Ref. Ares(2020)7121594 - 26/11/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT
The Director-General
Brussels,
move.a.1(2020)7879886/ST
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
Joachim Schueth
Am Paulshof 5
53127 Bonn
Germany
Advance copy by email: ask+request-8699-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Sir,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/6536
We refer to your e-mail of 24 October 2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 5 November 2020 under the above-mentioned reference
number.
In particular, you request the access to the following: “
In the position of the EU
Parliament adopted on 26 March 2019 concerning the end of seasonal clock changes, EP-
PE_TC1-COD(2018)0332, it was agreed in section (5) that member states should notify the
EU Comission by 1 April 2020 at the latest in the event that they intend to change their
standard time on the last Sunday in October 2021. Please provide a list that states, for each
member state, if it has notified the Comission of its decision, and if so, what this decision is
(i.e. to change or not to change its standard time).”
We regret to inform you that the Commission does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application.
On 12 September 2018, the European Commission proposed a Directive on abolishing
seasonal time changes (COM(2018) 639). You refer in your application to the position of
the European Parliament adopted on 26 March 2019 in response to the Commission
proposal. However, the Parliament’s first reading position of last year is only one step in
the legislative procedure for the new Directive to come into force. The second co-
legislator, the Council of the European Union, did not adopt any position on the
Commission proposal yet. Once we would have a Council position, European Parliament
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E-mail: xxxxxx.xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
and Council would still need to negotiate a common text both institutions can agree to.
Only then, the new Directive would be ready to enter into force and take legal effect.
And only then, Member States will have to indicate their future standard time (according
to the provisions set out in the final text agreed by Parliament and Council).
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.
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 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
Henrik HOLOLEI
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Electronically signed on 26/11/2020 09:25 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482