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Dear Climate Action,

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:

Correspondence, and minutes/notes of meetings, between Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans and/or his cabinet, with the US Secretary of Agriculture, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), or the US Dairy Export Council (USDEC), on the subject of the Global Methane Pledge, methane emissions, livestock emissions, agricultural emissions, livestock, cattle, dairy, beef or meat, in 2022.

Yours faithfully,

Elaine Girvan
Finance and Admin Director
Changing Markets
Newtonlaan 115
3584 BH
Utrecht
Netherlands

CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 21/04/2023 and registered on 02/05/2023 under the case number
2023/2531.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 25/05/2023. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.

To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.

Yours faithfully,

Directorate-General for Climate Action - Access to Documents
European Commission

References

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CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Ms Girvan,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 2 May 2023 under case number EASE 2023/2531.

We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 25.05.2023.

Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 18.06.2023.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

CLIMA Access to documents Team

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Dear Climate Action,

In your email of 26 May 2023, you noted that you needed to extend the time limit to handle my request EASE 2023/2531 by 15 additional working days, and that the new time limit expires on 18.06.2023.

It is now 20 June - ie the extended time limit expired two days ago - and I have not yet received your reply to my request. I'd therefore like to politely request that you send me the documents that my request pertains to with all possible haste, as I should, by law, have already received them.

If for any reason you are unable to send me these documents, I would kindly ask for an explanation of under what legal provision this delay beyond the 15+15 working days is justified.

Yours faithfully,

Elaine Girvan

CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Climate Action

Dear Ms Girvan,

Thank you for your email.

Please accept our apologies for replying to your email with delay.

We are aware of the delay in sending out the reply for your request EASE 2023/2531 and we apologize for any inconvenience we might have caused.

Due to an unprecedented and unexpected heavy workload, we have been prioritizing the urgent request in a chronological order.

You should expect our final reply to the above mentioned request in a couple of days.

Thank you for your patience.

CLIMA Access to documents Team

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CLIMA-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

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Dear Ms Girvan,

Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/2531.

Please accept our apologies for the delay in handling your request.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.

Kind regards,

CLIMA Access to docuemnts Team

Dear Climate Action,

Thank you for your reply, which I confirm I have received.

Yours faithfully,

Elaine Girvan