Dear DG Competition Access to Document Team,

under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents relating to any article 16, article 12B or article 40 (Staff Regulations) applications made by Daniel Coublucq when he left DG Comp to take up employment at Compass Lexecon in September 2018.

In particular, I request a note of all Daniel Coublucq's job titles at the Commission including dates held (incl. duration of his working contracts); copies of any application(s) that he made under article 12b, 16 and 40 to undertake the new professional activity; the date of issuing the authorisation; any assessments of the compatibility of his new role with his DG Comp role; and all documents (correspondence, emails, meeting notes etc) related to the authorisation of the new role.

In addition:
- I request all documents, correspondence and meeting notes concerned with Daniel Coublucq’s role in the Bayer/Monsanto merger, including the information about his participation in Unit E4 or presence in any Unit E4 meetings concerning the Bayer / Monsanto merger

- I request all documents, correspondence and meeting notes that describe Daniel Coublucq’s involvement in the Comission’s evaluation of BASF acquisition of Bayer seed treat and herbicide assets and its digital farming assets

- I request all documents, correspondence and meeting notes on opinions’s expressed by Daniel Coublucq in DG Comp, in Unit E4’s meetings or as an invited member, concerning the following document from Compass Lexecon:
 1)“Analysis of BASF’s incentives as regards to herbicides and herbicide tolerance traits” (13/3/2018),

Finally, I would like to request all declarations of interest made by Daniel Coublucq when he rejoined the Commission from Compass Lexecon in October 2020. I would like to receive all Commission documents including any emails, letters, minutes of meetings which discuss the risk of conflicts of interest in this case, and a note of any restrictions which were applied to Mr Coublucq when he rejoined the Commission.

I would appreciate receiving all the replies electronically via the asktheeu.org website.

Thank you very much indeed in advance for taking this forward,
Max Bank, LobbyControl

LobbyControl - Initiative für Transparenz und Demokratie e.V.
Am Justizzentrum 7
50939 Köln
Germany

Dear DG Comptition Access to Document team,

Thank you for your very much indeed for coming back to me and for registering my application for access to documents under case number 2023/6402.

I am looking forward to hearing from you until the 20/11/2023.

Kind regards,
Max Bank (LobbyControl)

Dear DG Comptition Access to Document team,

thank you for for coming back to me on my request registered under under case number 2023/6402.

It is unfortunate to hear that you are not able to respond to my request within the given time limit.

I am looking forward to hearing from you at the latest until the 11/12/2023. We would welcome an earlier answer though.

Kind regards,
Max Bank (LobbyControl)