Dear European External Action Service,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, and with reference to the UNECE Aarhus Convention, due to the environmental nature of this inquiry, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

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 meetings on February 1st, 2023, between the Minister of Foreign Relations of Argentina Santiago Cafiero and Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) and High Representative of the EU for External Affairs, Josep Borrell, together with the Executive Vice-President of the EC and Commissioner for EU Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, and the European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen.

I would prefer to receive documents electronically but if that is not possible please use the following postal address:

Transport & Environment
18 Square de Meeûs, 1050 Brussels
Belgium

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

Yours faithfully,
Cian Delaney
Transport & Environment

Dear European External Action Service,

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 'Documentation from meetings on February 1st 2023 between Santiago Cafiero and EU officials'.

I am not satisfied with my result of request, which concluded that full information on this documentation is to be withheld. This contradicts my freedom of information entitlements guaranteed by the Aarhus Convention, according to the EU's own official wording.

The Aarhus Convention protects every person’s right to live in a healthy environment. It guarantees the public three key rights on environmental issues. Access to information refers to the public’s right to receive environmental information held by public authorities. This includes information on:

- the state of the environment
- policies or measures affecting the environment
- public health and safety where these are affected by the state of the environment.

I draw your attention specifically to the second point made here, as the discussion held at the meetings in question can be linked to Argentina's negotiations demands regarding soy biofuels exports to the EU. This product has already been recognized in the European Union Deforestation Regulation as a major driver of deforestation and, therefore, information on these documents concerns policies or measures affecting the environment.

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

Yours faithfully,

Cian Delaney