Meeting between Energy and Churches

Energy did not have the information requested.

Dear Energy,

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 complete of list of all meetings held by any member of your team/staff with churches, religious associations or communities, as well as with philosophical and non-confessional organisations, from 1 January 2014 onwards, specifying the status of the organization (church, religious association or community, philosophical association or non-confessional association).
All documents, including all emails, minutes, reports or other documents received or drawn up before, during or after the meetings, and any other briefing papers related to these meetings.
I would prefer to receive this information in a machine-readable electronic format.
Do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions related to my request.

Yours faithfully,

Josefina Martí
Calle de Juan Bravo 62
Madrid
28006
Spain

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Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
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L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
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aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
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der Kommission behandelt.
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[1]Ares(2019)2358417 - RE: access to documents request - Meeting between
Energy and Churches --- Ref. Gestdem 2019/2049

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Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 02/04/2019 providing us with your postal
address in the framework of your request for access to documents. We
hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 02/04/2019 under reference number GestDem
2019/2049.

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 29/04/2019. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.

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Yours faithfully,

Carlos Remis
SG.C.1
Transparence
Charl. 03/21

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Dear Ms Martí,

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 02/04/2019 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 03/04/2019 under the above mentioned
reference number.

 

The description given in your application does not enable us to identify
concrete documents which would correspond to your request.

We therefore invite you, pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, to provide us with more
detailed information, such as the names of the targeted organisations.

 

Please find below a link to the Transparency Register, in which you can
find a list of organisations representing churches and religious
communities :

[1]http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister...

 

 

 

 

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us by email to: [email address]

 

In accordance with Article 2, third paragraph of the Implementing Rules to
Regulation 1049/2001 , the 15 working days time limit for handling your
application will start running when we receive the requested
clarifications.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

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European Commission

 

DG Energy

DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [3][email address]

 

 

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Dear Energy,

I can not give you more detailed information, as that is all the information the law I am based on provides. Please, understand those terms in the same way the article 3 of COMMISSION DECISION of 25 November 2014 (on the publication of information on meetings held between Directors-General of the Commission and organisations or self-employed individuals) does.

Moreover, the Agreement between the European Parliament and the European Commission on the transparency register for organisations and self-employed individuals engaged in EU policy-making and policy implementation (19.9.2014) establishes that transparency register does not apply to churches, religious communities. As such, I cannot identify them in advance and I expected you, as one of the bodies of the EC applying this transparency requirements to lobbyists, to do it.

Yours faithfully,

Josefina Martí

Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
 
 
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
 
 
Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
 
 

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Dear Ms Martí,

Thank you for your email.

Could you please give me more information on the law you are based on in order to help us to identify better the scope of your request ?
Could you kindly specify the objective and the specific interest in the documents requested, so as to reduce our search to a more manageable amount of documents ?

If this can help you to provide us with more detailed information and identify some organisations you would like to target, I attach you the list of representing churches and religious communities (available via the Transparency Register).

Yours sincerely,

European Commission
DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [email address]

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Dear Energy,

The transparency register only includes organisations that represent churches and religious communities, not churches by themselves. This is because the Agreement between the European Parliament and the European Commission on the transparency register for organisations and self-employed individuals (19.9.2014) exempts them from doing so. This is one of the legislations I am based on.
Also, on Article 3 of the COMMISSION DECISION of 25 November 2014 on the publication of information on meetings held between Members of the Commission and organisations or self-employed individuals.
My objective is to know all the meetings between members of the Commssion and members of this churches and religious communities that do not have to register (for example a meeting with a bishop).

Yours faithfully,

Josefina Martí

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Dear Ms Martí,

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 02/04/2019 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 03/04/2019 under the above mentioned
reference number.

Your application is currently being handled. However, we will not be in a
position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit of 15 working days, which expires on 29/04/2019.

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 22/05/2019. 

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

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

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European Commission

 

DG Energy

DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [2][email address]

 

 

 

 

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Dear Ms Martí,

Please find attached the electronic copy of the answer to your request reg. GestDem No 2019/2049.
The paper original will follow by post.

Best regards

DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [email address]