Supporters of Coalition for Life and Family
Dear European Parliament,
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:
Application of Coalition for Life and Family/Coalition pour la Vie et la Famille for a grant as political party on European level.
In case personal data protected under Regulation No 45/2001 are involved, I ask for an anonymised version.
Yours faithfully,
Volker Schmid
OUR REF: A(2016)15672
Dear Mr Schmid,
Parliament acknowledges receipt of your request. You will receive a reply within 15 working days. Please note that Parliament's administration is closed from 23 December 2016 to 2 January 2017 (both included).
Best regards,
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate General for the Presidency
Directorate for Inter-Institutional Affairs
and Legislative Coordination
Public Register webpage
Our reference: A(2016)15672 – request for postal address
Dear Mr Schmid,
A decision regarding your application for public access to documents is
being taken.
In accordance with Article 8(3) of the European Parliament's Bureau
Decision of 28 November 2001 (OJ C 216, 22.7.2011, p. 19), you are kindly
invited to provide us with your postal address with a view to permitting
Parliament to duly communicate the decision to you.
Indeed, pursuant to Article 297(2) (3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of
the European Union, notification by registered letter is required in order
to ensure legal certainty as regards due notification of Parliament's
decision.
Parliament will not be in a position to notify the reply to you until such
time as you provide a postal address for notification.
Best regards,
[1]LOGO_EP TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate General for the
Presidency
Directorate for
Inter-Institutional Affairs
and Legislative Coordination
[2]Public Register webpage
[3][email address]
References
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2. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegWeb/app...
3. mailto:[email address]
Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
According to Regulation 1049/2001 the applicant simply has to make a written request in any form, including electronic form. There is no further requirement to give any personal details nor to state reasons for the request. Article 6.1 of the Regulation says "Applications for access to a document shall be made in any written form, including electronic form, in one of the languages referred to in Article 314 of the EC Treaty and in a sufficiently precise manner to enable the institution to identify the document. The applicant is not obliged to state reasons for the application."
I therefore ask you to answer my request without the need for my postal address.
Yours sincerely,
Volker Schmid
Our Reference: A(2016)15672/en/jb
Dear Mr Schmid,
On 15 December 2016, the European Parliament received from you a request
for public access to CLF's 2017 grant application (referenced above).
Parliament’s administration was closed from 23 December 2016 to 2 January
2017 (both included). The 15 working days deadline for replying to your
application, as provided for in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
expires today, 16 January 2017. The consultations with the competent
services of the Parliament are still ongoing however. Therefore the time
limit for handling your application has to be extended by a further 15
working days as provided for by Article 7(2) of the same Regulation. We
apologize for any inconvenience.
Kind regards,
[1]LOGO_EP TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate General for the
Presidency
Directorate for
Inter-Institutional Affairs
and Legislative Coordination
[2]Public Register webpage
[3][email address]
References
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3. mailto:[email address]
Dear European Parliament,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Supporters of Coalition for Life and Family'.
My request has not been answered promptly or in the 15 working days deadline as provided for in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/supp...
Yours faithfully,
Volker Schmid
Our reference: A(2016)15672
Dear Mr Schmid,
This mail concerns your request for public access to the grant application
of the Coalition for Life and Family, with reference number A(2016)15672
(the request).
First, the Transparency Unit notes that you have submitted a confirmatory
application in relation the request today. The time limit for Parliament
to respond was however extended by 15 working days on 16 January 2017
under Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. The deadline to reply
is therefore 6 February 2017. You are informed that since the deadline
has not expired Parliament cannot consider that confirmatory application
to be valid.
Second, the decision regarding the request has in fact now been adopted
and is to be notified to you. However, as you have already been informed,
your postal address is required to proceed with the notification.
Article 297 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
provides that ‘[...] decisions which specify to whom they are addressed
shall be notified to those to whom they are addressed and shall take
effect upon such notification’.
In the present case, the notification of the decision will trigger the
possibility of an administrative redress under Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001. The notification will indeed mark the start of the
15-working-day time limit to apply for Parliament to reconsider its
position under Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
The only way available to Parliament to establish with legal certainty
that the decision notification has taken place, as well as its date, is to
notify the decision to you via registered mail. Your sending us of your
postal address is therefore necessary to follow the procedure set out in
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
Hence, with a view to permitting Parliament to duly notify this decision
to you, you are kindly invited, again, to send us your postal address, as
is also provided for by Article 8(3) of the Bureau Decision of 28 November
2001 (OJ C 216, 22.7.2011, p. 19).
As is stated on the European Parliament’s webpage on access to documents,
the information will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No
45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of
personal data by the Community institutions and bodies.
Your postal address may be sent confidentially to the following address:
[1]AccesDocs[at]ep.europa.eu or via Parliament’s dedicated public register
webpage:
[2]https://www.secure.europarl.europa.eu/Re....
Until reception of this information, Parliament is not in a position
to further process request A(2016)15672. Such processing requires your
due collaboration. The administrative procedure is therefore suspended for
the time being. In the absence of any answer within 20 working days, your
application will be considered withdrawn and the file closed.
We look forward to reading from you.
Sincerely,
[3]LOGO_EP TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate General for the
Presidency
Directorate for
Inter-Institutional Affairs
and Legislative Coordination
[4]Public Register webpage
[5][email address]
References
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1. mailto:[email address]
2. https://www.secure.europarl.europa.eu/Re...
4. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegWeb/app...
5. mailto:[email address]