Meetings with stakeholders
Dear DG Trade,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents related to the following meetings:
From Director-General Weyland:
• 03/10/19 American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) -EU-US Trade
• 27/06/2019 McLarty Associates - EU-US Relations
• 31/10/2019 DIGITALEUROPE (DE) - Digital issues, US-China trade
• 31/03/2020 Centre for European Reform (CER) - EU's trade policy fit in the 21st century
From former European Commissioner Hogan:
• 11/12/19 - IBM Corporation (IBM) Presentation of IBM’s point of view on digital trade and the priorities of the new Commission
• 16/10/2019 - Airbnb Ireland UC RURAL TOURISM
• 23/01/2020 - Apple Inc. Trade Issues
• 22/01/2020 - VMware International Unlimited Company Trade Issues
• 21/01/2020 - Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco) Trade Issues
• 04/02/20 - DIGITALEUROPE (DE) Trade Issues
• 29/04/2020 - American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) Trade issues
• 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Trade Issues
• 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Trade Issues
• 07/05/20 . Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e. V. (Bitkom) Digital Trade. Covid -19
• 30/06/2020 - Microsoft Corporation - Trade issues
In particular I am looking for:
- all agendas for each of these meetings;
- any record of the aforementioned meetings. This may include, but not necessarily be limited to, minutes of the meetings, verbatim reports of the meetings, transcripts etc, that would provide a record of the proceedings of the meetings;
- all documents prepared or received for the purpose of these meetings and/or distributed among the attendees before or during the course of these meetings (such as – but not limited to – handouts, leaflets, briefings or background notes).
- all correspondence sent or received in preparation for these meetings and/or in order to arrange these meetings, including all attachments
- all documents prepared or received with regards to and/or as a follow up to these meetings; and
- all correspondence sent or received with regards to and/or as a follow up to these meetings, including all attachments.
Yours faithfully,
Margarida da Silva
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d'edimbourg 26
1050 Belgique
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your e-mail of 28 April 2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 30 April 2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/2824.
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Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
DG TRADE
Dear Madam,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered under above
mentioned number.
Your application is currently being processed. However, the handling of
your application has taken more time than planned and 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.
In order to finalize the response to your request, 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 16 June 2021.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
Dear Ms da Silva,
Your file is currently being processed and we will be able to respond to
your request shortly.
Before finalising the list of documents related to your request, I would
be grateful if you could clarify the following:
In your request you have asked for:
'- all correspondence sent or received in preparation for these meetings
and/or in order to arrange these meetings, including all attachments'.
We would like to be sure that you are looking for correspondence on
substance and not for messages between the concerned secretariats covering
logistical aspects in setting up meetings. Grateful for your clarification
on this point.
Kind regards,
Access to documents team DG TRADE
Dear [email address],
Thank you for getting in touch and asking for clarification. Indeed, you do not have to include emails that were entirely of logistic nature. Though I consider emails and correspondence where the topics of the discussion were agreed to be of substance.
Please do let me know if this is not clear.
Yours sincerely,
Margarida da Silva
Dear Mrs. Da Silva,
Please find attached our reply to your request GESTDEM 2021/2824.
According to our standard operational procedure, you would have also
received the letter by registered mail. However, due to the extraordinary
health and security measures currently in force during to the COVID-19
epidemic, which requires all Commission’s 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 TRADE request email] .
Kind regards
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
[2][DG TRADE request email]
CHAR
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
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