Lobby meetings/correspondence on Vaccine Passports
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
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:
For the period between 1 November 2020 to date:
- a list of all lobby and industry meetings and/or calls held by DG CONNECT, including any Cabinet Members and/or official, during which plans/proposals/offers about Covid-19 Vaccine Passports and/or the Digital Green Certificate were discussed.
The list should include: date, individuals attending and organisational affiliation, as well as the issues discussed;
- all minutes and other reports of these meetings and/or calls;
- all documents prepared for the purpose of the meetings issued both in preparation and after the meetings took place.
- all correspondence, including attachments (i.e. any emails, mail correspondence, telephone call notes, presentations) between DG CONNECT, including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, and any lobby group and/or industry representative discussing plans/proposals/offers about Covid-19 Vaccine Passports and/or the Digital Green Certificate;
To the extent possible, I prefer the documents in electronic format.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, I kindly request to explain the denial or all redactions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents, in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6.
Please confirm receipt of this application. I look forward to receiving your reply within 15 business days, as established by the regulation.
Yours faithfully,
Matteo Civillini
Via Cordusio, 4 Milano (Italy)
C/o Sala Stampa Nazionale
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[5]Ares(2021)2559851 - Your access to documents request - Lobby
meetings/correspondence on Vaccine Passports - Re. GESTDEM 2021/2361
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Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 15 April 2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on
15/04/2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/2361.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days.
The time limit will expire on 6 May 2021. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.
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ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
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[5]Your application for access to documents RefGestDem 2021/2361 -
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Dear Mr Civillini,
We refer to your e-mail of 15 April 2021 wherein you make a request for
access to documents pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public
access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents
(‘Regulation 1049/2001’), registered on the same day under the
above-mentioned reference number.
Your application reads as follows:
‘’Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
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:
For the period between 1 November 2020 to date:?
- a list of all lobby and industry meetings and/or calls held by DG
CONNECT, including any Cabinet Members and/or official, during which
plans/proposals/offers about Covid-19 Vaccine Passports and/or the Digital
Green Certificate were discussed.?The list should include: date,
individuals attending and organisational affiliation, as well as the
issues discussed;??
- all minutes and other reports of these meetings and/or calls;
??- all documents prepared for the purpose of the meetings issued both in
preparation and after the
meetings took place.?
- all correspondence, including attachments (i.e. any emails, mail
correspondence, telephone call notes, presentations) between DG CONNECT,
including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, and any lobby group and/or
industry representative discussing plans/proposals/offers about Covid-19
Vaccine
Passports and/or the Digital Green Certificate;
To the extent possible, I prefer the documents in electronic
format.?Should my request be denied wholly or partially, I kindly request
to explain the denial or all redactions referring to specific exemptions
in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents,
in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. Please confirm
receipt of this application. I look forward to receiving your reply within
15 business days, as established by the regulation.(…)’’
Your application concerns a large number of documents. At this stage,
according to our estimate ca 30 to 40 documents would fall within the
scope of your request.
Due to the scope of your request, the work needed to deal with your
application would cover the following steps:
- Individual analysis of the documents and establishment of the final and
complete list of the documents falling under the scope of your request,
- Scanning of the documents which are not in pdf format,
- Preliminary individual assessment of the content of the documents in
light of the exceptions contained in Article 4 of Regulation 1049/2001,
- For many of the documents, third party consultations under Article 4(4)
and/or 4(5) of Regulation 1049/2001,
- Final assessment of the documents in light of the comments received,
- Redaction of those parts of the documents to which one or several
exceptions apply,
- Preparation and finalisation of the reply for the request,
- Preparation of the reply and the documents for dispatch.
It follows from the above that the work needed for the treatment of your
request cannot expected to be completed within the normal time limit set
out in Article 7 of Regulation 1049/2001.
Article 6(3) of the Regulation 1049/2001 provides that, in the event of an
application relating to a very long or a very large number of documents,
the institution concerned may confer with the applicant informally with a
view to finding a fair solution. In accordance with the case law of the
Union Courts, the proposal for a fair solution aims to balance the
interest of the applicant against the workload resulting from the
processing of the application in order to safeguard the interests of good
administration (Judgments of 6 December 2001, Council v Hautala, Case C
353/99 P, EU:C:2001: 661, para. 30, and of 2 October 2014, Strack v
Commission, Case C 127/13 P, EU:C:2014:2250, para.27). Such solution can
only concern the content or the number of documents applied for, not the
deadline for replying (Judgment of the Court of Justice of 2 October 2014
in case C- 127/13, Guido Strack v Commission, paragraphs 26-28). This
means that the scope of the request must be reduced in a way that would
enable its treatment within the extended deadline of 15 + 15 working days.
