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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
By registered letter with AR
Alvaro MERINO
Calle Jesús Goldero 19, Planta 1 El
Orden Mundial 28045 Madrid
Spain
Copy by email:
ask+request-8558-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 – GESTDEM 2020/5416 and 5426
Dear Mr Merino
I refer to your e-mail of 11 November 2020, registered on the same day, in which you
submitted a confirmatory application 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’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of 14
September 2020 in which you requested access to documents related to, I quote, ‘the
decision of reaching a first agreement with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to
purchase a potential vaccine against COVID-19’ as well as ‘documents reflecting the
output/conclusions or drawn up after the exploratory talks with Sanofi-GSK, Johnson &
Johnson, CureVac and Moderna’.
The initial request was assigned to the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
and subsequently to the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority. As
you did not receive an initial reply within the statutory time limits, you submitted a
confirmatory application on 11 November 2020.
1 OJ L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
The initial reply was handled in several batches. The Secretariat-General was informed
that the final batch with documents falling within the scope of your request has been sent
to you on 14 April 2022.
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.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca
Deputy Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 15/06/2022 14:15 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121