Communications on the situation of Mar Menor
Dear Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA),
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001 and the Aarhus Directive 2003/4/EC, I am requesting documents, e-mails, letters, memos (including all attachments), reports, evaluations, briefings and analysis of any kind which contain the following information:
1. All type of interactions between the regional government of Murcia and the EU commission (including all competent DGs and the Secretariat General) over the state of the lagoon Mar Menor since 2016.
2. All type of communications about Mar Menor between the cabinet of commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius and the regional government of Murcia, other competent regional/local authorities, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and the national Ministry for Ecological Transition.
3. All type of communications and data on EU subsidies/grants/and other forms of funding given directly to Spain or the regional government of Murcia since 2016 targeting the Mar Menor lagoon .
4. All responses of the Spanish government to the Letter of Formal Notice to Spain issued by the EU Commission in November 2018 and to the Reasoned Opinion issued in June 2020 regarding the ongoing infringement procedure of the Nitrates Directive.
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I would prefer to receive the information to my email.
Yours faithfully,
Elena Sánchez Nicolás
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your e-mail of 3 December 2021. We hereby acknowledge
receipt of your application for access to documents, which has been
reattributed to DG ENVIRONMENT from DG CLIMA. Your request was registered
on 10 December 2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/8042.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on 11
January 2022. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be
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Yours faithfully,
DG ENVIRONMENT
Access to Documents Team
Dear Madam,
Please note that your request registered under Gestdem reference 2021/8042
has been split as follows:
Gestdem reference 2021/8054: DG MARE
Gestdem reference 2021/8042: DG ENV
Each of the above mentioned services will send you a separate reply under
its own respective Gestdem reference.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (GD)
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Dear Ms Sánchez Nicolás,
Please find attached a letter addressed to you.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENVIRONMENT
Directorate E – Implementation & Support to Member States
ENV.E.2 - Environmental Implementation
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Dear Ms Sánchez Nicolás
I refer to your e-mail of 3 December 2021 whereby you made a request for
access to documents under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, registered under
the reference GESTDEM 2021/8042.
By e-mail dated 15 December 2021 (ref. Ares (2021)7755019), you were
informed by the Secretariat General of the Commission that your request
has been split in two:
a) GESTDEM reference 2021/8054, attributed to DG MARE, on the first three
requests of your e-mail
b) GESTDEM reference 2021/8042, attributed to DG ENV, on the fourth
request of your e-mail.
You received the reply to your fourth request (GESTDEM reference number
2021/8042) on 10 January under reference number Ares(2022)144579.
Please note that as regards GESTDEM 2021/8054, DG ENV has now taken over
responsibility for the reply to these first three requests of your e-mail.
Your application is currently being handled. However, we are not in a
position to complete its handling within the time limit of 15 working
days, which expires on 11 January 2022. An extended time limit is needed
as the application concerns documents held by different services, which
must be consulted.
Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 1 February 2022.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Best regards
Access to Documents Team
DG ENVIRONMENT
Dear Ms Sánchez Nicolás,
We kindly ask you to confirm receipt of the present e-mail by replying to
[1][email address].
We apologies for this inconvenient, but we need a written acknowledgment
or receipt for administrative purposes.
Many thanks for your understanding.
Kind regards,
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENVIRONMENT
Directorate E – Implementation & Support to Member States
ENV.E.2 - Environmental Implementation
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Dear Ms Sánchez Nicolás,
Please find attached a letter addressed to you.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENVIRONMENT
Directorate E – Implementation & Support to Member States
ENV.E.2 - Environmental Implementation
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Dear Madam,
Please find attached a reply to your request for access to documents,
registered under reference GESTDEM 2021/8054.
Please note that this letter is sent by email only, no hard copy will be
mailed.
We would appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present e-mail by
replying to [1][email address].
Kind regards,
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENVIRONMENT
Directorate E – Implementation & Support to Member States
ENV.E.2 - Environmental Implementation
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