Meetings with Dutch authorities on ‘nutrients polluted areas’
Dear Environment,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, and Regulation 1367/2006, I am requesting the following information:
All documents from 2023 – including but not limited to (draft versions of) minutes, (hand-written) notes, audio recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, briefings, e-mails, attachments, letters, text messages, phone call notes, (powerpoint) presentations – related to the designation of the so called ‘nutrients polluted areas’ (in Dutch: ‘nutriënten verontreinigde gebieden’, also called ‘NV-gebieden’).
Context: Dutch authorities requested at least four technical meetings on this topic with the Commission in June, July, September and October 2023. On the 5th of December 2023 Piet Adema, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, informed Dutch Parliament about the NV-gebieden (https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/...).
Since the information might at least partly also concern "activities affecting or likely to affect" the "state of the elements of the environment", I believe Regulation 1367/2006 applies.
Should you encounter any difficulties in interpreting or processing my request, I am ready to discuss ways to clarify or amend it to keep the effort required on your part to the necessary minimum.
Please send me an acknowledgement of receipt for this request, as foreseen by Article 7 (1) of Regulation 1049/2001. I would appreciate it if you could send a list of documents that correspond to my request. Please note I prefer to receive the documents in digital format, not by physical mail. I also kindly request you make and digital files searchable using OCR.
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
Follow the Money
Overtoom 197-1
1054HT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 19/03/2024 and registered on 20/03/2024 under the case number
2024/1541.
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Environment - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Environment,
The new deadline has expired. Can you please let me know when you expect to send me the documents, by the end of this week? Else I will have no option but to request an internal review.
Yours sincerely,
Jan Daalder
Dear Environment,
Regarding my request with case number 2024/1541, regarding the designation of the so called ‘nutrients polluted areas: The deadline has expired and I have not heard back from you. Therefore I am hereby requesting an internal review.
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2024/1541, sent on 26/04/2024 and registered on 26/04/2024.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 22/05/2024. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Dear Environment,
Regarding my confirmatory request with case number 2024/1541, regarding the designation of the so called ‘nutrients polluted areas: The deadline (22/05/2024) has expired and I have not heard back from you. Can you please do so anyway?
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
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Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
Regarding my confirmatory request with case number 2024/1541, regarding the designation of the so called ‘nutrients polluted areas: The deadline (22/05/2024) has expired and after I sent a reminder on July 09, 2024. you wrote to me on July 10, 2024 that ‘ internal consultations in relation to your application are fully ongoing. Therefore, we cannot commit to a specific timeframe within when the decision will be adopted.’
Can you please let me know what the current status of my confirmatory request is?
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
Yours sincerely,
Jan Daalder
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Dear Environment,
Regarding my confirmatory request with case number 2024/1541, regarding the designation of the so called ‘nutrients polluted areas: The deadline (22/05/2024) has expired and after I sent a reminder on July 09, 2024. you wrote to me on July 10, 2024 that ‘ internal consultations in relation to your application are fully ongoing. Therefore, we cannot commit to a specific timeframe within when the decision will be adopted.’
On 7 October I asked for an update on the status of my confirmatory request. This time I did not receive an answer. Can you please give me an update?
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
Dear Environment,
Regarding my confirmatory request with case number 2024/1541, regarding the designation of the so called ‘nutrients polluted areas: The deadline (22/05/2024) has expired long ago, I have sent reminders on July 09 and October 07.
I asked for an update on the status of my confirmatory request on October 24, but did not receive an update. Can you please do so?
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder