Ref. Ares(2023)3563404 - 23/05/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
SG.C.1
Marie-Stella Papeghin
Rue Bouvier 20,
75011 – Paris,
France
Par email only:
ask+request-12098-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 – EASE 2022/6838
Dear Ms Papeghin,
I am writing in reference to your confirmatory application registered on 15 February 2023,
submitted in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public
access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents 1 (hereafter 'Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001').
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of 4
November 2022, registered on 24 November 2022, in which you requested access to:
‘On the topic of flame retardants (retardateurs de flamme), all correspondence
(including emails), the list of meetings with detailed minutes and any other
reports of such meetings between DG Environment officials and representatives of
the following organisations for the time period January 2019-Now:
- Association des brûlés de France (ABF)
- Groupement Technique Français contre l’Incendie (GTFI)
- European Burns Association (EBA)
1 OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
- European Fire Safety Alliance
- Polystyrène Loop Coöperatief UA
- EUMEPS
- European Flame Retardants Association (EFRA)
- European Brominated Flame Retardant Industry Panel (EBFRIP)
- Flame Retardants Europe
- Phosphorus, Inorganic and Nitrogen Flame Retardants Association (PINFA)
- Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF)
- LANXESS AG
- Albemarle Europe
- CEFIC
- EBCA (European Burn Casualties Association)
- Fire safety platform
- Burson-Marsteller
- Chemtura
- ICL industrial products
- Tosoh corporation
- Total Petrochemical.’
The initial request was assigned to the Directorate-General for Environment. As you did not
receive an initial reply within the statutory time limits, you submitted a confirmatory
application on 15 February 2023.
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on 12 May 2023 (under
reference number
Ares(2023)3343004).
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory application
related to the lack of initial reply.
You remain entitled to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(2)
of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, should you wish to request a review of the initial reply of
12 May 2023.
Yours sincerely,
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Mariusz Daca
Deputy Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 22/05/2023 16:38 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121