Text messages between Sinkevičius and Adema

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Dear Environment,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, and Regulation 1367/2006, I am requesting the following information:

All text messages, including WhatsApp-messages related to water quality, manure, renure, farmers, nitrogen, derogation and the National Programme for Rural Areas exchanged between Virginijus Sinkevičius and Piet Adema between the 3rd of October 2022 and the 23rd of August 2024

Since the information might at least partly also concern "activities affecting or likely to affect" the "state of the elements of the environment", I believe Regulation 1367/2006 applies.

Should you encounter any difficulties in interpreting or processing my request, I am ready to discuss ways to clarify or amend it to keep the effort required on your part to the necessary minimum.

Please send me an acknowledgement of receipt for this request, as foreseen by Article 7 (1) of Regulation 1049/2001. I would appreciate it if you could send a list of documents that correspond to my request. Please note I prefer to receive the documents in digital format, not by physical mail. I also kindly request you make and digital files searchable using OCR.

Yours faithfully,

Jan Daalder

Follow the Money
Overtoom 197-1
1054HT Amsterdam
The Netherlands

ENV-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 23/08/2024 and registered on 26/08/2024 under the case number
2024/4422.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 16/09/2024. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.

To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.

Yours faithfully,

Directorate-General for Environment - Access to Documents
European Commission

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ENV-ACCESS-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Hello,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 26 August 2024 under case number EASE 2024/4422.

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 16 September.

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 7 October 2024.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

ENV D1

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Dear Environment,

I am writing concerning my request for access to Commission documents registered on 26 August 2024 under case number EASE 2024/4422 regarding text messages between Mr Sinkevičius and Mr Adema.

On 28 August you extended the deadline to 7 October 2024. This was fine by me. However, I have not heard back from you since. Can you please send me the documents?

Yours faithfully,

Jan Daalder

Dear Environment,

I am writing concerning my request for access to Commission documents registered on 26 August 2024 under case number EASE 2024/4422 regarding text messages between Mr Sinkevičius and Mr Adema.

On 28 August you extended the deadline to 7 October 2024. October 24, 2024 I said I agreed to this extension. However, I have not heard back from you since. Can you please send me the documents? Or can you let me know when I can expect them?

Yours faithfully,

Jan Daalder