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Dear [Authority name],

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) Meeting records (emails, minutes, reports, briefing papers, drafts, memos...) involving Huawei officials and/or people representing Huawei's interests.

b) Correspondence within your personnel and/or the European institutions concerning Huawei, its products and its services.

c) Invoices, tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement documents, offers, etc. concerning products and services using Huawei services.

Please do not transfer this request to another autority, this is a request specifically for you. Do not exclude short-lived documents or documents considered to be unimportant under archiving rules.

Yours faithfully,

Álvaro Merino

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Mr Merino,
 
Thank you for your request for access to documents.
 
Unfortunately, you have not indicated your postal address. 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:
[1]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/01 – Coordination and Planning
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Álvaro Merino <[Dirección de correo de la solicitud #8341]>
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 5:49 PM
To: GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS <[Dirección de correo del organismo DG GROW]>
Subject: solicitud acceso a documentos - Meetings with Huawei
 
Dear [Authority name],
 
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) Meeting records (emails, minutes, reports, briefing papers, drafts,
memos...) involving Huawei officials and/or people representing Huawei's
interests.
 
b) Correspondence within your personnel and/or the European institutions
concerning Huawei, its products and its services.
 
c) Invoices, tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement
documents, offers, etc. concerning products and services using Huawei
services.
 
Please do not transfer this request to another autority, this is a request
specifically for you. Do not exclude short-lived documents or documents
considered to be unimportant under archiving rules.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Álvaro Merino
 
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Estimado Mercado Interno, Industria, Emprendimiento y PYMEs,

Calle Jesús Goldero, 19, 1º,
28045 Madrid.

Un saludo,

Álvaro Merino

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Mr Merino,

 

Thank you for your e-mail of 10/07/2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
13/07/2020 under reference number GESTDEM 2020/4249.

 

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
04/08/2020. 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 AsktheEU.org 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
[1]https://ec.europa.eu/info/principles-and...

 

Yours sincerely,

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

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European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning

 

 

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Dear Mr Merino,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 13/07/2020
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 on the documents that you seek to obtain.  Could you please
let us know the timeframe you are interested in?

 

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, 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,

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

 

[1]cid:479385507@17082012-2045

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG  GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning

 

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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

I am interested in documents redacted from 2010 onwards.

Yours faithfully,

Álvaro Merino

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Mr Merino,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 13/07/2020
under the above-mentioned reference number.

 

Thank you for your clarification on the expected timeframe.

 

Considering the large scope of your request, we would appreciate if you
could give us more details on the content of the documents that you seek
to obtain.  Could you please clarify if the meetings and correspondences
you are interested in are related to the third point of your request i.e.
Invoices, tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement
documents, offers, etc. concerning products and services using Huawei
services.?

 

We also would like to inform you that we’ll only consider documents for
which the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry,
Entrepreneurship and SMEs is responsible.

 

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, 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,

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

 

[1]cid:479385507@17082012-2045

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG  GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning

 

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Dear Mr Merino,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 13/07/2020
under the above-mentioned reference number.

 

This is a kind reminder regarding our clarification request sent on 16
July 2020.

 

We would be grateful if you could specify which are the meetings and
correspondences you are interested in and, in particular, if those
meetings are related to tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders,
procurement documents, offers, etc. concerning products and services using
Huawei services.

 

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 again when we receive the requested
clarifications.

 

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

 

Kind regards,

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

 

European Commission

Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs

DG  GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning

 

 

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

I consider my request was concrete enough to start processing it once I submitted it. I specified three different and independent approaches to the search of documents.

Only in the last part I refer to tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement documents, offers, etc. concerning products and services using Huawei services. In the rest of the request, please understand I include any kind of correspondence and meetings involving Huawei.

It is a particular entity and I limited the scope of the request with regard to the time limits. Please, proceed to handle my request.

Yours faithfully,

Álvaro Merino

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Dear Mr Merino,

Thank you very much for your reply to our clarification request.

In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the deadline of 15 working days for handling your application will start running today, on 03/08/2020. The time limit will expire on 24/08/2020. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours sincerely,
GROW ATD team

-----Original Message-----
From: Álvaro Merino <[FOI #8341 email]>
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2020 9:48 AM
To: GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG GROW request email]>
Subject: RE: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No 2020/4249

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

I consider my request was concrete enough to start processing it once I submitted it. I specified three different and independent approaches to the search of documents.

Only in the last part I refer to tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement documents, offers, etc. concerning products and services using Huawei services. In the rest of the request, please understand I include any kind of correspondence and meetings involving Huawei.

It is a particular entity and I limited the scope of the request with regard to the time limits. Please, proceed to handle my request.

Yours faithfully,

Álvaro Merino

-----Original Message-----

Dear Mr Merino,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 13/07/2020
under the above-mentioned reference number.

 

This is a kind reminder regarding our clarification request sent on 16
July 2020.

 

We would be grateful if you could specify which are the meetings and
correspondences you are interested in and, in particular, if those
meetings are related to tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders,
procurement documents, offers, etc. concerning products and services using
Huawei services.

 

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 again when we receive the requested
clarifications.

 

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

 

Kind regards,

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

 

European Commission

Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs

DG  GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning

 

 

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Dear Mr Merino,

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 09/07/2020 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 03/08/2020 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 today (24/08/2020).

 

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 14/09/2020.

 

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

 

Yours sincerely,

 

DG GROW – Access to documents team

 

[1]cid:479385507@17082012-2045

European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG  GROW/01 – Coordination and Planning

 

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Dear Mr Merino,

We refer to your e-mail dated 09/07/2020 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 03/08/2020 under 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 (14/09/2020).
Please be reassured that we are doing our best to be able to send you the
reply as soon as possible.

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

Kind regards,

GROW Access to Documents team

Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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Dear Mr Merino,

 

Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents
registered under GestDem 2020/4249.

 

According to the standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered mail. Please note, however, that due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during the
COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice.

 

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present
e-mail by replying to [1][DG GROW request email].

 

Due to the fact that the Annexes are too large, we will send them in 2
emails. The second one will follow.

 

Kind regards,

GROW Access to documents team

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2nd part of Annexes

 

From: GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG GROW request email]>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 6:57 PM
To: 'Álvaro Merino' <[FOI #8341 email]>
Cc: GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG GROW request email]>
Subject: RE: [Re] solicitud acceso a documentos - Meetings with Huawei
(GestDem 2020/4249) with 1st part of Annexes

 

Dear Mr Merino,

 

Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents
registered under GestDem 2020/4249.

 

According to the standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered mail. Please note, however, that due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during the
COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice.

 

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present
e-mail by replying to [1][DG GROW request email].

 

Due to the fact that the Annexes are too large, we will send them in 2
emails. The second one will follow.

 

Kind regards,

GROW Access to documents team

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