Meetings with Amazon

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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, note meetings which contain the following information:

- List of lobby meetings held with Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs with Amazon or its intermediaries. The list should include: date, individuals attending + organisational affiliation, the issues discussed,
- Minutes and other reports of these meetings
- All correspondence including attachements (i.e. any emails, correspondence or telephone call notes) between DG Grow (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and Amazon or any intermediaries representing its interests.
- All documents prepared for the meetings and exchanged in the course of the meetings between both parties.

Yours faithfully,

Laura Kayali
POLITICO
Rue de la Loi 62, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Dear Ms Kayali,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 07/03/2019. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 11/03/2019 under reference number GestDem 2019/1387.
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 01/04/2019. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note that this is a private website which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.
Please note also that the European Commission is not responsible for any possible processing of personal data by the private organisation running the AsktheEU.org website, through which you have channelled your request. Please refer to their privacy policy.

Yours sincerely,
DG GROW – Access to documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
DG GROW/03 – Strategic Planning and Delivery Unit

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Ms Kayali,

We refer to your e-mail dated 07/03/2019 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 11/03/2019 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 on 01/04/2019.

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 25/04/2019.

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/03 – Strategic Planning and Delivery Unit

 

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Ms Kayali,

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 07/03/2019 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 11/03/2019 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 expires today (25/04/2019).
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/03 – Strategic Planning and Delivery Unit

 

 

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Ms Kayali,

 

Please find attached the reply to your above-mentioned requests for access
to documents.

 

Please note that the original reply has been sent today by registered
letter with acknowledgment of receipt.

 

Thank you and kind regards,

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/03 – Strategic Planning and Delivery Unit

 

 

 

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

Thank you for getting back to me.
I do agree with your assessment that the personal data in the documents are not relevant to the requests and I do not need them transmitted.

However, the documents you send me only partially cover my request. You sent me communications initiated by Amazon to the DG (and thank you for that), but :
- You did not send me all the answers from the Commission, which make it hard for me to know if the meetings requested did take place.
- You did not send me reports and/or minutes of the meetings that took place
- You did not send me documents prepared for the purpose of the meetings and/or exchanged during the course of the meetings

I am therefore requesting an internal review.

Yours faithfully,

Laura Kayali

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Madam,

 

Please find attached an advance information copy of the confirmatory
decision taken on your requests for access to documents registered under
Gestdem numbers 2019/1323 and 2019/1387, adopted on 22/07/2019 in the
above-mentioned cases.

 

Please note that the Secretariat General of the European Commission will
proceed with the formal notification of the decision in the coming days.

 

This advance copy is solely sent for your information and is not the
formal notification of the confirmatory decision.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (GD)

 

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European Commission

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