Ref. Ares(2019)1046546 - 20/02/2019
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
REGIONAL AND URBAN POLICY
Audit
Coordination, relations with the Court of Auditors and OLAF
The Head of Unit
Brussels,
REGIO.C1/GFP/ms/(2019)1184643
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2019/0589
Dear Sir,
We refer to your e-mail dated 29/01/2019 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 31/01/2019 under the above mentioned reference number.
Your request of “
The documentation provided by the Hungarian authorities based on
which reimbursements for structural funds, previously suspended, were restarted in
November-December 2018” does not allow to ascertain to which documents and structural
funds you are referring to.1.
Please note that in case of a request of document(s) containing parts originating from a
Member State, according to Article 4(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the Commission
shall consult the Member State authorities in order to know whether they oppose disclosure
of the concerned documents or parts of them.
The description given in your application does not enable us to identify concrete documents
which would correspond to your request and to start the compulsory consultation of the
Member State.
We therefore invite you, pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
regarding public access to documents, to provide us with more detailed information on the
documents which you seek to obtain, such as Operational Programme(s) references,
structural fund(s) concerned, dates or periods during which the documents would have been
produced, persons or bodies who drafted the document(s) etc…
1 Structural and investment funds are European regional development fund (ERDF), European social fund (ESF), Cohesion fund (CF),
European agricultural fund for rural development (EAFRD) and European maritime and fisheries fund (EMFF).
Mr László Szabó
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Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: BU 29 2/20 - Tel. direct line +32 229-69590
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/
In accordance with Article 2, third paragraph of the Implementing Rules to Regulation
1049/20012, the 15 working days time limit for handling your application will start running
when we receive the requested clarifications.
If y
ou need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you can contact us by
email to
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Lothar Kuhl
2
Official Journal L 345 of 29.12.2001, p. 94.
2
Electronically signed on 20/02/2019 09:25 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563