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Elaine Girvan made this access to documents request to Health and Food Safety

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Dear Health and Food Safety,

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:

minutes/notes of the following meetings (and related lobbying materials, e.g. accompanying slides, briefings, reports etc):

Arla Foods amba, Annukka Ojala and Karolina Herbout-Borczak, Cabinet members of Stella; Kyriakides Health 16/03/22 Brussels, Sustainable Food Systems

European Dairy Association (EDA), Annukka Ojala and Karolina Herbout-Borczak, Cabinet members of Stella; Kyriakides 27/04/21 Brussels, VTC Meeting on Farm to Fork Strategy and labelling initiatives

European Dairy Association (EDA), Annukka Ojala, Cabinet member of Stella Kyriakides Health 23/01/20 BRUSSELS, FARM TO FORK

COPA COGECA, Annukka Ojala, Cabinet member of Stella Kyriakides 08/02/23 Brussels, Framework on Sustainable Food Systems (FSFS)

COPA COGECA, Annukka Ojala and Karolina Herbout-Borczak, Cabinet members of Stella; Kyriakides 27/09/22 Brussels, VTC meeting: Revision of food labelling rules

COPA, Sandra Gallina (Director-General) 28/10/21 Brussels, Farm to Fork Strategy
FoodDrinkEurope Ralf Kuhne, Cabinet member of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides 08/11/22 Bruxelles VTC meeting on food packaging

CLITRAVI, Annukka Ojala and Ines Prainsack, Cabinet members of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides 27/01/21 Brussels, VC Meeting - Sustainable Food Systems

Animal Task Force, Panayiotis Pourgourides and Ines Prainsack, Cabinet members of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides 13/11/20 Virtual meeting, Exchange of views with the Animal Task Force on Farm to Fork, sustainable livestock systems, latest innovations and scientific finding as well as international partnerships.

UECBV, Annukka Ojala, Cabinet member of Stella Kyriakides; Ines Prainsack, Cabinet member of Stella Kyriakides 09/11/20 Brussels, VC Meeting - Farm to Fork Strategy and Animal Health

Yours faithfully,

Elaine Girvan
Finance and Admin Director
Changing Markets
Newtonlaan 115
3584 BH
Utrecht
Netherlands

SANTE-ACCESS-TO-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 24/04/2023 and registered on 24/04/2023 under the case number
2023/2375.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 17/05/2023. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.

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Yours faithfully,

Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety - Access to Documents
European Commission

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SANTE-ACCESS-TO-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Hello,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 24 April 2023 under case number 2023/2375.

We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 17 may 2023.

An extended time limit is needed due to internal consultations and a
thorough analysis of your request.

Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 12 June 2023.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

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Dear Health and Food Safety,

In your email of 16 May 2023, you noted that you needed to extend the time limit to handle my request EASE 2023/2375 by 15 additional working days, and that the new time limit expires on 12 June 2023.

It is now 20 June - ie the extended time limit expired more than one week ago - and I have not yet received your reply to my request. I'd therefore like to politely request that you send me the documents that my request pertains to with all possible haste, as I should, by law, have already received them.

If for any reason you are unable to send me these documents, I would kindly ask for an explanation of under what legal provision this delay beyond the 15+15 working days is justified.

Yours faithfully,

Elaine Girvan

SANTE-ACCESS-TO-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Health and Food Safety

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Dear Ms Girvan,

 

Thank you for your email regarding your request for access to documents.

 

We acknowledge that the time limit expired on 9 June 2023 and apologize
for the delay.

 

The assessment/consultation of the documents falling within the scope of
your request required more time due to the fact that the application
concerns documents held by different Services which must be consulted.

 

We would like to inform you that your request is being handled.

 

Please be reassured that we are doing our utmost to provide you with the
reply as soon as possible.

 

Thank you very much for your understanding.

 

Best regards,

 

 

SANTE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS

European Commission
Health and Food Safety

 

 

Dear [email address],

In your email of 21 June 2023, you acknowledged that the time limit for handling my request 2023/2375 expired on 9 June 2023, and you notified me that you would provide me with the reply as soon as possible.

As another 2.5 weeks have passed since then, I would like to once again urge you to send the reply to my resquest with all possible haste, since it is now more than one month past the maximum legal time limit for handling an access to documents request. If you are still unable to do so, please can you give me an update on when I can expect your response.

Yours sincerely,

Elaine Girvan

SANTE-ACCESS-TO-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

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Dear Ms Girvan,

Please find attached a corresondence in repy to your request for access to
documents registered under the abovementioned reference number.

According to the standard operational procedure, the reply is sent by
e-mail only. We would therefore appreciate if you could explicitly confirm
receipt of the e-mail within 5 working days by replying to
[DG SANTE request email].

Kind regards,

SANTE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS