Meetings & correspondence about the TRIPS waiver

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Sarah Anne Aarup

Dear DG Trade,

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:

(i) a list of meetings of DG Trade officials and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and his Cabinet) and representatives of Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, GSK, Sanofi, or Merck since 1 September 2020.

(ii) minutes and any other records of these meetings;

(iii) all correspondence (including emails) between DG Trade officials and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and Cabinet) and representatives of the companies listed above since 1 September 2020 regarding intellectual property, patents, or the proposed TRIPS waiver at the WTO. Please include all correspondence in which these topics are mentioned, even if they are not the main topic of the correspondence.

Yours faithfully,
Sarah Anne Aarup

TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS, Trade

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Dear Ms Aarup,

Thank you for your request for access to documents.

Unfortunately, you have not indicated your postal address.

However, this is necessary 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.

Alternatively, you may use directly the electronic form available on the
Europa website:

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Yours faithfully/sincerely,

DG TRADE Access to Documents Team

European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
CHAR
1049 Brussels
Belgium

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Dear DG TRADE Access to Documents Team,

My postal address is POLITICO, Rue de la Loi 62, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium.

Yours sincerely,
Sarah Anne Aarup

TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS, Trade

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[5]RE: GestDem 2022/4431 - access to documents request - Meetings &
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Dear Ms Aarup,

 

Thank you for your e-mail of 29 July 2022.

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 3 August 2022 under reference number GestDem
2022/4431, after you provided us with your postal address on the same day.

 

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 25 August 2022.

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 sincerely,

 

DG TRADE Access to Documents Team

European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
CHAR
1049 Brussels
Belgium

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Dear Madam,

We refer to your e-mail of 29 July 2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 3 August 2022 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 25 August 2022.

An extended time limit is needed in order to allow services to locate the
documents in question.

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 15 September
2022.

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

Yours faithfully,

DG TRADE Access to Documents Team

European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
CHAR
1049 Brussels
Belgium

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Dear Madam,

 

We refer to your e-mail of  29 July 2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 3 August 2022 under the above mentioned
reference number.

We would like to inform you that we are in process of finalizing our reply
and that we will complete the handling of your application in a few days.

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

 

Yours faithfully,

DG TRADE Access to Documents Team

European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
CHAR
1049 Brussels
Belgium

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Dear [email address],

I'm disappointed by the double delay. Can you please clarify when you'll send the documents over? When you say "a couple of days," I assume that means that you'll send them to me by Monday, Sept 19 at the very latest?

Yours sincerely,

Sarah Anne Aarup

TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Trade

Dear Ms Aarup,

We apologize for the additional delay. The reply will probably not be ready today but we are doing our very best to process this quickly.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Kind regards,

Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE

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Dear DG TRADE Access to Documents Team,

Thanks for your message. Can you please tell me by when you'll be sending a reply? If there's no clarity on the deadline by which you'll send me a response, I'm afraid that I'll have to raise this with the Ombudswoman's office, as this is the third time that you're delaying the documents release.

Kind regards,

Sarah Anne Aarup

Dear Transparency, Civil Society and Communication Team,

I want to follow up since I've been waiting for the freedom of information documents since August 3, meaning that a response is long overdue by now.

In your latest message to me dated September 15, you wrote that "We would like to inform you that we are in process of finalizing our reply and that we will complete the handling of your application in a few days."

Can you please give me an update about your precise timeline so I know when to expect the documents? I really don't want to have to go to the Ombudswoman.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah Anne Aarup

FURFARI Laura (TRADE), Trade

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