Access to documents request: 2021-10-12 meeting between Kadri Simson and European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas

Barnaby Pace made this access to documents request to Energy

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on October 12 between Kadri Simson and European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas.

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace

Sg-Acc-Doc@ec.europa.eu, Energy

Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
 
 
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Sg-Acc-Doc@ec.europa.eu, Energy

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail of 29/11/2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 29/11/2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/7402.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days.

The time limit will expire on 20/12/2021. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which has no link with any institution of the European Union.
Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

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For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by the AsktheEU.org website.

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For information on how we process your personal data visit our page Privacy statement – access to documents.

Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team (cr)
SG.C.1
Transparency

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ENER-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Energy

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Dear Mr Pace,

 

We refer to your e-mail of 29 November 2021 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 29 November 2021 under the above
mentioned reference number. Your application is currently being handled.

However, we will not be in a position to complete the handling of your
application within the time limit of 15 working days, which expires on 20
December 2021.

An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns documents
held by different Services, which must be consulted.

Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 19 January 2022.

We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

 

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European Commission

 

DG Energy

DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [2][email address]

 

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Dear [email address],

I note that the extended deadline set by DG Energy for this request passed on the 20th December and I have yet to receive any further update. By law, under all circumstances, the authority should have responded by now. Could you please provide an update on the expected timeline for response.

Yours sincerely,

Barnaby Pace

Dear [email address],

I note that the extended deadline for this request expired well over a month ago. I would request an urgent update.

Yours sincerely,

Barnaby Pace

Dear Energy,

Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.

I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Access to documents request: 2021-10-12 meeting between Kadri Simson and European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas'.

This request is now extremely overdue and I have not received any updates from DG Energy despite multiple prompts.

A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/acces...

Yours faithfully,

Barnaby Pace

SG ACCES DOCUMENTS, Energy

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your email dated 17/06/2022 by which you request, pursuant
to Regulation No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament,
Council and Commission documents, a review of the position taken by DG
ENER in reply to your initial application GESTDEM 2021/7402.

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your confirmatory application for access
to documents which was registered on 20/06/2022 (Ares(2022)4521051).

Your application will be handled within 15 working days (11/07/2022). In
case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due
course.

Please be informed that the answer to your confirmatory application is a
formal Commission decision that will be notified to you by express
delivery. Thank you for providing your contact phone number, so that the
external delivery service can contact you in case of absence.

Please note that the Commission will not use your phone number for any
other purpose than for informing the delivery service, and that it will
delete it immediately thereafter.

Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team (cr)
SG.C.1
Transparency

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SG ACCES DOCUMENTS, Energy

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[5]Your confirmatory application for access to documents under Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2021/7402 - 1st holding letter -
Ares(2022)5043782  (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user –
Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares)

Dear Mr Pace,

 

I refer to your e-mail of 17 June 2022, registered on 20 June 2022, by
which you submit a confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European
Parliament, Council and Commission documents ("Regulation 1049/2001").

 

Your confirmatory application is currently being handled. Unfortunately,
we have not yet been able to gather all the elements we need to carry out
a full analysis of your request in order to take a final decision and are
therefore not in a position to reply to your confirmatory request within
the prescribed time limit expiring on 11 July 2022.

 

Consequently, we have to extend this period by another 15 working days in
accordance with Article 8(2) of Regulation 1049/2001. The new deadline
expires on 2 August 2022.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit

European Commission

Secretariat General

Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)

 

 

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Hello,

Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2021/7402.

Kind regards,