Ref. Ares(2020)3538273 - 06/07/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS
The acting Director General
Brussels
JUST.DG/JS/fw(2020)3843737s
Mr Luuk Mulder
Nieuwsuur
Post office box 29200
Hilversum 1202MP
The Netherlands
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2020/3579
Dear Mr Mulder,
I write in relation to your e-mail of 8 June 2020, in which you make a request for access
to documents. Your request was registered on 11 June 2020 under the abovementioned
reference number.
You request access to the “
list of attendance for the meeting between representatives of
the European Commission’s services and of the Government of Malta on the issue of the
Individual Investor Programme of the Republic of Malta which took place on 29 January
2014”.
Following a research in the historical archives, I regret to inform you that the
Commission does not hold any such list as described by you.
However, a Joint Press Statement by the European Commission and the Maltese
Authorities on Malta’s Individual Investor Programme of 29 January 2014 has been
made publicly available here:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_14_70
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 are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a
position to fulfil your request.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
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.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt
of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by e-mail to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Salla SAASTAMOINEN
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Electronically signed on 01/07/2020 19:32 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563