All the meetings and discussions about PFAS (perfluoroalkyl substances)
Dear Joint Research Centre,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
For the period between 1 January 2017 to date:
- a list of all lobby and industry meetings and/or calls held by the Directorate-General for Joint Research Centre, including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, during which “PFAS” and/or “C604” and/or “PFOA” and/or “GenX” were discussed.
The list should include: date, individuals attending and organisational affiliation, as well as the issues discussed;
- all minutes and other reports of these meetings and/or calls;
- all documents prepared for the purpose of the meetings issued both in preparation and after the meetings took place.
- all correspondence, including attachments (i.e. any emails, mail correspondence or telephone call notes) between the Directorate-General for Joint Research Centre, including any Cabinet Members and/or officials, and any lobby group and/or industry representative discussing “PFAS” and/or “C6O4” and/or “PFOA” and/or “GenX”
To the extent possible, I prefer the documents in electronic format.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, I kindly request to explain the denial or all redactions 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.
Please confirm receipt of this application. I look forward to receiving your reply within 15 business days, as established by the regulation.
Yours faithfully,
Francesca Cicculli
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[5]RE: access to documents request - All the meetings and discussions
about PFAS (perfluoroalkyl substances) - Ares(2021)5164330 (Please use
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Access to documents Team
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Dear JRC ACCESS DOCUMENTS,
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
My postal address is:
Via Fosso dell'Acqua Mariana 23
Rome (ITALY)
00118
Yours sincerely,
Francesca Cicculli
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Dear Ms Cicculli,
Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref. GestDem No
2021/5093
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
received on 17/08/2021 and registered on 18/08/2021 under reference number
GESTDEM 2021/5093.
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
08/09/2021.
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Access to documents Team
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Dear Madam,
We refer to your e-mail of 17 August 2021 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 18 August 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 8 September 2021.
An extended time limit is needed as (part of) the documents requested
originate from third parties, which have been consulted on the possibility
to disclose the documents.
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 29 September
2021.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
Access to documents Team
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Dear Ms Francesca Cicculli,
We refer to your e-mail of 17 August 2021 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 18 August 2021 under the above
mentioned reference number.
Please note that due to the wide scope of your request, covering also
areas falling under the responsibility of other Directorates-General,
parts of your request have been attributed to other
Directorates-General [4][1]. This reply relates only to the documents held
by the Joint Research Centre. You will receive the replies from the other
respective Directorates-General in due course.
We enclose a copy of the documents requested, all related to the work done
by the JRC under the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU:
– Document 1: Background Paper for the final meeting of the Technical
Working Group (TWG) for the review of the Best Available Techniques (BAT)
reference document for the Textiles Industry (TXT BREF) of 31 March 2021 –
registered under the reference Ares(2021)2234504
– Document 2: Kick-off meeting Report for the review of the BAT
reference document for the textiles industry of the TXT Technical Working
group (TWG), of 13 September 2018 registered under the reference
Ares(2018)4698733
– Four documents in preparation of the Workshop on data assessment
for the review of the BAT reference document for the textiles industry
(TXT) in Seville on 1 – 2 October 2019, all registered under the reference
: Ares(2021)5421579
– Document 3: Background document of 17 July 2019,
– Document 4: Table of specific amount of waste water discharged
– Documents 5 and 6: Presentations on Emissions to water
– Document 7: Comments from EURATEX[5][2] within the Working Group
related to the mentioned chemicals received on 27 March 2020 - registered
under the reference Ares(2021)5421777
– Document 8; Comments from EEB[6][3] within the Working Group
related to the mentioned chemicals received on 27 March 2020 - registered
under the reference Ares(2021)5421848
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European IPPC Bureau
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[11][1] DG Environment: GestDem 2021/5083; DG Health and Food Safety:
GestDem 2021/5112, DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs: GestDem 2021/5104; DG Climate Action: GestDem 2021/5137.
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