Taking this into account and based on the above-mentioned provision, we
would kindly ask you to specify the objective of your request, your
specific interest in the requested documents and whether you could narrow
down the scope of your request, so as to reduce it to a more manageable
amount of documents.
In order to help you narrow down your wide scope request please note that
the following documents per requested category of documents have been
identified.
1. Minutes and other reports of the meetings and/or calls: 4 documents
2. Documents prepared for the purpose of the meetings issued both in
preparation and after the meetings took place: 1 document
3. Correspondence: Approximately ca 25-30 correspondences (plus
attachments also falling under the scope of the request) with industry
representatives and 1 correspondence with a regional authority.
Taking into account the other ‘access to documents’ requests being handled
within DG CONNECT at the same time, the global workload of the concerned
staff during the same period, the human resources available and the need
to safeguard good administration, we consider that in the remaining
timeframe we would be able to deal with a maximum of 15 documents.
In order to enable us to respect the time limits of Regulation 1049/2001,
we would ask you for a swift response to our proposal for a fair solution.
Please respond within three working days, i.e. by 7 May 2021 eob, at the
latest.
Please send your response by email to the following address:
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In the absence of a reply within three working days, we will unilaterally
restrict the scope of your application to those parts that can be dealt
with within the extended deadline of 30 working days counting from the
date of registration of your application.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
The DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team
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European Commission
DG Connect – ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
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[5]Holding reply-Your application for access to documents RefGestDem
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Dear Mr Civillini,
We refer to your e-mail of 15 April 2021 wherein you make a request for
access to documents, registered on the same day 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.
An extended time limit is needed as your application concerns a large
number of documents.
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 1 June 2021.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team
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European Commission
DG Connect – ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
BU25 – Avenue de Beaulieu 25
B-1160 Brussels/Belgium
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[5]2nd Holding reply - Your application for access to documents RefGestDem
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Dear Mr Civillini,
We refer to your e-mail of 15 April 2021 wherein you make a request for
access to documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned
reference number. We also refer to our holding reply sent to you on 6 May
2021 (our reference Ares(2021)3036470).
Your application is currently being handled. However, we have not been in
a position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit, which expires today.
Please be assured that the reply is about to come.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team
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European Commission
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Dear ve_cnect.public_access_to_documents (CNECT),
The response to this request is long overdue.
Please comply with the law and provide a reply as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Matteo Civillini
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Lobby meetings/correspondence on Vaccine Passports'.
No reply to my request despite multiple follow up messages asking to provide a timely response.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/lobb...
Yours faithfully,
Matteo Civillini
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[5]RE: Internal review of access to documents request - Lobby
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Ares(2021)3780055
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Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email dated 9 June 2021 by which you request, pursuant
to Regulation No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament,
Council and Commission documents, a review of the position taken by DG
CNECT in reply to your initial application GESTDEM 2021/2361.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your confirmatory application for access
to documents which was registered on 9 June 2021 (Ares(2021)3779876).
Your application will be handled within 15 working days (30/06/2021). In
case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due
course.
Please be informed that the answer to your confirmatory application is a
formal Commission decision that will be notified to you by express
delivery. Thank you for providing your contact phone number, so that the
external delivery service can contact you in case of absence.
Please note that the Commission will not use your phone number for any
other purpose than for informing the delivery service, and that it will
delete it immediately thereafter.
Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (GD)
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SG C.1
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Advance copy by e-mail and registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt
Dear Mr Civillini,
Please find attached document [1]Ares(2021)4509317 regarding "Your request
for access to documents - GestDem 2021/2361" sent by Mr Roberto Viola,
General Director of DG CONNECT on 12/07/2021.
Best regards,
European Commission
DG CONNECT — ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
Avenue de Beaulieu, 25
B-1160 Brussels/Belgium
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Dear Mr Civillini,
Please find enclosed the advance copy of a letter concerning your
confirmatory request for access to documents GESTDEM 2021/2361.
The paper copy of the letter has been sent you by certified post with
acknowledgement of receipt.
Best regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (LC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG C.1 – Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents
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