Ref. Ares(2020)4240931 - 13/08/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNAL MARKET, INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND SMES
The Director-General
Brussels, 13 August 2020
GROW.01/MD
Frida Kieninger
Food & Water Action Europe
Rue d'Edmibourg 26
1050 Ixelles
Belgium
By email: ask+request-8398-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/4590
Dear Ms Kieninger,
We refer to your e-mail of 24/07/2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 27/07/2020 under the above-mentioned reference number.
We regret to inform you that the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry,
Entrepreneurship and SMEs does not hold any documents that would correspond to the
description given in your application.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil
your request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to
make a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon
receipt of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following
address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
e-signed
Kerstin Jorna
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Electronically signed on 10/08/2020 14:56 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563