Ref. Ares(2020)5227783 - 05/10/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
SECRETARIAT-GENERAL
Directorate F – Citizens, Health, Migration & Security Union
The Director
Brussels,
SG.F4/RG
Vincent Harmsen
Drapeniersdonk 149
7326 AH Apeldoorn
The Netherlands
By email to: ask+request-8550-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents
Ref GestDem No 2020/5384
Dear Mr Harmsen,
We refer to your request for public access to documents of 11 September 2020, registered
on 12 September 2020, under the above-mentioned reference number. Your request
concerns “
all correspondence (including letters, emails and text messages), agendas,
minutes of meetings, minutes of phone calls, reports and any kind of other policy
documents, where the German laboratory LPT (Laboratory of Pharmacology and
Toxicology) was discussed/mentioned/referred to, especially, but not exclusively, in
relation to possible fraud/forgery of test data and/or mistreatment of test animals.”
Your request covers the period from 1 December 2018 to 1 September 2020.
Having searched our records, we would like to inform you that we do not hold any
document that corresponds to your request. 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 Secretariat-General, we are not in a position to follow up on
your request.
Please note that this reply concerns only documents held by the Secretariat-General.
Your requests concerning other services were registered under separate numbers and will
be handled by those services.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
William Sleath
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Electronically signed on 05/10/2020 15:13 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482