Dear Mr Magill,

Thank you for your e-mail of 24 March 2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on the same day under reference number GESTDEM 2020/1691.

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 17 April 2020. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

We have received today another email requesting documents with an identical scope than this request. Please note that we will only register and reply to this request, as we understand that the repeated request has been caused by a mistake.

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 have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by the AsktheEU.org website.

If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address, and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply from, the Commission.

Yours faithfully,

Access to Documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Climate Action
Av. de Beaulieu 24
1049 Brussels

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Dear Mr Magill,

We refer to your request for access to documents dated 24 March 2020,
registered on the same day under the above mentioned reference number.

We are not in a position to complete the handling of your application
within the time limit of 15 working days, which expires tomorrow.

In accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents we have to extend the time limit by 15 working
days, the new deadline is set for 11 May 2020.

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

We note that you did the same request twice using two different emails
corresponding to the portal Ask the EU, only one of the two requests was
registered under the above-mentioned reference. We will provide the reply
a single reply to both emails.

Sincerely,

Access to Documents team

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

Dear Mr Magill,

Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents,
registered under reference GestDem 2020/1691.

According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered post. Please note, however, that due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to
the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice.

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present
e-mail by replying to [1][email address]

Kind regards,

Access to Documents team

European Commission

Directorate-General for Climate Action

Av. de Beaulieu 24

1049 Brussels

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