ECHA correspondence with or mentioning Monsanto

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Benedek Javor, Michele Rivasi and Bart Staes

Dear European Chemicals Agency,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in the access to documents Regulation 1049/2001 and Aarhus Regulation 1367/2006, we are requesting documents which contain the following information:

- Correspondence, including emails, sent or received by officials working on the assessment of glyphosate which mention Monsanto or the Glyphosate Task Force during the year 2016. This includes inter-institutional correspondence, correspondence with Member States’ authorities and their Permanent Representations as well as correspondence with third parties.

- Agendas or minutes of meetings which mention Monsanto, the Glyphosate Task Force, the USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

- Correspondence, including emails, between officials working on the assessment of glyphosate and Monsanto or the Glyphosate Task Force during the year 2016.

Thank you in advance,

Yours faithfully,

MEPs Benedek Javor, Michele Rivasi and Bart Staes

ECHA ATD, European Chemicals Agency

Dear Members of the European Parliament,

 

Thank you for your below email dated 21 June 2017.

 

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which has been registered under reference ATD/54/2017 on 22 June 2017.

 

Kind regards,

 

Access to documents team

European Chemicals Agency

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Benedek Javor, Michele Rivasi and Bart Staes
[mailto:[FOI #4411 email]]
Sent: 21 June 2017 21:27
To: ECHA ATD <[ECHA request email]>
Subject: access to documents request - ECHA correspondence with or
mentioning Monsanto

 

Dear European Chemicals Agency,

 

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
the access to documents Regulation 1049/2001 and Aarhus Regulation
1367/2006, we are requesting documents which contain the following
information:

 

- Correspondence, including emails, sent or received by officials working
on the assessment of glyphosate which mention Monsanto or the Glyphosate
Task Force during the year 2016. This includes inter-institutional
correspondence, correspondence with Member States’ authorities and their
Permanent Representations as well as correspondence with third parties.

 

- Agendas or minutes of meetings which mention Monsanto, the Glyphosate
Task Force, the USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

 

- Correspondence, including emails, between officials working on the
assessment of glyphosate and Monsanto or the Glyphosate Task Force during
the year 2016.

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Yours faithfully,

 

MEPs Benedek Javor, Michele Rivasi and Bart Staes

 

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Dear Members of the European Parliament,

 

With reference to your request of 21 June 2017 (Ref ATD/54/2017) please
find attached a reply from Mr Jack de Bruijn, Director of Risk Management.

 

In case the links in the letter are not accessible, please find them here
below:

 

(4) Email of 04/11/2016 (relating presentation to this email is published
on the ECHA website:
[1]https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/2...

(14) Attachment to email no. 13. List of messages sent by Avaaz members
from every EU country to ECHA. Also published on the ECHA website as part
of the attachments received during the public consultation:
[2]https://echa.europa.eu/harmonised-classi...

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Sharon Spiteri Enden

Classification and Prioritisation Unit
European Chemicals Agency
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Tel: +358 9 686 1 8865

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