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EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
The Director-General
Brussels
SANTE.E.3/(2022)9267436
By email with acknowledgment of
receipt:
Julia Thibord
POLLINIS
10 Rue Saint Marc
75002 Paris
France
Email: ask+request-12234-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ms Thibord,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents 2022/6863
We refer to your request for access to European Commission documents registered on
25 November 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.
In your message you refer to a field trial of ds-RNA pesticides conducted, according to a
study published in 2020, in 2019 near Ljubljana (Slovenia) and you request access to “
all
documents (within the meaning of Regulation 1049/2001) and/or all environmental
information (within the meaning of Regulation 1367/2006), in relation to these trials and
their notification/authorisation process.”
We regret to inform you that the Commission does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil
your request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make
a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed to the Secretariat-General of the
Commission within 15 working days upon receipt of this letter. You can submit it in one of
the following ways:
by asking for a review via your portal1 account (available only for initial requests
submitted via the portal account),
or by mail:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
According to the standard operational procedure, the reply is sent by e-mail only.
We would therefore appreciate if you could explicitly confirm receipt of the e-mail
within 5 working days by replying to
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Sandra GALLINA
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https://www.ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request
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Electronically signed on 12/12/2022 08:41 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121