Travel expenses of ECB President
Dear European Central Bank,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am hereby requesting access to the travel expenses of ECB's President, for the period 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 inclusive.
I am looking for documents that contain, for each of the trips, the following information:
- Place of origin and destination, and the amount spent on travel or transportation;
- Exact dates and duration of the trip;
- Amount spent on accommodation;
- Amount spent on subsistence;
- Other information, such as possible miscellaneous costs.
If the travel was by air taxi and a team of people were travelling, please also provide documents with details on the other travellers (at a minimum, names and job titles).
With respect to personal information contained in any documents that you might have, I note that the only information being sought here is the name and surname of ECB's President, something which is already in the public domain. This request does not seek access to any other personal information such as bank account details. Nor am I requesting data such as the office addresses, signatures or telephone numbers of ECB staff members.
I remain at your disposition to answer any questions or clarifications you might have related to this request.
Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Luisa Izuzquiza
Access Info Europe
Dear Ms Izuzquiza,
The ECB hereby confirms receipt, on 16 January 2018, of your application
for access to ECB documents as outlined in your below e-mail.
Please note that access to ECB documents is governed by Decision
ECB/2004/3 (the unofficial consolidated version of this ECB Decision is
available at
[1]http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/legal/pdf/0...).
Pursuant to Art. 7.1 of Decision ECB/2004/3, your application shall be
handled within 20 working days from the date of its receipt. Since the
scope of your request covers a large number of documents over an extended
time period, it may not be possible to provide you with a full reply
within the foreseen deadline. Should this be the case, the ECB will
probably break down your request into smaller batches and deal with them
successively, as provided for in Article 6.1 of Decision ECB/2004/3. You
will be kept informed of the timeline for the handling of your request.
Yours sincerely,
Compliance and Governance Office
DG Secretariat
European Central Bank
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main
[2][email address]
[3][email address]
Dear Ms Izuzquiza,
We regret to inform you that due to ongoing internal deliberations, we
have to invoke Article 7.3 of [1]Decision ECB/2004/3 on public access to
ECB documents and extend the time limit provided to reply to your request
by an additional 20 working days.
Please rest assured that we are giving careful consideration to your
application and will endeavour to reply within the time limit.
Yours sincerely,
Compliance and Governance Office
DG Secretariat
European Central Bank
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main
[2][email address]
[3][email address]
___________________________________________
From: Secretariat Inbound e-mails
Sent: 19 January 2018 11:21
To: Luisa Izuzquiza
Cc: Secretariat Inbound e-mails; Access to documents
Subject: Acknowledgement of receipt - Access to documents request - Travel
expenses of ECB President
Dear Ms Izuzquiza,
The ECB hereby confirms receipt, on 16 January 2018, of your application
for access to ECB documents as outlined in your below e-mail.
Please note that access to ECB documents is governed by Decision
ECB/2004/3 (the unofficial consolidated version of this ECB Decision is
available at
[4]http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/legal/pdf/0...).
Pursuant to Art. 7.1 of Decision ECB/2004/3, your application shall be
handled within 20 working days from the date of its receipt. Since the
scope of your request covers a large number of documents over an extended
time period, it may not be possible to provide you with a full reply
within the foreseen deadline. Should this be the case, the ECB will
probably break down your request into smaller batches and deal with them
successively, as provided for in Article 6.1 of Decision ECB/2004/3. You
will be kept informed of the timeline for the handling of your request.
Yours sincerely,
Compliance and Governance Office
DG Secretariat
European Central Bank
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main
[5][email address]
[6][email address]
Dear Ms Izuzquiza,
Please find enclosed the ECB’s reply to your request of 16 January 2018
for access to documents on the above-mentioned subject.
We kindly ask you to accept our apologies for the delayed delivery.
Yours sincerely,
Compliance and Governance Office
DG Secretariat
European Central Bank
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main
[1][email address]
[2][email address]
_____________________________________________
From: Secretariat Inbound e-mails
Sent: 13 February 2018 18:16
To: Luisa Izuzquiza
Cc: Secretariat Inbound e-mails; Access to documents
Subject: Notification of delay in replying to your request for access to
ECB documents - Travel expenses of ECB President
Dear Ms Izuzquiza,
We regret to inform you that due to ongoing internal deliberations, we
have to invoke Article 7.3 of Decision ECB/2004/3 on public access to ECB
documents and extend the time limit provided to reply to your request by
an additional 20 working days.
Please rest assured that we are giving careful consideration to your
application and will endeavour to reply within the time limit.
Yours sincerely,
Compliance and Governance Office
DG Secretariat
European Central Bank
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main
[3][email address]
[4][email address]
___________________________________________
From: Secretariat Inbound e-mails
Sent: 19 January 2018 11:21
To: Luisa Izuzquiza
Cc: Secretariat Inbound e-mails; Access to documents
Subject: Acknowledgement of receipt - Access to documents request - Travel
expenses of ECB President
Dear Ms Izuzquiza,
The ECB hereby confirms receipt, on 16 January 2018, of your application
for access to ECB documents as outlined in your below e-mail.
Please note that access to ECB documents is governed by Decision
ECB/2004/3 (the unofficial consolidated version of this ECB Decision is
available at
[5]http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/legal/pdf/0... ).
Pursuant to Art. 7.1 of Decision ECB/2004/3, your application shall be
handled within 20 working days from the date of its receipt. Since the
scope of your request covers a large number of documents over an extended
time period, it may not be possible to provide you with a full reply
within the foreseen deadline. Should this be the case, the ECB will
probably break down your request into smaller batches and deal with them
successively, as provided for in Article 6.1 of Decision ECB/2004/3. You
will be kept informed of the timeline for the handling of your request.
Yours sincerely,
Compliance and Governance Office
DG Secretariat
European Central Bank
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main
[6][email address]
[7][email address]
Dear ECB,
Thank you! I hereby confirm receipt of the document.
Yours sincerely,
Luisa Izuzquiza
Access Info Europe