Ref. Ares(2016)5463746 - 20/09/2016
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate E - Policy Co-ordination II
The Director
Brussels,
SF/WS
Mr. V. Harmsen
Rue Auguste Lambiotte 39-1
1030 Schaerbeek
Belgium
Per
email:
ask+request-3193-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Sir,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2016/4449
We refer to your e-mail dated 05/08/2016 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 08/08/2016 under the above mentioned reference number.
You request the following documents: "
All correspondence (including emails), agendas,
minutes of meetings or any other reports of such meetings where the (drafting of the)
scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties was/were
(explicitly or implicitly) discussed/mentioned between officials of Secretariat General
and officials/representatives of the following third parties: US Environmental Protection
Agency, US Department of Agriculture, Office of the US Trade Representative, United
States Mission to the European Union, US Mission to the WTO, or the US government in
general (between March 2016 and July 2016). When 'officials' are mentioned in this
request this includes the Commission President and his Cabinet members."
We regret to inform you that no documents were found that would correspond to the
description given in your application.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation 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 have been identified, the Commission is not in a position
to handle your request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation 1049/2001, you are entitled to make a
confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position. Such a
confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt of this
letter to the Secretary-General of the Commission at the following address: European
Commission, Secretary-General, Transparency unit SG-B-4, BERL 5/282, B-1049 Brussels;
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx.
Yours sincerely,
James Morrison
European Commission, 1049 Brussels, Belgium - Tel. +32 22991111.
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/secretariat_general/