EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Brussels, 28.7.2025 C(2025) 5429 final

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

Subject: Your confirmatory application for access to documents under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – EASE 2022/2678

Dear Ms Stevis-Gridneff,

I refer to your note of 9 August 2022, registered on the same day, by which you lodged a confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents² (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001′).

1. CONTEXT ON THE PRESENT DECISION

1. In your initial application of 11 May 2022, you requested access to:

“All text messages between President Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfizer, from January 1, 2021 to the present’.

2. By letter of 20 July 2021, the unit E.4 ‘Health, Education & Culture’ of the Secretariat- General of the European Commission informed you that the European Commission does not hold any documents that would correspond to the description provided in your application.

3. In your confirmatory application of 9 August 2022, you requested a review of this position. You referred to the article entitled “How Europe Sealed a Pfizer Vaccine Deal With Texts and Calls”, published on the New York Times on 28 April 2021, which reports that “for a month, Ms. von der Leyen had been exchanging texts and calls with Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfizer”.

1 Commission Decision (EU) 2024/3080 of 4 December 2024 establishing the Rules of Procedure of the Commission and amending Decision C(2000) (OJ L, 2024/3080, 5.12.2024,

http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/3080/oj).

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2 OJ L145, 31.05.2001, p. 43.

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