Ref. Ares(2022)2758452 - 08/04/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
Ms Madeline O’Brian
Copy by email: ask+request-10734-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory applications for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2022/1028 and
2022/1050
Dear Ms O’Brian,
I refer to your e-mails of 6 April 2022, registered on 7 April 2022, by which you
submitted confirmatory applications in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
On 17 February 2022 you submitted two initial requests. On 18 February 2022, the
Commission asked you to provide your postal address and explained that the request
cannot be registered before it is provided. On 23 February 2022 the Commission sent a
reminder and on 1 March 2022 it explained in greater detail why the postal address is
needed from the procedural point of view.
Please note that the Commission did not formally register your two initial requests and
did not send the acknowledgment of receipt given that you did not provide your postal
address. It is not possible to submit a confirmatory request without first having submitted
the initial request and received the acknowledgment of receipt. This would result in the
circumvention of the two-step administrative procedure established by the Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001, by which a confirmatory request is a review of the reply provided at
the initial stage.
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your two confirmatory
applications. You may submit a new initial request2 and provide your postal address.
1 OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
2 Electronic form available her
e European Commission - Register of Commission documents (europa.eu)
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
We would also like to inform you that the Commission is currently in the last phases of
developing a new online portal which will allow applicants to submit requests for access
to documents without providing their postal address, given that the new portal will allow
electronic transmission and notification of Commission replies. The new portal is
expected to go live by mid 2022.3
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca
Deputy Head of Unit
3 Once
it
goes
live,
the
new
portal
will
be
available
on
the
following
link
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request . It will replace the above-mentioned electronic
form.
2
Electronically signed on 08/04/2022 11:00 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121