EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Brussels, 28.7.2025 C(2025) 5429 ultimate
Ms Stevis-Gridneff
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 11 OF THE DETAILED RULES FOR THE APPLICATION OF REGULATION (EC) No 1049/2001, ANNEXED TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE COMMISSION¹
Topic: Your confirmatory utility for entry to paperwork underneath Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – EASE 2022/2678
Pricey Ms Stevis-Gridneff,
I consult with your notice of 9 August 2022, registered on the identical day, by which you lodged a confirmatory utility in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 relating to public entry to European Parliament, Council and Fee documents² (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001′).
1. CONTEXT ON THE PRESENT DECISION
1. In your preliminary utility of 11 Could 2022, you requested entry to:
“All textual content messages between President Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Bourla, the chief govt of Pfizer, from January 1, 2021 to the current’.
2. By letter of 20 July 2021, the unit E.4 ‘Well being, Training & Tradition’ of the Secretariat- Basic of the European Fee knowledgeable you that the European Fee doesn’t maintain any paperwork that might correspond to the outline offered in your utility.
3. In your confirmatory utility of 9 August 2022, you requested a evaluation of this place. You referred to the article entitled “How Europe Sealed a Pfizer Vaccine Deal With Texts and Calls”, printed on the New York Occasions on 28 April 2021, which experiences that “for a month, Ms. von der Leyen had been exchanging texts and calls with Albert Bourla, the chief govt of Pfizer”.
1 Fee Choice (EU) 2024/3080 of 4 December 2024 establishing the Guidelines of Process of the Fee and amending Choice C(2000) (OJ L, 2024/3080, 5.12.2024,
http://information.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/3080/oj).
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2 OJ L145, 31.05.2001, p. 43.
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