the following meetings. Please exclude any email correspondences determining a time to meet.
- Zurich Insurance and cabinet of Vera Jourova regarding Corporate Sustainability and due diligence (15/05/23)
- FISMA - John Berrigan and Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A regarding Solvency II (07/07/2023)
- FISMA – John Berrigan and Insurance Europe regarding the Solvency II review (17/02/23)
- FISMA – Cabinet members of Mairead McGuinness and Insurance Europe regarding Solvency II (10/01/23)
- Correspondences with the following organisations and the Commission containing the following terms: ‘anti-ESG’, ‘ESG backlash’, ‘sustainable finance backlash’ between 01/2023 - 03/2024.
o Zurich Insurance
o Munich RE
o Allianz SE / Allianz GI
o Insurance Europe
o Lloyds Insurance
Thank you!
Yours faithfully,
Tazu Walden
1 Temple Avenue
London
EC4Y0HA
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 27/03/2024 and registered on 27/03/2024 under the case number
2024/1739.
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/1740.
Kind regards,
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Thank you for your response and I supply a clarification below.
Beyond the meeting documents I have detailed in my request, I am looking for a list of any email or other correspondence between Commissioner Mairead McGuinness' office or John Berrigan's FISMA office, and listed industry representatives. I would then like to any concerning the anti-ESG movement/backlash against sustainable finance in the US and its consequences for Europe.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Tazu Walden
1 Temple Avenue
London
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Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/1740.
Kind regards,
Dear M. Walden,
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 22 April 2024.
We are currently researching your documents.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 6 May 2024.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
European Commission
Directorate-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital
Markets Union
Insurance and pensions (D4)
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B-1049 Brussels, Belgium
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Dear Ms Walden,
We have sent you on 12 April 2024 a letter, proposing a fair solution, as
regards to your request to Access to the Documents registered under EASE
2024/1740.
We have not received a reply and this way we wish to remind you of our
letter and inform you if we do not receive a reply within 2 working days
upon the receipt of this email, our service will unilaterally restrict the
scope of your request.
We thank you in advance for your cooperation,
Best regards,
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.D3 | Cohesion, Economic and Social Affairs
B-1049 Brussels
Dear European Commission FOI,
Please limit the scope of the request to the first half of the original request. To recap what this was: requesting documents including but not limited to attendance lists, agendas, background papers, minutes/notes about or summarising, the following meetings. Please exclude any email correspondences determining a time to meet.
- Zurich Insurance and cabinet of Vera Jourova regarding Corporate Sustainability and due diligence (15/05/23)
- FISMA - John Berrigan and Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A regarding Solvency II (07/07/2023)
- FISMA – John Berrigan and Insurance Europe regarding the Solvency II review (17/02/23)
- FISMA – Cabinet members of Mairead McGuinness and Insurance Europe regarding Solvency II (10/01/23)
Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely,
Tazu Walden
1 Temple Avenue
EC4Y0HA
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/1740.
Kind regards,
Dear M. Walden,
We thank you for your interest in our work. We are still in the process of
searching for the documents you requested. We will revert to you promptly.
Thank you for your understanding.
Dear M. Walden,
We thank you for your interest in our work. We are still in the process of
searching for the documents you requested. We will revert to you promptly.
Thank you for your understanding.
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/1740.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
Dear European Commission FOI,
Apologies for my late response to this. Wanted to ask some clarificatory questions regarding your response to – EASE 2024/1740. You mention that you split the scope of the request between FISMA and the Secretariat related documents, and that FISMA replies will follow under case reference number EASE 2024/1739. Can I confirm firstly that these documents will be sent to this same channel, and secondly ask for a timeline on their delivery?
Thanks again for your help.
Yours sincerely,
Tazu Walden
1 Temple Avenue
EC4Y0HA
Apologies
Yours faithfully,
Tazu Walden
Dear Mr Walden,
Please find attached a letter regarding your EASE 2024/3917 request.
Kind regards,
SG.E.1
Dear Mr. Sleath,
I appreciate you taking the time to locate this document.
Yours sincerely,
Tazu Walden