Correspondence with cement companies on coprocessing

Jess Staufenberg made this Informationsfreiheit request to Generaldirektion Umwelt

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Dear Environment,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

1- All correspondence (including email, SMS, private twitter and WhatsApp) since January 2020 between commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, and/or his cabinet and his cabinet's officials with representatives from the cement companies Holcim, Republic Cement, Cemex, Solid Cement Corporation (a subsidiary of Cemex Holdings), or PR companies representing any of these companies, in which "coprocessing/co-processing" "cement kilns" "plastic" "incinerators/incineration" or "waste management" were discussed.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. If the timeline is outside of your time allowance, please shorten to January 2021 if this allows you to return the request in full, or otherwise, a more recent date (please specify in your response).

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 would 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.

My postal address is;

2 Brett Close
London, UK

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

Yours faithfully,

Jess Staufenberg

ENV-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 23/10/2023 and registered on 23/10/2023 under the case number
2023/6250.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 15/11/2023. 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,

DG Environment - Access to Documents
European Commission

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ENV-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Mr Staufenberg,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 23/10/2023 under case number 2023/6250.

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 15/11/2023.

• in order to retrieve the documents requested, large files have to be
examined;

• the application concerns documents held by different Services, which
must be consulted.

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 6/12/2023.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

DG ENV

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ENV-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

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Dear Ms Staufenberg,

Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/6250.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.

Kind regards,

DG ENV