Ref. Ares(2023)4536780 - 30/06/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY, FINANCIAL SERVICES AND CAPITAL
MARKETS UNION
General Affairs
Policy planning and implementation, inter-institutional relations
Brussels,
Ms Elaine GIRVANS
e-mail:
ask+request-12911-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – EASE 2023/2400
Dear Ms Girvans,
We refer to your request for access to European Commission documents registered on
25 April 2023 under the above-mentioned reference number.
You requested:
“correspondence relating to, and minutes of, the following meeting: COPA COGECA,
Katherine Power, Cabinet member of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness, 15/12/21,
VIRTUAL, Subject: EU Promotion policy Please include any lobbying materials (e.g.
accompanying slides, briefings, reports etc) related to this meeting”.
We have identified one document related to this meeting with the reference ARES (2021)
7903596 – Minutes of the meeting.
A copy of the identified document is sent attached to this letter.
Please note that the minutes were drawn up for internal use under the responsibility of the
relevant member of staff. They solely reflect the authors’ interpretation of the interventions
made and do not set out any official position of the third party to which the documents
refer, which were not consulted on their content. The documents do not reflect the position
of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.
We would like to inform you that according to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001, personal data have been redacted.
Article 9(1)(b) of the Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 on the protection of natural persons with
regard to the processing of personal data 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 neither
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express any particular interest to have access to these personal data nor put forward any
arguments to establish the necessity to have the data transmitted for a specific purpose in
the public interest.
Consequently, we conclude that, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 combined with the disposal of Article 9(1)(b) of the Regulation (EU)
2018/1725, access cannot be granted to the personal data contained in the requested
documents.
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 in one of
the following ways:
by asking for a review via your portal1 account (available only for initial requests
submitted via the portal account),
or by mail:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by e-mail to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Electronically signed
Head of Unit
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https://www.ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request
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Electronically signed on 29/06/2023 16:48 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121