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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
By registered letter with AR
Carlotta Indiano
Investigative Reporting Project
Italy
Viale Giulio Cesare, 92
00192 Roma
Italy
Copy by email: ask+request-10387-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – GESTDEM 2021/8084
Dear Ms Indiano,
I refer to your e-mail of 9 February 2022, registered on the same day, in which you
submit a confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of
13 December 2021 in which you requested, I quote: ‘documents which contain the
following information:
For the period between 2019 to date:
1. a list of all meetings and/or calls between the Directorate-General for Climate Action
and the GD4S lobby group, including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, during
which projects on synthetic fuels and/or projects on hydrogen were discussed.
The list should include: date, individuals attending and organisational affiliation, as well
as the issues discussed; all minutes and other reports of these meetings and/or calls; all
documents prepared for the purpose of the meetings issued both in preparation and after
the meetings took place; all correspondence, including attachments (i.e. any emails, mail
correspondence or telephone call notes) between the Directorate-General for Climate
1 OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
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Action including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, and GD4S lobby group
discussing “synthetic fuel” and/or “hydrogen ”.
2. all documents sent by the GD4S lobby group to the DG Climate Action related to
their synthetic fuel projects and/or their hydrogen projects.’
The initial request was assigned to the Directorate-General for Climate Action. As you
did not receive an initial reply within the statutory time limits, you submitted a
confirmatory application on 9 February 2022.
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on 28 February 2022. In its
reply, the Directorate-General for Climate Action granted you partial access to the
documents identified as falling into the scope of your request, subject to redactions based
on the exception laid down in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
concerning the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual.
Against this background, the European Commission’s Secretariat-General will close your
confirmatory application related to the lack of initial reply.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the initial
reply of 28 February 2022.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca
Deputy Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 28/02/2022 14:39 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121