Legal advice on mandatory nature of lobby register
Dear Secretariat General,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting full disclosure of the document entitled:
Ares(2013)3191712 'Mandatory Register of Lobbyists: Legal Advice'.
Yours faithfully,
Andreas Pavlou
Calle Cava de San Miguel 8, 4c,
28005 Madrid,
Spain
Dear Mr Pavlou,
Thank you for your request dated 04/03/2016. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents registered on 07/03/2016 under the reference number GestDem 2016/1097.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, you will receive a response to your request within 15 working days: 31/03/2016.
If this deadline needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course
Best regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit SG.B4 – Transparency
Dear Mr Pavlou ,
We refer to your email of 7 March 2016, registered as GESTDEM 2016/1097 by
which you request access to documents under Regulation Nº 1049/2001
regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents (OJ L 145, 31.05.2001, page 43).
Your application has been dealt. However, since it will take some time
before the official response to your request is approved by all the
persons involved, we have to extend the prescribed period by another of 15
working days before you receive a reply.
The new time limit expires on 21 April 2016. However we certainly will be
able to reply to you before this date.
We apologize for this delay,
Yours sincerely,
LS Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Legal Service
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-299 11 11
Dear Mr Pavlou,
Please find attached an advanced copy of the reply to your request for
access to documents GESTDEM 2016/1097.
The paper version of the decision signed by our Director General will be
sent to you shortly by registered mail. Please note that the document for
which partial access has been granted is transmitted by e-mail only (see
attachment).
Yours sincerely,
LS Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Legal Service
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-299 11 11