Recovery of penalties imposed on Poland under the Treaties

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Dear Budget,

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:

1. When will be the next payments due paid to Poland?

2. What will be the amount of payments due paid to Poland?

3. Will the penalty payments imposed by the order of the CJEU in case C‑121/21 R be deducted from the next payments due to Poland?

4. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, what will be the legal basis for the set-off?

5. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, what will be the amount of interest deducted from the payments due to Poland?

6. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, from which policies and from which EU funds will the penalty payments be deducted?

Yours faithfully,
Hubert Smoliński

BUDG-acces-documents@ec.europa.eu, Budget

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Dear Sir,

 

Thank you for your two e-mails of 29 November 2021. Unfortunately, due to
a technical error your request was processed and registered only today. We
hereby acknowledge receipt of your applications for access to documents,
which was registered on 10 December 2021 under the reference
Ares(2021)7650728.

 

As your two emails are identic, this reply covers also your application
sent from the email address: [1][email address] .

 

In your application, you ask the European Commission to provide you with
the following information:

 

 1. When will be the next payments due paid to Poland?
 2. What will be the amount of payments due paid to Poland?
 3. Will the penalty payments imposed by the order of the CJEU in case C
121/21 R be deducted from the next payments due to Poland?
 4. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, what will be the legal
basis for the set-off?
 5. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, what will be the amount of
interest deducted from the payments due to Poland?
 6. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, from which policies and
from which EU funds will the penalty payments be deducted?

 

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

From: Hubert Smoliński <[5][FOI #10290 email]>

Sent: Monday, November 29, 2021 12:20 PM

To: BUDG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[6][DG BUDG request email]>

Subject: access to documents request - Recovery of penalties imposed on
Poland under the Treaties

 

Dear Budget,

 

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:

 

1. When will be the next payments due paid to Poland?

 

2. What will be the amount of payments due paid to Poland?

 

3. Will the penalty payments imposed by the order of the CJEU in case
C‑121/21 R be deducted from the next payments due to Poland?

 

4. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, what will be the legal
basis for the set-off?

 

5. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, what will be the amount of
interest deducted from the payments due to Poland?

 

6. If the answer to question 3 is affirmative, from which policies and
from which EU funds will the penalty payments be deducted?

 

Yours faithfully,

Hubert Smoliński

 

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Dear DG Budget Access to Documents team,

Thank you for your reply.

As far as I understood, my request has not been rejected, but will be dealt with under Article 22 of the Code of Good Administrative Behaviour? If this is correct, when can I expect answers to my questions at the latest?

Yours sincerely,
Hubert Smoliński