Correspondence with plastics industry on coprocessing
Dear Climate Action,
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 2021 between commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and/or former commissioner Frans Timmermans, and/or his cabinet and his cabinet's officials with any plastics company or plastics industry representatives, or their PR representatives, in which "coprocessing/co-processing" "cement kilns" "plastic credits" "plastics offsetting" or "waste to energy" 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 2022 if this allows you to return the request in full, or otherwise, a more recent date (please specify in your response).
If the nature of the enquiry is too broad, I would appreciate if you could let me know immediately. I am assuming the specificity of the search terms allows the enquiry to be narrow enough in scope.
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
Dear Ms Staufenberg,
Thank you for your message.
Due to a heavy and unexpected workload, we are doing our utmost best to handle the requests for access to documents in a due and timely manner.
Please accept our deepest apologies for the delay in handling your request.
We are going to accelerate the process to meet your needs.
Thank you for your patience while we deliver to you our best reply.
Best regards,
CLIMA Access to documents Team