Documents related to International Coffee Agreement 2022
Dear International Partnerships,
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:
The requests concerns
a) documents (such as agendas, Commission briefing papers and minutes) that relate to meetings as well as correspondence (such as emails, letters, faxes) between Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen, Members of her cabinet, DG INTPA members of staff, and the following:
-any representatives of the International Coffee Organization
-any representatives of the Mercosur States (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay)
-any representatives of the Republic of Kenya
-any representatives of the United States of America
in relation to the negotiations on the 2022 International Coffee Agreement.
b) a list of all lobby meetings held between officials/representatives of
DG INTPA and coffee and international commodities companies since 1 December 2019, in which the 2022 International Coffee Agreement has been discussed. The list should include:
date, the name of the company attending, minutes, and the purpose of the meeting if
possible.
Please send (electronically if possible) the requested documents to [email address].
Please produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the search for - or deliberations concerning - certain documents delay the production of others that have already retrieved and eligible for disclosure. In the event this application relates to a very large number of documents, I am to finding a fair solution within the prescribed limits.
Should you need further information please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Vivi Säiläkivi
Päijänteentie 4-6A3
00550 Helsinki
Finland
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 26/02/2024 and registered on 26/02/2024 under the case number
2024/1062.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 18/03/2024. 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 International Partnerships - Access to Documents
European Commission
References
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Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/1062.
Kind regards,
Lara Boudron
Dear International Partnerships,
May I remind you that by now, you should have already replied my documents request.
In exceptional circumstances, for example when an application relates to a very long
document or a very large number of documents, the prescribed time limit may be extended
by another 15 working days. You have already done this and those 15 working days have passed.
The response to the request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, the authority should have responded by now.
Yours sincerely,
Vivi Säiläkivi
Dear International Partnerships,
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 'Documents related to International Coffee Agreement 2022'.
On 14.3.24 you wrote me that:
"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 18/03/2024.
The application concerns a very large number of documents and different colleagues need to be
consulted. Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, we need to extend this
time limit by 15 additional working days. The new time limit expires on 08/04/2024."
That new time limit has expired a long time ago. Failure by the Commission to reply within the prescribed time limit is equivalent to a negative reply. In such case, the Commission must inform the
applicant in writing of his or her right to bring an action in the General Court (GC) or to
complain to the European Ombudsman (according to the conditions laid down in Articles
263 and 228 TFEU respectively).
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,
Vivi Säiläkivi
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2024/1062, sent on 18/04/2024 and registered on 19/04/2024.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 14/05/2024. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/1062.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
Hello,
We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case [1]2024/1062, registered on 19/04/2024.
As you did not receive a reply to your initial request registered on
26/02/2024, you submitted a confirmatory request.
In the meantime, the initial reply in question was sent to you on
05/04/2024.
Against this background, the Secretariat-General has closed your
confirmatory request.
You can submit a new confirmatory request for this case in accordance with
Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 if you wish to ask for a review
of the initial reply.
Kind regards,
References
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Dear International Partnerships,
Thank you for your reply. As you can see, the initial reply in question was not sent to me on
05/04/2024 but on 19/04/2024, as indicated at the top of the document "NDH reply 2024 1062" you sent me.
I sent my reminder on 18/04/2024.
I think this indicates that you sent the reply only after I reminded you, and you did not stick to the time limits set for replying set in the Article 7 of the Regulation 1049/2001.
This is a practice that should be uprooted. People should not have to remind you of your duties as laid down in the law.
Yours faithfully,
Vivi Säiläkivi