Meeting - 12th June 2020 between Isabelle Perignon and BUSINESSEUROPE
Dear Justice and Consumers,
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), meeting conclusions, audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on 12th June 2020 between Isabelle Perignon and BUSINESSEUROPE.
In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.
If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Rachel Cox, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours faithfully,
Rachel Cox
Dear Justice and Consumers,
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 'Meeting - 12th June 2020 between Isabelle Perignon and BUSINESSEUROPE'.
I applied for these documents on 26th April 2021; the deadline for a timely response was the 19th May 2021 - within 15 business days, according to the regulation. Receipt of these documents are long overdue.
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), meeting conclusions, audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on 12th June 2020 between Isabelle Perignon and BUSINESSEUROPE.
In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/meet...
Yours faithfully,
Rachel Cox
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Dear Madam,
Thank you for your email of 03/08/2021.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 03/08/2021 under reference number GESTDEM
2021/4850.
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
24/08/2021.
In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due
course.
For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
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Yours faithfully,
JUST ACCESS DOCUMENTS
European Commission
Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers
Rue Montoyer 59
B-1049 Brussels, Belgium
Dear Mrs Cox,
Thank you very much for your email.
After thorough research in the dedicated functional mailboxes of DG
JUSTICE and CONSUMERS, we could not trace back your request.
We sincerely apologise for this.
Without delay, we took the following administrative steps immediately
after receipt of your email today:
* registration of your request and assignment of case number;
* sending of an acknowledgement of receipt to your contact details;
* research of documents which fall within the scope of your request;
* transfer of your request to the person in charge of confirmatory
applications.
We will proceed with the handling of the request and thank you very much
for your patience.
Best regards,
JUST ACCES DOCUMENTS
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Dear Madam,
Thank you for your email dated 03/08/2021 by which you request, pursuant
to Regulation No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament,
Council and Commission documents, a review of the position taken by DG
JUST in reply to your initial application GESTDEM 2021/4850.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your confirmatory application for access
to documents which was registered on 03/08/2021 (Ares(2021)494351).
Your application will be handled within 15 working days (24/08/2021). In
case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due
course.
Please be informed that the answer to your confirmatory application is a
formal Commission decision that will be notified to you by express
delivery. Thank you for providing your contact phone number, so that the
external delivery service can contact you in case of absence.
Please note that the Commission will not use your phone number for any
other purpose than for informing the delivery service, and that it will
delete it immediately thereafter.
Yours faithfully,
Access to documents team (cr)
SG.C.1
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Dear Ms Cox,
I refer to your email of 3 August 2021, registered on the same day, by
which you submit a confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European
Parliament, Council and Commission documents ("Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001"), registered under reference number above.
Your confirmatory application is currently being handled. Unfortunately,
we have not yet been able to gather all the elements needed to carry out a
full analysis of your request and to take a final decision. Therefore, we
are not in a position to reply to your confirmatory request within the
prescribed time limit which expires on 24 August 2021. Consequently, we
have to extend this period by another 15 working days in accordance with
Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. The new deadline expires on
14 September 2021. However, I can assure you that we are doing our utmost
to provide you with a final reply within the next 15 working days.
I regret this additional delay and sincerely apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
María OLIVÁN AVILÉS
Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear Ms Cox,
We are coming back to you in relation to your access to document requests
and would like to provide you with information on the state of play:
- Gestdem 2021/4872: the 1^st deadline for response is today; we
have finalised the analysis of the file, consulted third parties,
consulted CAB Reynders, consulted all COM services which contributed to
the documents and have submitted the draft response (incl. the annexes) to
our hierarchy for signature; we therefore hope to be able to send the
signed response to you preferably today or tomorrow at the latest;
- Gestdem 2021/4850: this is the request which was not registered
in our services due to a clerical error;
You alerted us to this request on 3/8/2021.
We wrote back to you on 3/8/2021 providing details on the procedure we
need to follow to process your request.
As our internal working deadline we noted the 24/8/2021.
We have finalised the analysis of the file, consulted CAB Reynders,
consulted third parties, consulted all COM services which contributed to
the documents and are awaiting the last feedbacks before drafting the
response (incl. the annexes) in the coming days and submitting it to our
hierarchy for signature; we hope to submit the response to you too in the
coming days.
Thank you very much for your patience.
Best regards,
JUST ACCES DOCUMENTS
Dear Ms Cox,
Please find attached our reply concerning your application for access to
documents – GESTDEM 2021/4850.
With kind regards,
JUST ACCESS DOCUMENTS
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Dear Ms Cox,
I refer to your email of 3 August 2021, registered on the same day, by
which you submit a confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European
Parliament, Council and Commission documents ("Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001"), registered under reference number above.
I also refer to our holding reply of 24 August 2021, by which the time
limit for replying to your confirmatory application was extended by 15
working days, pursuant to Article 8(2) of Regulation 1049/2001. This
extended time limit expires on 14 September 2021.
I regret to have to inform you that we are not able to respond within the
extended time-limit, as we have not yet finalised internal consultations.
I can assure you that we are doing our utmost to provide you with a final
reply as soon as possible.
I regret this additional delay and sincerely apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
María OLIVÁN AVILÉS
Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear Madam,
Please find attached an advance copy of a letter concerning your
confirmatory requests for access to documents registered under the
reference GESTDEM 2021/4850.
Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (LC)
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