Access to documents request: 2022-09-07 meeting between Kurt Vandenberghe and Shell Companies
Dear Sir or Madam,
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on September 7 between Kurt Vandenberghe and Shell Companies.
In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.
If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 13/10/2022 and registered on 13/10/2022 under the case number
2022/5855.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 07/11/2022. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Hello,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 13/10/2022under case number 2022/5855.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 07/11/2022.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 28/11/2022.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
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Dear Mr Barnaby,
We are writing to you concerning your request for access to Commission
documents for case 2022/5855, registered on 13 October 2022.
On 31 October we extended the time-limit for replying to your confirmatory
request to 28 November 2022.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to send you the reply within this
extended time limit.
A large number of dossiers has to be reviewed for this access to documents
request.
However, we assure you that we are doing our best to send a reply to your
confirmatory request as soon as possible.
We regret this additional delay and sincerely apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
David Schäfer
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Access to documents request: 2022-09-07 meeting between Kurt Vandenberghe and Shell Companies'.
This request is now long overdue and by law, under all circumstances, should have received a reply by now.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/acces...
Yours faithfully,
Barnaby Pace
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2022/5855, sent on 20/12/2022 and registered on 20/12/2022.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 19/01/2023. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2022/5855.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,