Meetings with fertiliser industry - Energy
Dear Energy,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting:
Any documents related to the following meetings, including (but not limited to) email correspondence, attachments shared before or after the meeting, presentations, minutes, agendas, briefings and lists of attendees.
- Yara and Ruud Kempener, Cabinet member of Kadri Simson (27/10/2023);
- Fertilizers Europe and Kadri Simson and Tatiana Marquez Uriarte, Cabinet member of Kadri Simson (22/01/2024);
- Fertilizers Europe and Tatiana Marquez Uriarte, Stefano Grassi, and Kadri Simson (14/10/2021)
I would like to receive this information electronically.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation.
I would prefer you to produce the documents on a rolling basis, rather than waiting until the full response is ready, and I would be pleased to receive an initial list of all documents as soon as possible.
I kindly ask you to not redact any name of professional lobbyists and the organisations and companies they work, as such data cannot be considered personal data under Regulations 1049/2001 on access to documents and 45/2001 on data protection.
My address is: 5 Brayford Square, London, E1 0SG
If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours faithfully,
Clare Carlile
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Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 27/11/2024 and registered on 27/11/2024 under the case number
2024/6557.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 18/12/2024. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Ms Carlile,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 27/11/2024 under case number 2024/6557.
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 18/12/2024.
The application concerns documents held by different Services, which must
be consulted.
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 21/01/2025.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
DG ENER Access to Documents Team
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Dear Energy,
Many thanks for your response. I look forward to your reply by 21 January.
Yours faithfully,
Clare Carlile
Dear Energy,
Please could you provide an update on this FOI request. By law, under all circumstances, a response should have been filed by this time.
Yours faithfully,
Clare Carlile
Dear Ms Carlile,
We would like to sincerely apologize for the delay in responding to your
request.
We want to assure you that we have been diligently working on finalizing
your request. Our team has been carefully reviewing the details and
ensuring that the reply will be sent as soon as possible.
We would like to thank you for your patience and understanding during this
process.
If you have any further questions or require additional information,
please do not hesitate to reach out to this email address.
Thank you again for your understanding.
Kind regards,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Energy
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Dear Energy,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Meetings with fertiliser industry - Energy'.
By law, under all circumstances, a response should by now have been received to this request.
Yours faithfully,
Clare Carlile
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2024/6557, sent on 03/02/2025 and registered on 03/02/2025.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 24/02/2025. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Dear applicant,
We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case 2024/6557 registered on 3 February 2025.
We are currently working on your confirmatory 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 24 February 2025 due to the
complexity of the file.
Therefore, in line with Article 8(2) 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 17 March 2025.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
Secretariat-General - Access to documents
European Commission
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Dear Carlile,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/6557.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
DG ENER Access to Documents Team
Dear Ms Carlile,
Please find attached two missing documents from the previous email.
Thank you and Kind regards,
DG ENER Access to Documents Team
From: [DG ENER request email]
<[email address]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 10:20 AM
To: [FOI #15268 email]
Cc: ENER ACCES DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: Your application for access to documents - 2024/6557
Dear Ms Carlile,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/6557.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
DG ENER Access to Documents Team
Dear [email address],
Many thanks for these documents, which are noted.
At least one attachment appears to be missing - the request for a meeting which was said to be attached to the email in Document 3. Please could this be provided as soon as possible.
Given this, would it also be possible to check that no further attachments are missing? In particular, were any documents provided by Yara ahead of, during, or following the October 2023 meeting, particularly with regards to its analysis of RED III and draft National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), as mentioned in Document 3?
Yours sincerely,
Clare Carlile
Dear applicant,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/6557.
Kind regards,
Secretariat-General - Access to documents
European Commission
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Dear Ms Carlile,
Attached is the request for meeting Commissioner Simson mentioned in
Document 3.
There shouldn't be any more documents missing.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Thank you and Kind regards,
DG ENER Access to Documents Team
Dear ALVES PEREIRA Patricia,
Thanks so much for sending this.
Yours sincerely,
Clare Carlile