Documents related to meetings about chemicals regulation with trade bodies and companies
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:
a) details of discussions, meetings (including virtual online meetings and discussions) and decisions about existing or proposed EU legislation or guidance related to chemicals, including deadlines for implementation, consultations or information reporting that you have held since March 1st 2020.
I would prefer for this information to be sent to me
in machine-readable electronic format, to the email address provided below.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely
Geraint Roberts
Dear Mr Roberts,
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GROW Access to documents team
European Commission
GROW 01 – Coordination and Planning
DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
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Yours faithfully,
Geraint Roberts
Dear Mr Roberts,
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Dear Mr Roberts,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 05/05/2020
under the above-mentioned reference number.
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.
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
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European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning
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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
The documents are:
emails between DG GROW officials and those of companies or trade bodies;
meeting agendas,
meeting minutes,
Commission draft papers for internal or external discussions
Any other written documents shared between DG GROW and business stakeholders that relate to chemicals policy
Yours faithfully,
Geraint Roberts
Dear Mr Roberts,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 05/05/2020
under the above-mentioned reference number.
Many thanks for your answer to our clarification request. In addition, we
would like to kindly ask you if you can specify the chemicals policy that
you are interested in.
Indeed, the request is a wide scope and 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.
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,
GROW Access to documents team
European Commission
GROW 01 – Coordination and Planning
DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
The areas of chemical policy and regulation I am interested in are:
REACH Regulation
CLP Regulation
Biocidal products Regulation
Chemicals strategy for sustainability
zero pollution strategy for water, air and soil
Yours faithfully,
Geraint Roberts
Dear Mr Geraint,
We come back to your access to documents request (attached) registered
under Gestdem 2020/2550.
After further exchange with our services with the request to specify the
scope of your request you clarified that:
“The documents are:
emails between DG GROW officials and those of companies or trade bodies;
meeting agendas, meeting minutes, Commission draft papers for internal or
external discussions Any other written documents shared between DG GROW
and business stakeholders that relate to chemicals policy”
and further:
“The areas of chemical policy and regulation I am interested in are:
REACH Regulation
CLP Regulation
Biocidal products Regulation
Chemicals strategy for sustainability
zero pollution strategy for water, air and soil”
Whilst your first clarification is clear, we would ask you to further
clarify your particular interests on the different topics listed.
For example, could you please mention whether you are interested in
documents concerning the harmonised classification process under CLP or
latest discussions on the Poison Centers Annex (Annex VIII to CLP)?
Best regards,
European Commission
DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Unit GROW.D.2 – Chemicals and Plastics Industries
Dear Mr Geraint,
We come back to your access to documents request (attached) registered
under Gestdem 2020/2550.
After further exchange with our services with the request to specify the
scope of your request you clarified that:
“The documents are:
emails between DG GROW officials and those of companies or trade bodies;
meeting agendas, meeting minutes, Commission draft papers for internal or
external discussions Any other written documents shared between DG GROW
and business stakeholders that relate to chemicals policy”
and further:
“The areas of chemical policy and regulation I am interested in are:
REACH Regulation
CLP Regulation
Biocidal products Regulation
Chemicals strategy for sustainability
zero pollution strategy for water, air and soil”
Whilst your first clarification is clear, we would ask you to further
clarify your particular interests on the different topics listed.
For example, could you please mention whether you are interested in
documents concerning the harmonised classification process under CLP or
latest discussions on the Poison Centers Annex (Annex VIII to CLP)?
Best regards,
European Commission
DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Unit GROW.D.2 – Chemicals and Plastics Industries
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
the areas that I am interested in are as follows
- any discussions, in relation to the ongoing implementation of any of these regulations, or the ongoing development of these policies, related to extending the timetable or compliance periods, including for consultations;
- any discussions, in relation to any of these regulations, about changing the requirements for information reporting, notifications, registrations, approvals, testing proposals or responses to evaluation decisions
- any comments on the content of the draft paper on the chemicals strategy for sustainability dated March 3rd, or comments on any subsequent drafts
Yours faithfully,
Geraint Roberts
Dear Mr Roberts,
We refer to your e-mail dated 01/05/2020 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 05/05/2020 under the above mentioned
reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, we will not be in a
position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit of 15 working days, which expires today (05/06/2020).
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 26/06/2020.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning
Dear Mr Roberts,
We refer to your e-mail dated 01/05/2020 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 05/05/2020 under the above mentioned
reference number.
The reply to your request could not be finalised today. Therefore, we are
not in a position to complete the handling of your application within the
extended time limit of 15 working days, which expired on 26/06/2020.
Please be reassured that we are doing our best to be able to send you the
reply as soon as possible.
We apologise for this additional delay and for any inconvenience this may
cause.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning
Please find attached document Ares(2020)3458894 from ve_grow.access
documents (GROW.01) dated 01/07/2020.
Veuillez trouver ci-joint le document Ares(2020)3458894 de ve_grow.access
documents (GROW.01) daté du 01/07/2020.
European Commission
DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Unit GROW.D.2 – Chemicals and Plastics Industries
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
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