Phil Hogan's cabinet meetings with religious lobbyists

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Dear DG Agriculture and Rural Development,

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 list of all lobby meetings held by the commissioner in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, or any other member of its Cabinet with any organisations representing churches and/or religious communities since 2014 onwards, including all emails, minutes, reports or any other briefing papers related to all those meetings.

Yours faithfully,

Álvaro Merino
Calle Ricardo Ortiz 61 , 1B.
28017 Madrid.

Agriculture and Rural Development

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 13 March 2019. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 14 March 2019 under reference number GestDem 2019/1554.

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 April 2019. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

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Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team

European Commission
DG Agriculture and Rural Development

Unit I.3
L130 7/96
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

-----Original Message-----
From: Álvaro Merino [mailto:[FOI #6611 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:49 PM
To: AGRI ACCESS DOCUMENTS
Subject: access to documents request - Phil Hogan's cabinet meetings with religious lobbyists

Dear DG Agriculture and Rural Development,

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 list of all lobby meetings held by the commissioner in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, or any other member of its Cabinet with any organisations representing churches and/or religious communities since 2014 onwards, including all emails, minutes, reports or any other briefing papers related to all those meetings.

Yours faithfully,

Álvaro Merino
Calle Ricardo Ortiz 61 , 1B.
28017 Madrid.

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request: [FOI #6611 email]

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Agriculture and Rural Development

Dear Sir,

We refer to your e-mail dated 13/03/2019 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered on 14/03/2019 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 expired on 04/04/2019.

Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days, for administrative reasons and in accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 30/04/2019.

However, I would like to inform you that your will receive our response letter much earlier than the new deadline.

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

Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team
European Commission
DG Agriculture and Rural Development
Unit I.3
L130 7/96
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

-----Original Message-----
From: Álvaro Merino [mailto:[FOI #6611 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:49 PM
To: AGRI ACCESS DOCUMENTS
Subject: access to documents request - Phil Hogan's cabinet meetings with religious lobbyists

Dear DG Agriculture and Rural Development,

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 list of all lobby meetings held by the commissioner in charge of Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, or any other member of its Cabinet with any organisations representing churches and/or religious communities since 2014 onwards, including all emails, minutes, reports or any other briefing papers related to all those meetings.

Yours faithfully,

Álvaro Merino
Calle Ricardo Ortiz 61 , 1B.
28017 Madrid.

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request: [FOI #6611 email]

If [DG AGRI request email] is the wrong address for information requests to Agriculture and Rural Development, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email [email address]

This message and all replies from Agriculture and Rural Development will be published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our dedicated page for EU public officials at https://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers

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1 Attachment

Please find attached document Ares(2019)2744492 from PLEWA Jerzy Bogdan (AGRI) dated 23/04/2019.