Communication and decision process regarding 14/2/2019 blog post "The Copyright Directive" and its subsequent retraction

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Dear Communication,

On 14 February 2019, the European Commission published a blog post titled "The Copyright Directive: how the mob was told to save the dragon and slay the knight" at https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/t.... This blog post was subsequently retracted two days later.
The original blog post is still available at https://web.archive.org/web/201902151145.... The removal text at https://web.archive.org/web/201902161800....

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:

- Who was responsible for putting this blog post online?
- Was there a consensus on the content of this blog post? And if so, among whom?
- Did this blog post reflect the views of the European Commission at the time of publication?
- Does it reflect the views of the European Commission now?
- Were concerns against this blog post raised before its publication?
- Why was this blog post retracted?
- Who decided to retract this blog post?
- What draft versions of this blog post exist?
- What communication happened concerning this blog post?

Yours faithfully,

Ruben Verborgh

Communication

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Dear Communication,

According to Regulation 1049/2001 the applicant simply has to make a written request in any form, including electronic form. There is no further requirement to give any personal details nor to state reasons for the request. Article 6.1 of the Regulation says "Applications for access to a document shall be made in any written form, including electronic form, in one of the languages referred to in Article 314 of the EC Treaty and in a sufficiently precise manner to enable the institution to identify the document. The applicant is not obliged to state reasons for the application."

Also, we no longer live in the Stone Age.

Nonetheless, I have sent you my postal address by email to [email address] with subject
Right of access to documents: Communication and decision process regarding 14/2/2019 blog post "The Copyright Directive" and its subsequent retraction

Yours faithfully,

Ruben Verborgh

AsktheEU.org Team,

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