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Operation of the Schengen Information System (SIS)

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Friedrich Lindenberg

Dear Migration and Home Affairs,

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:

* Any documents describing the operational environment (servers, operating systems, software, infrastructure) used to operate the Schengen Information System prior to the exit of the UK from the European Union.

* Any documents as above, regarding the period after the exit of the UK from the European Union.

* Any documents describing the technical structure of the data stored in the SIS, such as entity relationship diagrams, database schema definitions etc.

Yours faithfully,

Friedrich Lindenberg, Data Team Lead
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

ve_home.access.to.documents (HOME), Migration and Home Affairs

[1]Ares(2020)378686 - RE: access to documents request - Operation of the
Schengen Information System (SIS)

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Dear Mr. / Mrs,

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:
[2]http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/...

Best regards,

European Commission
DG Migration and Home Affairs
Access to Documents Team

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Friedrich Lindenberg

Dear ve_home.access.to.documents (HOME),

please use the following postal contact to process this request:

Friedrich Lindenberg
c/o OnionSpace
Gottschedstr. 4
13357 Berlin

I would request an electronic response if at all possible, otherwise I would like you to include a written explanation for why an electronic response is not possible.

Yours sincerely,

Friedrich Lindenberg

ve_home.access.to.documents (HOME), Migration and Home Affairs

[1]Ares(2020)586962 - your access to documents request - reference number
GestDem 2020/0555.

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Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 21/01/2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered under
reference number GestDem 2020/0555.

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
20/02/2020. 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,

European Commission
DG Migration and Home Affairs
Access to Documents Team

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Friedrich Lindenberg

Dear ve_home.access.to.documents (HOME),

I am aware of how the AskTheEU web site works, that's why I am using it. Please proceed by responding to my request.

Yours sincerely,

Friedrich Lindenberg

ve_home.b.3 (HOME), Migration and Home Affairs

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[5]Ares(2020)887444 - Holding reply to your access to documents request
GEST DEM 2020/0555

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Dear Sir,

 

Subject:             Your application for access to documents – Ref
GestDem No 2020/0555

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 21 January 2020 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on the same day 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 20 February 2020.

An extended time limit is needed as your application concerns documents
held by different services which must be consulted.

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 12 March 2020.

 

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

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Mr GABRIELE PUCCIANTI
Smart Borders and Interoperability sector

Policy Assistant
 
European Commission
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs

Unit B3 - Information Systems for Borders, Migration and Security

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ve_home.b.3(HOME), Migration and Home Affairs

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Dear Mr Lindenberg,

Please find attached reply to your above referenced access to documents request.

Kind regards

Gabriele Puccianti
DG HOME B3

Friedrich Lindenberg

Dear ve_home.b.3(HOME),

many thanks for your response to my request dated 21. January 2020. I must admit that I am confused by your response. Please allow me, therefore, to ask the following questions in an attempt to clarify. If helpful, please consider this a new request under the conditions of 1049:

* The Commission web site states that DG HOME is responsible for the operation of the SIS (see: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-w...). Is the information published there incorrect?

* If DG HOME is in any fashion involved in the operation of the SIS, can you describe the relationship between DG HOME and the SIS, and/or provide any information and documents that describes that relationship?

* If DG HOME is the DG responsible for the operation of the SIS, can you explain how it is possible that it maintains the system without any written documentation (such as the material requested in my previous request)? Can you provide any policies for the operation of IT systems within DG HOME, in particular where they state that no written documentation is produced?

* I would like you to include in this new request any postal or email communications between DG HOME and the UK government related to the SIS and the exit of the UK from the European Union. Further include any communication between DG HOME and any IT service providers (privately owned or otherwise) regarding the same topic.

I expect your response within the next 15 days and request that you involve the EU Ombudsman in this case should you not be able to meet this timeline.

Yours sincerely,

Friedrich Lindenberg

ve_home.access.to.documents (HOME), Migration and Home Affairs

[1]Ares(2020)1501719 - your application for access to documents, gestdem
ref 2020/1458

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Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 10/03/2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered under
reference number GestDem 2020/1458.

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
1/04/2020. 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.

Kind regards,

European Commission
DG Migration and Home Affairs
Access to Documents Team

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ve_home.b.3 (HOME), Migration and Home Affairs

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Link: [4]colorSchemeMapping

[5]Ares(2020)1832915 - Holding reply_Internal review of access to
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Dear Sir,

Subject:      Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2020/1458

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 10 March 2020, registered on 11 March 2020
under a new access to document request with the number 2020/1458.

 

With this email you request clarifications and additional documents
concerning your previous access to document request number 2020/0555, to
which you received reply on 6 March 2020 (Ares(2020)1409894).

 

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 1 April 2020.

An extended time limit is needed as your application concerns documents
held by different services which must be consulted.

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 27 April 2020.

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

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Mr GABRIELE PUCCIANTI
Smart Borders and Interoperability sector

Policy Assistant
 
European Commission
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs

Unit B3 - Information Systems for Borders, Migration and Security

Rue du Luxembourg 46

Office 01/57

B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

 

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[5]Ares(2020)2205347 - Holding reply (II)_Internal review of access to
documents request Gestdem 2020/1458

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Dear Sir,

Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2020/1458

 

We refer to your access to document request registered on 11 March 2020
with the number 2020/1458 to which we sent a first holding reply on 30
March (Ares(2020)1832815) extending the time limit to answer to 27 April
2020.

 

Your application is currently being handled.

However, with this email we inform you that it will not be possible to
reply to your request by the set deadline given its complexity and the
number of documents to be reviewed, which substantially enlarge the scope
of your original request.

We continue working on your request and will reply to you as soon as
possible.

We shall also keep you regularly informed.

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

Yours sincerely,

Mr GABRIELE PUCCIANTI
Smart Borders and Interoperability sector

Policy Assistant
 
European Commission
Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs

Unit B3 - Information Systems for Borders, Migration and Security

Rue du Luxembourg 46

Office 01/57

B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

 

 

 

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ve_home.b.3(HOME), Migration and Home Affairs

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Dear Mr Lindenberg,

Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents, registered under reference GestDem 2020/1458.

According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also sent to you by registered post. Please note, however, that due to the extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to 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 [email address]

Best regards
Gabriele Puccianti
DG HOME B3

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