Dear Ms Verheecke,

Thank you for your e-mail of 5 January 2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 7 January 2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/0098.

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 28 January 2022. 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 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.
For information on how we process your personal data visit our page Privacy statement – access to documents.

Yours faithfully,

GROW Access to Documents Team

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Dear Ms Verheecke,

We refer to your e-mail dated 05/01/2022 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered on 07/01/2022 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 (subject(s), level of the meetings, etc.) on the documents that you seek to obtain. Could you please explain what you refer to while using the acronym ASD?

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, please let us know.
In accordance with Article 2, third paragraph of the Implementing Rules to Regulation 1049/2001[1], 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.

Kind regards,

GROW ATD TEAM

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