contacts with fertilizer industry on ETS and gas

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Dear DG Environment
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Regulation' (see note), I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

- All correspondence (including e-mails) between the Commissioner for Environment and/or his cabinet and/or officials and representatives of DG Environment on one hand and representatives of fertiliser producers and fertilizer interest groups on the other hand (such as Fertilizer Europe, European Fertilizers Import Association, European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform, European Crop Care Association, Nutrient Platform, YARA S.A, Association for a better European Access to Nutrients, Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes de Fertilizantes (ANFFE), Association des Producteurs Européens de Potasse (APEP), Hellenic Fertilizer Association, CEN Technical Committee 260, European Consortium of the Organic-based Fertilizer Industry (ECOFI), European Organic Fertilizers Manufacturers Association (EUROFEMA), Alliance Européenne des Engrais Phosphatés (AEEP), European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC), Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), Mosaic, The Fertiliser Institute, International Fertiliser Industry Association, International Plant Nutrition Institute) concerning the issue of the EU Emission trading System and/or natural gas import and production and/or unconventional gas exploitation (shale gas/ "fracking").

- A list of all meetings between the above mentioned actors

- minutes of meetings listed above

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.

To the extent possible, I prefer the documents in electronic format.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I 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.

Thank you very much in advance,
Ronja Heise

Note: See Regulation (EC) n. 1367/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on the application of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters to Community Institutions and bodies (here in after "Aarhus Regulation")

Dear Environment,

I mailed my postal address to the Commission (using an e-mail address provided by DG Enegy and Grow) - please refer to this for handling my request.

Best regards,

Ronja Heise

Generaldirektion Umwelt

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 17/03/2017. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 29/03/2017 under reference number GestDem 2017/1919.

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 24/04/2017. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note that this is a private website which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Yours faithfully,

ELC
DG ENVIRONMENT
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM

European Commission
DG Environment
Directorate E-Implementation & Support to Member States
Unit E4 - Compliance & Better Regulation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

Website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronja Heise [mailto:[FOI #4098 email]]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 1:28 PM
To: ENV ACCESS DOCUMENTS
Subject: access to documents request - contacts with fertilizer industry on ETS and gas

Dear DG Environment
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Regulation' (see note), I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

- All correspondence (including e-mails) between the Commissioner for Environment and/or his cabinet and/or officials and representatives of DG Environment on one hand and representatives of fertiliser producers and fertilizer interest groups on the other hand (such as Fertilizer Europe, European Fertilizers Import Association, European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform, European Crop Care Association, Nutrient Platform, YARA S.A, Association for a better European Access to Nutrients, Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes de Fertilizantes (ANFFE), Association des Producteurs Européens de Potasse (APEP), Hellenic Fertilizer Association, CEN Technical Committee 260, European Consortium of the Organic-based Fertilizer Industry (ECOFI), European Organic Fertilizers Manufacturers Association (EUROFEMA), Alliance Européenne des Engrais Phosphatés (AEEP), European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC), Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), Mosaic, The Fertiliser Institute, International Fertiliser Industry Association, International Plant Nutrition Institute) concerning the issue of the EU Emission trading System and/or natural gas import and production and/or unconventional gas exploitation (shale gas/ "fracking").

- A list of all meetings between the above mentioned actors

- minutes of meetings listed above

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.

To the extent possible, I prefer the documents in electronic format.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I 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.

Thank you very much in advance,
Ronja Heise

Note: See Regulation (EC) n. 1367/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on the application of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters to Community Institutions and bodies (here in after "Aarhus Regulation")

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request: [FOI #4098 email]

If [DG ENV request email] is the wrong address for information requests to Environment, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email [email address]

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Dear Environment,
I would like to extend the scope of my request to cover additionally:
- any communication (including e-mails) and/or meetings (including minutes and notes of these meetings) between the above mentioned actors on the topic of the 2030 climate and energy framework

- any communications (including e-mails) and/or meetings with following actors on the above mentioned topics (EUETS, unconventional gas exploitation and the 2030 climate and energy framework) with following actors:
- the international federation of industrial energy consumers
- European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)
- Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC)
- and Prospero & Partners

Both extensions apply to documents in the above mentioned time frame

However I would like to stress that 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.

Best regards,
Ronja Heise

Generaldirektion Umwelt

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Dear Madame,
 
Please find enclosed a letter to your attention on the above-mentioned
subject.
 
 
ELC
DG ENVIRONMENT
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM

 
European Commission
DG Environment
Directorate E-Implementation & Support to Member States
Unit E4 - Compliance & Better Regulation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
 
Website: [1]http://ec.europa.eu/environment
Follow us on: [2][IMG]   [3][IMG]   [4][IMG]
 
 
 
 
 

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Generaldirektion Umwelt

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 20/04/2017. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 24/04/2017 under reference number GestDem 2017/2422.

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 17/05/2017. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note that this is a private website which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Yours faithfully,

ELC
DG ENVIRONMENT
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM

European Commission
DG Environment
Directorate E-Implementation & Support to Member States
Unit E4 - Compliance & Better Regulation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

Website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronja Heise [mailto:[FOI #4098 email]]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:28 PM
To: ENV ACCESS DOCUMENTS
Subject: Re: GestDem 2017/1919 // RE: access to documents request - contacts with fertilizer industry on ETS and gas

Dear Environment,
I would like to extend the scope of my request to cover additionally:
- any communication (including e-mails) and/or meetings (including minutes and notes of these meetings) between the above mentioned actors on the topic of the 2030 climate and energy framework

- any communications (including e-mails) and/or meetings with following actors on the above mentioned topics (EUETS, unconventional gas exploitation and the 2030 climate and energy framework) with following actors:
- the international federation of industrial energy consumers
- European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)
- Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC)
- and Prospero & Partners

Both extensions apply to documents in the above mentioned time frame

However I would like to stress that 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.

Best regards,
Ronja Heise

-----Original Message-----

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 17/03/2017. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 29/03/2017 under reference number GestDem 2017/1919.

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 24/04/2017. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note that this is a private website which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Yours faithfully,

ELC
DG ENVIRONMENT
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM

European Commission
DG Environment
Directorate E-Implementation & Support to Member States
Unit E4 - Compliance & Better Regulation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

Website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment
Follow us on:   

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Generaldirektion Umwelt

Dear Mrs Heise,

 

We have prepared an answer to the two requests you made Gestdem 2017/1919
and 2017/2422. However, due to the fact that we have to notify to you our
reply by registered mail - rectius: in UK by DHL-,  DHL asks for a phone
number of the recipient where he/she was not at the address where it tries
to give the correspondence.

 

Could you be so kind to communicate to us by mail a phone number where you
can be reached and at the same time indicate your postal address, without
making a reference to another mail to other DG?

 

This mail is urgent, the deadline for reply to your applications expiring
on 17 May 2017.

 

Thanks for your cooperation

ENV ACCESS DOCUMENTS TEAM

Dear Environment,
Thank you for preparing the reply! I would prefer to receive the documents as a digital version wherever possible. But of course I am also happy to provide you with an postal address if you could provide me with an e-mail address to send it to.

Many thanks,

Ronja Heise

Generaldirektion Umwelt

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Dear Ms Heise,
 
Please find attached the reply to your Access to Documents requests
GestDem 2017/1919 and GestDem 2017/2422.
Please note that, according to your indications, the original will not be
sent by post, due to the fact that you pointed out: 'I would prefer to
receive the documents as a digital version whenever possible'.
 
 
Your sincerely,
 
ENV ACCESS DOCUMENTS TEAM