Ref. Ares(2024)4872338 - 05/07/2024
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
CLIMATE ACTION
Directorate A – Strategy, Analysis and Planning
CLIMA.A.4 – Administration, Financial Affairs & Human Resources
Brussels
CLIMA.A.4
Harris, Rose
1 Long Lane, London
United Kingdom
Advanced copy by email
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents EASE 2024/3278
Dear Ms Harris,
We refer to your request for European Commission documents registered on 19 June 2024
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: between FuelsEurope and Kurt Vandenberghe on
12/10/2023 regarding 'Energy Transition’”.
Your application concerns the following documents:
Title
Registration
Reference
1. Invitation email_DG Vandenberghe with
17/07/2023
Ares(2023)4959454
European Fuel Manufacturers
Association_2023_Redacted
2. Briefing_DG Vandenberghe with Fuels
22/10/2023
Ares(2023)7186176
Europe_12.10.2023_Redacted
Please note that, as the same request has been also submitted to the Secretariat-General (1),
and the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (2) the present reply relates only to
the documents held by the Directorate-General for Climate Action. You will receive the reply
from the Secretariat-General and the Directorate-General for Energy in due course.
With regard to all 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
(1) EASE 2024/3277: Secretariat-General (SG)
(2) EASE 2024/3279: Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE)
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
Office: BRE2 14/DCS – Tel. direct line +32 229-68752
xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
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.
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:
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,
Yiannos Asimakis
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 04/07/2024 17:47 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
