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Dear European Parliament,

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:

A network of European and American encyclopedia publishers organised a meeting with the European Parliamentary Research Service in October of 2019 to which three people affiliated with the Parliament/EPRS attended (https://encyclopedias.eu/conference/2019/).

I would like a copy of all documents held by the Parliament

a) concerning this meeting
OR
b) the "European Encyclopedia Network"
OR
c) any of these individual encyclopedia publishing houses:

Austria Austria-Forum.org
Bosnia and Herzegovina Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canada Historica Canada (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Spain (Catalonia) Catalan Encyclopedia
Germany Brockhaus NE
Denmark lex.dk
France Encyclopædia Universalis
Georgia Georgian Encyclopedia
Croatia Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography
Italy Treccani
Lithuania Lithuanian Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Centre
Latvia Latvian National Encyclopedia
Montenegro Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
Norway Allkunne – Norwegian Encyclopedia
Norway Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
Norway Minus
Sweden Swedish National Encyclopedia
Ukraine NAS Institute of Encyclopedic Research
USA Encyclopædia Britannica

Yours faithfully,

Mathias Schindler

European Parliament

Our reference: 2023-0169

Dear Mr Schindler Mathias,

The European Parliament hereby acknowledges receipt of your message, which
was registered on February 8, 2023.

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to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

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Best regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[2][European Parliament request email]
[3]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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European Parliament

Our reference: 2023-0169

Dear Mr Schindler,

Thank you for contacting the Transparency Unit of the European Parliament.

Further to your application under [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
Parliament has identified four documents as falling within the scope of
your request, which have now been made publicly available, after the
deletion of marginal personal data, on Parliament's Public Register of
Documents, under reference EP-PE_DV(2023)0169: [2]here is the link.

The documents contain email exchanges referring to the conference
organised in October 2019 you mentioned in your application, as well as to
a similar conference being organised for 2022, and to the circulation of a
draft Charter of the European Encyclopedia Network. The latter charter is
still not final, as it has not yet been approved by the parties concerned,
but once finalised it will be published on the European Encyclopedia
Network's website.

On this basis, Parliament considers your application handled and the
procedure closed. Should you wish to submit any new requests for specific
Parliament documents, [3]please do not hesitate to come back to us.

Kind regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[4][European Parliament request email]
[5]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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4. mailto:[European Parliament request email]
5. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

Dear European Parliament,
Dear Transparency Unit,

thank you for your response. I appreciate the work. I would, however, consider the attachments to the emails to be within the scope of the request.

I therefore invite you to release the following files:

June 3, 2022 email: "Second European and North American Encyclopedia Conference.msg"
July 25, 2022 email: "Conference topics.docx"
January 26, 2023 email: "Charter draftFINAL.docx"

The January 26, 2023 email refers to an email from December 19 (2022 presumably) that was not released and which would likely be within the scope of this request as well.

Before I start a formal internal review process under Regulation 1049/2001, could you please indicate whether the redactions in the mail headers refer to people names only or if they contain EU institution names and units as well? It is my understanding that redacting a Unit name would not necassarily be required in order to protect personal information.

Yours faithfully,

Mathias Schindler

European Parliament

Our reference: 2023-2399

Dear Mr Schindler Mathias,

The European Parliament registered your message on Feb 23, 2023 as a new
application under reference 2023-2399. Your previous application under
reference 2023-0169 has been dealt with and all identified documents
falling within its scope as interpreted by Parliament have been made
public. We hereby confirm that the redactions made to the published
documents are in line with Regulation (EU) No 2018/1725 of 23 October
2018, as only names of natural persons have been redacted.

All applications for public access to documents are treated in accordance
with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access
to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

In line with the above-mentioned regulation, your application will be
handled within 15 working days upon registration of your request.

Your personal data will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) No
2018/1725 of 23 October 2018 on the protection of the individuals with
regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions
and bodies and on the free movement of such data. A detailed privacy
statement can be found [1]here.

The European Parliament reserves the right to ask for additional
information regarding your identity in order to verify compliance with
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and the European Parliament’s implementing
measures.

Please note that any personal data provided via FragDenStaat may be
published on this private website. The European Parliament cannot be held
liable for their publication. If you need to provide personal data
directly to the European Parliament and wish to avoid publication, you can
do so by sending an email from your private account to the following
address: AccesDocs(at)europarl.europa.eu  

Yours faithfully,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[2][European Parliament request email]
[3]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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2. mailto:[European Parliament request email]
3. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

European Parliament

Our reference: 2023-2399

Dear Mr Schindler,

Thank you for contacting the Transparency Unit of the European Parliament.

Further to your application under [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
requesting access to the attachments of the emails identified within your
previous request, with reference 2023-0169, and to the email dated 19
December 2022 concerning the draft charter for the European Encyclopedia
Network and website, Parliament has identified four documents, including
the attachment of the latter email, which are now published on the EP
Public Register of Documents under reference EP-PE_DV(2023)2399, [2]HERE.
Please note that marginal personal data has been redacted.

As complementary information, the second European and North American
Encyclopedia Conference was organised by the Miroslav Krleža Institute of
Lexicography. The agreement to establish the European Encyclopedia Network
(EEN) was reached at the Conference. For the time being, the Network is
under the leadership of Bruno Kragić, director general of the Miroslav
Krleža Institute of Lexicography and chief editor of the Croatian
Encyclopedia. Information about the European and North American
Encyclopedia Conference, including the Conference Booklet (with a
description of Conference topics, programme, and list of participants), as
well as the video recordings of the Conference sessions (on the
Institute's YouTube channel), is available on the [3]Miroslav Krleža
Institute of Lexicography's website.

The final version of the Charter is still being prepared, and its
publication is expected by the end of the month (March 2023), on the
[4]European Encyclopedia Network's website.

No further Parliament documents could be identified at this stage.

On this basis, Parliament considers your application handled and the
procedure closed. Should you wish to submit any new requests for specific
Parliament documents, [5]please do not hesitate to come back to us.

Kind regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[6][European Parliament request email]
[7]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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2. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreW...
3. https://www.lzmk.hr/en-us/news/european-...
4. https://encyclopedianetwork.eu/
5. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreW...
6. mailto:[European Parliament request email]
7. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

Mathias Schindler left an annotation ()

Direct links to the documents released in the second batch:

* https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/p... Draft 2.0

* https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/p... Draft 3.0

* https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/p... Email exchange

* https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/p... The Second European and North American Encyclopedia Conference

Mathias Schindler

Dear European Parliament,

thank you for your fast handling of my request.

Yours faithfully,

Mathias Schindler