Code of Conduct Group on business taxation - comptes-rendus of meetings

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Dear Taxation and Customs Union,

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

Any informal notes, minutes or other written records from Commission representatives attending meetings of the Code of Conduct group on business taxation since its coming into existence (since 9.3.1998).

Yours faithfully,

Sven Giegold

Taxation and Customs Union

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your request for access to documents.

Note that your postal address is required for registering and handling your request in line with the procedural requirements. Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience. Pending your reply, we reserve the right to refuse the registration of your request.
You may, of course, use directly the electronic form for entering your request:

http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/...

Best regards,

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Dear Taxation and Customs Union,

please find below my postal address:

Sven Giegold
ASP 05F163
Rue Wiertz 60
1047 Brussels

Yours faithfully,

Sven Giegold

Taxation and Customs Union

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Dear Sir,

Thank you for your requests dated 18/09/2015. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your applications for access to documents, which were registered on 18/09/2015 under reference number GestDem 2015/4940.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your applications will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on 09/10/2015. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your applications via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note that this is a private website which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Yours faithfully,

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Dear Sir,

We refer to your request dated 18/09/2015 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered on 18/09/2015 under the above mentioned reference number.

In view of the very broad scope of your request, we are assessing how we can deal with it.

Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 30/10/2015.

We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

Yours faithfully,

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Dear Mr Giegold,

We thank you for your requests.

Please find herewith our reply. Due to the length of the annexes we will send our reply in different e-mails.

Best regards,

Sabine Verleysen
European Commission
DG TAXUD – R2
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Dear Taxation and Customs Union,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Taxation and Customs Union's handling of my FOI request 'Code of Conduct Group on business taxation - comptes-rendus of meetings'.

On the 18th of September, two months ago, I requested, under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, the following documents:

Any informal notes, minutes or other written records from Commission representatives attending meetings of the Code of Conduct group on business taxation since its coming into existence (since 9.3.1998).

In your answer dating from 29th of October, you only provided room documents that were already disclosed further to various, previous and specific requests for access to documents originating from the Commission relating to the Code of Conduct group. In my request, I had asked specifically for informal notes, minutes or other written records from meetings of the Code of Conduct group on business taxation. As you did not provide any meeting minutes nor answer my request, I herewith submit a confirmatory application.

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

Yours faithfully,

Sven Giegold

ASP 05F163
Rue Wiertz 60
1047 Brussels

Taxation and Customs Union

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Dear Mr Giegold,
 
We refer to your request regarding the informal reports of meetings of the
Code of Conduct group. This request  concerns a large number of documents
(63) originating from the Commission,  over a very large number of years.
It is therefore not possible, due the workload in Commission services, to
handle this request in the normal timeframe set up by Article 7 of
Regulation  1049/2001 on access to documents. Moreover, and given that the
informal minutes drafted by Commission officials contain mainly
information from the national authorities who participated to the
meetings, we have to consult them. The consultation is taking place and
national authorities will be have until 8 January 2016 to provide their
reply.
 
In the meantime and in accordance with Article 6 (3) of Regulation
1049/2001 which provides that "in the event of an application relating to
a very long document or to very large number of documents, the institution
concerned may confer with the applicant informally, with a view to finding
a fair solution".
We are writing to you with a view to reaching a fair solution as regards
the timing of the reply  to your request.
 
In view of the consultation of the Member States which will imply the
final assessment of the documents in view of the comments received, the
redaction of those parts of the documents to which exceptions of
Regulation 1049/2001 apply, the drafting and approval of the reply, the
preparation of the reply and of the documents to be dispatched, we propose
to send you a reply between 25 and 29 January 2016.
 
We trust that you will understand the constraints linked to the handling
of  these documents and that you will agree with this solution.
 
 
Best regards,
 
VIRGINIE GUENNELON
Legal officer
 
European Commission
Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union
Inter-Institutional Relations, coordination, communication and strategic
planning.

J-79, 3/233
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2 29 58408
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