Correspondence with plastics industry on coprocessing
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
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 Thierry Breton, 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 Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 24/10/2023 and registered on 25/10/2023 under the case number
2023/6310.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 17/11/2023. 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
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Ms Staufenberg,
We refer to your request for access to documents registered in DG GROW on
25/10/2023 under EASE 2023/6310.
The description given in your application does not enable us to identify
concrete documents which would correspond to your request. We therefore
invite you, pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
regarding public access to documents, to provide us with more detailed
information on the documents that you seek to obtain. In particular:
please specify the names of the targeted plastics companies.
If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application,
please let us know.
In accordance with Article 2, third paragraph of the Implementing Rules to
Regulation 1049/2001, the 15 working days time limit for handling your
application will start running when we receive the requested
clarifications.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
Dear Ms Staufenberg,
This is to inform you that due the lack of response to our request for
clarification, we unfortunately cannot proceed with the handling of this
request EASE 2023/6310.
Thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
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Dear Ms Staufenberg,
We refer to your request for access to documents registered in DG GROW on
25/10/2023 under EASE 2023/6310.
The description given in your application does not enable us to identify
concrete documents which would correspond to your request. We therefore
invite you, pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
regarding public access to documents, to provide us with more detailed
information on the documents that you seek to obtain. In particular:
please specify the names of the targeted plastics companies.
If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application,
please let us know.
In accordance with Article 2, third paragraph of the Implementing Rules to
Regulation 1049/2001, the 15 working days time limit for handling your
application will start running when we receive the requested
clarifications.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
Dear Ms Staufenberg,
This is to inform you that due the lack of response to our request for
clarification, we unfortunately cannot proceed with the handling of this
request EASE 2023/6310.
Thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team