Facebook lobbying GDPR

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Dear Madam, Sir,

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

- All documents created between 25 January 2012 and 31 December 2015 – including e-mails, papers, non-papers, presentations and minutes – referring, summarising and/or citing comments of Facebook on the European Commission proposal that became the general data protection regulation; including documents related to the trilogue negotiations.

I'm looking forward to receiving your reply.

All the best,
Peter Teffer

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PS: I have noticed that EU institutions sometimes send both a digital and a paper version by registered mail of your response. Please only send paper versions of your communication if you do not intend to send a digital copy. The physical mail always reaches me later than e-mail, so paper versions are environmentally wasteful and somewhat inefficient.

AccesDocs, Europäisches Parlament

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Dear Mr Teffer,

 

The European Parliament hereby acknowledges receipt of your application
for access to documents, which was registered on 17 April 2018 under the
reference A(2018)4602.

 

All requests for public access to documents are treated in compliance with
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

 

In accordance with the above-mentioned Regulation, your application should
be handled within 15 working days upon registration of your request.

 

The European Parliament reserves the right to ask for additional
information regarding your identity in order to verify compliance with
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and the European Parliament’s implementing
measures.

 

Your attention is drawn to the fact that you have lodged your application
via the AsktheEU.org website, which is a private website not officially
related to the European Parliament. Therefore, the European Parliament
cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to
the use of this system.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

[1]LOGO_EP TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate General
for the Presidency
Directorate for
Inter-Institutional
Affairs
and Legislative
Coordination

 

[2]Public Register webpage
[3][email address]

 

 

 

References

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AccesDocs, Europäisches Parlament

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Our. Ref.: A(2018)4602

 

 

Dear Mr Teffer,

 

Your application A(2018)4602 concerns Parliament documents on the
legislative procedure 2012/0011(COD) on Personal data protection and the
processing and free movement of data (General Data Protection Regulation),
which is detailed under this link :
[1]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popup...

 

Parliament understands that he scope of your request includes the records
of contacts between Facebook representatives and the European Parliament
in the procedure leading to the adoption of the GDPR. Interactions between
interest representatives and the European Parliament are recorded in the
event they take place within the institution's parliamentary work. In this
respect, a search on the EP Public Register of documents shows that
Facebook representatives have attended official meetings of the European
Parliament in several occasions:

 

-[2]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...

-[3]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...

 

The following event has been identified as particularly relevant to your
request:

-[4]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...

-[5]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/a...

 

Facebook position:

-[6]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/a...

-[7]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/a...

 

Correspondence

 

No official correspondence falling specifically within the scope of your
request has been identified.

 

Rapporteur contacts

 

Documents held or produced by MEPs, and rapporteurs, are considered as
Parliament documents for the purpose of Regulation (EC) 1049/2001 only in
as far as they have been tabled under Parliament's rules of procedure, as
provided for by Article 116 of Parliament's Rules of Procedure. It has to
be underlined that, in that context, most meetings organized by political
groups or Members, and most contacts as well as correspondence of
political groups and individual Members with interest representatives or
third parties are not considered as Parliament documents, and they are not
included in parliamentary proceedings. Parliament does not hold documents
produced by MEPs that are relevant to your request pursuant to Article 116
of the Rules of Procedure.

 

Nevertheless in the specific case of the legislative procedure
2012/0011(COD), EP Rapporteur for the GDPR, Mr Albrecht, made his lobby
contacts public under the following links :

 

-[8]https://lobbycal.greens-efa-service.eu/a... (Introducing "Albrecht" in
the search engine)

-[9]https://www.janalbrecht.eu/2013/02/2013-...

-[10]https://derstandard.at/1360161300194/Mas...

 

The rapporteur also published articles on the GDPR Procedure:

 

-[11]https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/new...

-[12]https://www.politico.eu/article/industry...

 

A documentary was produced concerning the procedure behind the scenes:

 

-[13]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
(the film)

-[14]http://www.democracy-film.de/

 

Trilogue documents

 

As regards the trilogue negotiations in the context of the adoption of the
GDPR, please find the link to the relevant documents (including multi
columns tables) available on Parliament's public register:
[15]http://europa.eu/!ym86QK

 

General information:

Facebook registration on the Transparency Register :

-[16]http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister...

 

LIBE subject file:

-[17]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees...

 

Time line:

-[18]https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/d...

 

"Face book" and "Data protection" search results on the EP Public
Register:

-[19]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...

 

We hope this information and documents are useful to you. On the basis of
 the above, Parliament considers your application as handled and closes
the file. However, should you identify other specific documents you would
be interested in getting access to, please do not hesitate to come back to
us.

 

Kind regards,

 

 

 

[20]LOGO_EP TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate General
for the Presidency
Directorate for
Inter-Institutional
Affairs
and Legislative
Coordination

 

[21]Public Register webpage
[22][email address]

 

 

 

References

Visible links
1. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popup...
2. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...
3. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...
4. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...
5. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/a...
6. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/a...
7. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/a...
8. https://lobbycal.greens-efa-service.eu/a...
9. https://www.janalbrecht.eu/2013/02/2013-...
10. https://derstandard.at/1360161300194/Mas...
11. https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/new...
12. https://www.politico.eu/article/industry...
13. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
14. http://www.democracy-film.de/
15. http://europa.eu/!ym86QK
16. http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister...
17. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees...
18. https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/d...
19. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...
21. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegWeb/app...
22. mailto:[email address]