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Dear Energy,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

All documents related to the WindEurope and Azerbaijan COP29 event in Brussels on 2 July, at which Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director-General, was a speaker.

This includes but is not limited to:

- All correspondence between the Deputy Director General and/or their staff and the organisers of the event or other participants (EU Commission, industry, Azerbaijan government officials);

- All preparatory documents that were provided to the Deputy Director General and/or their staff before the event, including an agenda, speaker list, background note, a briefing, his speech. This includes documents provided by the event organisers and EU Commission staff;

- All follow-up documents, including minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, read-outs, presentations, action points and any other correspondence between the Deputy Director General and/or their staff and the organisers of the event, or other participants.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

Yours faithfully,

Pascoe Sabido
Corporate Europe Observatory
Mundo Matonge
26 Rue d'Edimbourg
Bruxelles 1050
Belgium

sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 11/09/2024 and registered on 11/09/2024 under the case number
2024/4736.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 02/10/2024. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.

To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.

Yours faithfully,

Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission

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ENER-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Mr Sabido,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 11/09/2024 under case number 2024/4736.

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 02/10/2024.

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 23/10/2024.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

DG ENER Access to Documents Team

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Dear Energy,

The deadline set for responding to this request has been missed and disclosure of the documents is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, DG ENER should have responded.

I realise having to coordinate with different services requires extra effort and capacity, so appreciate the time put into it, but can you please update me on the status of this request, and provide a date when the documents will be released.

If any documents have already been identified, please release them on a rolling basis rather than waiting for all documents to be readied for disclosure.

Yours faithfully,

Pascoe Sabido

Sg-Acc-Doc@ec.europa.eu, Energy

Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
 
 
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
 
 
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Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
 
 

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ENER-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

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Dear Mr SBIDO,

Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/4736.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.

Kind regards,

ENER ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS

Dear Energy,

Thank you for the initial disclosure of documents. However, I have some concerns regarding the limited nature of the disclosure.

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 'WindEurope and Azerbaijan COP29 Brussels event'.

The document "COP29 azeri event Redacted", which is a summary of the public event in question, has all parts not attributed to the Commission redacted. Given that the event was public, with press in attendance, and those in the audience sharing content on social media, there should be no reason to exclude the summaries made of non-Commission staff interventions.

The reason given was to protect privacy, and therefore "Names, initials, and/or personally identifying information" was redacted. Yet as stated above, the names of the individuals speaking is already disclosed in the other documents made available by yourselves, as well as in the press release and event information. What was said was not in a private meeting behind closed doors but a public meeting. Furthermore, disclosure is in the public interest, given that these were events related to COP29 and the future of the global climate, which is eminently important to the public. Knowing what was said by other panelists in the presence of the EU public officials (with an intention of influencing EU positioning) is also in the public interest.

To add further argument, the very reason this even happened was because the EU proposed an MOU to be signed between WindEurope and Azerbaijan and invited its CEO Giles Dickson to Baku for the 2nd Green Energy Ministerial on the sidelines of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council in March this year. This was done in the name of European public interest and the energy transition, which Europe's citizens are particularly concerned with. What worries many is also how Azerbaijan is using renewable energy and hydrogen deployment to whitewash the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding region. Therefore what the wind and hydrogen lobby are saying in an event with Azerbaijan also has an overriding public interest.

I'm requesting that the document be released unredacted.

A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/wind...

Yours faithfully,

Pascoe Sabido

sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2024/4736, sent on 13/12/2024 and registered on 13/12/2024.

We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 16/01/2025. 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

Sg-Acc-Doc@ec.europa.eu, Energy

1 Attachment

Dear Sir,

 

Please find attached a letter concerning your confirmatory request
registered under reference 2024/4736.

 

Kind regards,

Access to documents team – cr
SG.C.1
Transparency

 

sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

Dear applicant,

We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case EASE 2024/4736 registered on 13 December
2024.

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 16 January 2025.

A new deadline is needed as the consultations regarding your file are
still ongoing.

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 6 February 2025.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

SG.C.1 Access to Documents Team

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