Meeting minutes, correspondence and study on common charger

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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

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:

- All correspondence and minutes pertaining to the meeting with Apple on May 15 2018 on the issue of the common charger. (As per EC website, the meeting was attended by Kaius Kristian Hedberg, Rolf Carsten Bermig.)

- The impact assessment study and all documents and correspondence pertaining to the study on common chargers. The study was mentioned by Commissioner Vestager in a written answer to the European Parliament on August 1: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docu...

Yours faithfully,

Alexander Fanta

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Dear Mr Fanta,

Thank you for your request for access to documents.

Unfortunately, you have not indicated your postal address that is required for registering and handling your request in line with the procedural requirements. Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience. Pending your reply, we reserve the right to refuse the registration of your request.

You may of course use directly the electronic form for entering your request:
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/...

Best regards,

DG GROW – Access to documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
DG GROW/03 – The Strategic planning and delivery Unit

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Fanta <[FOI #6108 email]>
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:53 PM
To: GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG GROW request email]>
Subject: access to documents request - Meeting minutes, correspondence and study on common charger

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

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:

- All correspondence and minutes pertaining to the meeting with Apple on May 15 2018 on the issue of the common charger. (As per EC website, the meeting was attended by Kaius Kristian Hedberg, Rolf Carsten Bermig.)

- The impact assessment study and all documents and correspondence pertaining to the study on common chargers. The study was mentioned by Commissioner Vestager in a written answer to the European Parliament on August 1: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docu...

Yours faithfully,

Alexander Fanta

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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

my address is:

netzpolitik.org
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
10119 Berlin
Germany

Yours faithfully,

Alexander Fanta

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Dear Mr Fanta,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 08/11/2018. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 23/11/2018 under reference number GestDem 2018/6207.

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 14/12/2018. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note that this is 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 European Commission. For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running that website usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the European Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may have communicated to the European 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 your correspondence with the European Commission to be published on the AsktheEU.org website, you can provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further correspondence. In that case, the European Commission will send all future electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address.

Yours sincerely,

DG GROW – Access to documents team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
DG GROW/03 – Strategic Planning and Delivery Unit

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Dear Mr FANTA,

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 08/11/2018 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 23/11/2018under the above mentioned
reference number.

The reply to your request could not be finalised today. Therefore, we are
not in a position to complete the handling of your application within the
extended time limit of 15 working days, which expires today (16/01/2019).
Please be reassured that we are doing our best to be able to send you the
reply in the coming days.

 

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

 

Kind regards,

 

 

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

 

[1]cid:479385507@17082012-2045

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG  GROW/03 – The Strategic planning and delivery Unit

 

 

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Dear Sir,

 

Please find in annex the reply to your request d.d. 8/11/2018.

 

Kind regards,

 

DG GROW.C3

 
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European Commission - DG GROW

Unit C3 – Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Systems

BREY 10/181
Avenue d’Auderghem 45
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

+32 2 29 69835
[2][email address]

 

 

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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

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 minutes, correspondence and study on common charger'.

After scrutiny of the documents, I would like to ask for full disclosure of the blackened parts of the documents, in particular in documents "annex 13" and "annex 14". My reading of the documents suggests a potential conflict of interest on behalf of the Centre for European Policy Studies, which is part of the specific contract ("annex 9") but also counts Apple, which indirectly is subject of the study, among its corporate members. It would be helpful to know who signed the Conflict of Interest declaration ("13") and who conducted the evaluation report on behalf of the Commission "14". I argue that therefore the public interest outweighs other concerns preventing disclosure in this case.

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,

Alexander Fanta

ve_sg.accessdoc (SG), Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

[1]Ares(2019)1668931 - FW: Internal review of access to documents request
- Meeting minutes, correspondence and study on common charger

Sent by ve_sg.accessdoc (SG) <[email address]>. All responses have
to be sent to this email address.
Envoyé par ve_sg.accessdoc (SG) <[email address]>. Toutes les
réponses doivent être effectuées à cette adresse électronique.

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 09/03/2019. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on
13/03/2019 under reference number GestDem 2018/6207.

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 03/04/2019. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note
that this is 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 European Commission. For further information
on your rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running that website usually publishes
the content of applicants’ correspondence with the European Commission on
that website. This includes the personal data that you may have
communicated to the European 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 your correspondence with the European Commission to be
published on the AsktheEU.org website, you can provide us with an
alternative, private e-mail address for further correspondence.

In that case, the European Commission will send all future electronic
correspondence addressed to you only to that private address.

Yours faithfully,

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Fanta <[FOI #6108 email]>
Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2019 11:27 AM
To: GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG GROW request email]>
Subject: Internal review of access to documents request - Meeting minutes,
correspondence and study on common charger

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

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 minutes, correspondence and study on
common charger'.

After scrutiny of the documents, I would like to ask for full disclosure
of the blackened parts of the documents, in particular in documents "annex
13" and "annex 14". My reading of the documents suggests a potential
conflict of interest on behalf of the Centre for European Policy Studies,
which is part of the specific contract ("annex 9") but also counts Apple,
which indirectly is subject of the study, among its corporate members. It
would be helpful to know who signed the Conflict of Interest declaration
("13") and who conducted the evaluation report on behalf of the Commission
"14". I argue that therefore the public interest outweighs other concerns
preventing disclosure in this case.

A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the
Internet at this address:
[2]https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/meet...

Yours faithfully,

Alexander Fanta

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[FOI #6108 email]

This message and all replies from Internal Market, Industry,
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Dear Sir,

 

Please find attached an advance information copy of the confirmatory
decision taken on your request for access to documents registered under
Gestdem number 2018/6207, adopted on 28/03/2019 in the above-mentioned
case.

 

Please note that the Secretariat General of the European Commission will
proceed with the formal notification of the decision in the coming days.

 

This advance copy is solely sent for your information and is not the
formal notification of the confirmatory decision.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (GD)

 

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European Commission

Secretariat-General

SG C.1

[2][email address]

 

 

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