The 1st-40th Commission replies to confirmatory applications issued in 2020

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Maarten Hillebrandt

Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,

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:

The 1st to the 30th final decisions by the European Commission in confirmatory application procedures under Regulation 1049/2001 issued in 2020. (An initial request for access to documents of this category produced in 2019 was already made in previous requests.)

The purpose for my request is academic research.

As with my previous highly similar request, explicitly excluded from my request are:

- Any personal data contained in these decision documents - which means that the Commission need not spend any time contacting third parties, and that I agree to the Commission pre-emptively suppressing the contents of any such sections.
- Any related documents - I am exclusively interested in the documents issuing decisions and the legal justification contained therein.

Moreover, where English-language versions of the documents are available, I seek access merely to the version in that language.

Since the current request is nearly identical in scope to my previous requests, I trust that no search for a fair solution procedure will be needed, so that the request can be handled in the shortest possible time frame.

In case any of the documents included in my request were already proactively published, I kindly request you to refer me to the precise URL at which they can be located.

My postal address is:

Dr. Maarten Hillebrandt
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Law
Eric Castrén Institute
Yliopistonkatu 3
00101 Helsinki
Finland

Although I kindly request you to send all relevant documents also in digital form to my email address: [email address].

Yours faithfully,
Maarten Hillebrandt

Sg-Acc-Doc@ec.europa.eu, Secretariat General of the European Commission

Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
 
 
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ve_sg.accessdoc (SG), Secretariat General of the European Commission

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Commission replies to confirmatory applications issued in 2020 --- Ref.
Gestdem 2021/293

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Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail of 18/01/2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
18/01/2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/293.

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 08/02/2021. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union.
Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any
technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

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Yours faithfully,

Access to documents team (cr)
SG.C.1
Transparency

-----Original Message-----
From: Maarten Hillebrandt <[FOI #8946 email]>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:36 AM
To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: access to documents request - The 1st-40th Commission replies to
confirmatory applications issued in 2020

Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,

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:

The 1st to the 30th final decisions by the European Commission in
confirmatory application procedures under Regulation 1049/2001 issued in
2020. (An initial request for access to documents of this category
produced in 2019 was already made in previous requests.)

The purpose for my request is academic research.

As with my previous highly similar request, explicitly excluded from my
request are:

- Any personal data contained in these decision documents - which means
that the Commission need not spend any time contacting third parties, and
that I agree to the Commission pre-emptively suppressing the contents of
any such sections.
- Any related documents - I am exclusively interested in the documents
issuing decisions and the legal justification contained therein.

Moreover, where English-language versions of the documents are available,
I seek access merely to the version in that language.

Since the current request is nearly identical in scope to my previous
requests, I trust that no search for a fair solution procedure will be
needed, so that the request can be handled in the shortest possible time
frame.

In case any of the documents included in my request were already
proactively published, I kindly request you to refer me to the precise URL
at which they can be located.

My postal address is:

Dr. Maarten Hillebrandt
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Law
Eric Castrén Institute
Yliopistonkatu 3
00101 Helsinki
Finland

Although I kindly request you to send all relevant documents also in
digital form to my email address: [email address].

Yours faithfully,
Maarten Hillebrandt

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[5]Ares(2021)1128407 - Your request for access to documents GESTDEM
2021/0293

Sent by ve_sg.accessdoc (SG) <[SG request email]>. All responses have
to be sent to this email address.
Envoyé par ve_sg.accessdoc (SG) <[SG request email]>. Toutes les
réponses doivent être effectuées à cette adresse électronique.

Dear Mr Hillebrandt,

We refer to your email of 18 January 2021 in which you submit a request
for access to documents, registered on the same day, under the above
mentioned reference number.

Your application in currently being handled. Unfortunately, we have not
yet been able to gather all the elements required to carry out a full
analysis of your request in order to take a decision.

Therefore, we regret to inform you hereby that we will not be in a
position to reply to your request within the prescribed time limit of 15
working days which expired on 8 February 2021. Consequently, we need to
extend this limit by another 15 working days. The new deadline expires on
1 March 2021.

We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. We
would like to reassure you that we will do our utmost to provide you with
a reply as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

María OLIVÁN AVILÉS
Head of Unit

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European Commission

Secretariat General

Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)

 

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