Industry, vaccines and patents (President of the Commission)

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To the Secretariat General of the European Commission

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:

(i) a list of meetings of the President of the European Commission and her cabinet AND representatives of EFPIA (including Vaccines Europe), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and pharmaceutical company Pfizer since 1 September 2020.

(ii) minutes and other reports of these meetings;

(iii) all correspondence (including emails) between the President of the European Commission and her cabinet AND representatives of EFPIA (including Vaccines Europe), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and/or pharmaceutical company Pfizer since 1 September 2020.

I would be grateful if you could take the Code of Good Administrative Behaviour into account when considering (i) of this request.

Yours sincerely,

Yours faithfully,

Kenneth Haar
Overgaden oven Vandet 12
1415 Copenhagen K
Denmark

ve_sg.accessdoc (SG), Secretariat General of the European Commission

[1]Ares(2021)1017727 - RE: access to documents request - Industry,
vaccines and patents (President of the Commission) -- Ref. Gestdem
2021/583

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Dear Sir,

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 5 February 2021 under reference number GESTDEM
2021/583.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days.

The time limit will expire on 26 February 2021. In case this time limit
needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union.
Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any
technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website
is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data
via that website, and not the Commission.
For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s
privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
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Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
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Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team (rc)
SG.C.1
Transparency

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DOBRAN Cosmin, Secretariat General of the European Commission

Subject:       Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM
2021/0583

We refer to your email of 4 February 2021, in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 5 February 2021 under the above
mentioned reference number.

Your application is currently being handled. However, we were not be in a
position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit of 15 working days, which expired on 25 February 2021.

o An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns a very
large number of documents;

Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 18 March 2021.

 

We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Cosmin Dobran

Head of Unit

 

 

ve_sg.e4(SG), Secretariat General of the European Commission

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Please find attached document Ares(2021)1901342 from DOBRAN Cosmin (SG.E.4) dated 16/03/2021.

Veuillez trouver ci-joint le document Ares(2021)1901342 de DOBRAN Cosmin (SG.E.4) daté du 16/03/2021.

Dear Cosmin Dobran.

Thank you for the documents in relation to GESTDEM 2020/0583.

I have two follow-up questions:
- I can see there is no list of meetings attached. From the written documents, it seems no meetings were held between the President, her cabinet AND representatives of EFPIA. Is that the case? Can I conclude that no phone calls took place either?

- Also, as 'correspondance' includes text messages, can I conclude that no text messages were sent back and forth between the two sides?

Yours sincerely,

Kenneth Haar