Ukraine's membership questionnaire

Alexander Fanta made this access to documents request to Secretariat General of the European Commission

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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 membership questionnaire submitted by the Ukraine on April 8, 2022 to President Von der Leyen, as reported by Reuters on April 18 in the story headlined "Zelenskiy: Ukraine could become EU candidate within weeks"

Yours faithfully,

Alexander Fanta
netzpolitik.org e.V.
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
10119 Berlin
Germany

SG ACCES DOCUMENTS, Secretariat General of the European Commission

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail of 21/04/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
22/04/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/2303.

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

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Alexander Fanta

Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,

thank you for your reply of May 23, in which you refer me to the questionnaire sent by the European Union to the Ukraine on membership. I would like to clarify that I want to request the answers sent by the Ukraine to that very reply.

Yours sincerely,

Alexander Fanta

SG ACCES DOCUMENTS, Secretariat General of the European Commission

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail of 23/05/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
24/05/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/2975.

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 17/06/2022. 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.

Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website
is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data
via that website, and not the Commission.
For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s
privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
the AsktheEU.org website.

If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is
published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can
provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future
electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address,
and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You
should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website
about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply
from, the Commission.

For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
Privacy statement – access to documents.

Yours faithfully,

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

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NEAR-ACCDOC@ec.europa.eu, Secretariat General of the European Commission

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Dear Mr Fanta,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents, initially registered on
24 May 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number .

 

Your application is currently being handled. However, we will not be in a
position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit of 15 working days, which expires today.

 

An extended time limit is needed for the purpose of internal
consultations.

 

Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 8 July 2022.

 

We are confident that we will be able to provide you with a reply shortly.
Again, we apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may
cause and we thank you for your understanding.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

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European Commission
DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations
NEAR Access to Documents

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NEAR-ACCDOC@ec.europa.eu, Secretariat General of the European Commission

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Dear Mr Fanta,

We are afraid that the reply to your request for access to documents has
required longer than usual due to internal consultations. However, it has
been drafted and is pending approval by DG NEAR's hierarchy.

We are confident that you will receive a reply shortly. 

Again, we apologise for the delay and for any inconvenience it may have
caused. 

Yours sincerely,

 

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European Commission
DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations
NEAR Access to Documents

[2][email address]

 

 

 

 

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NEAR-ACCDOC@ec.europa.eu, Secretariat General of the European Commission

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Dear Mr Fanta,

 

Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents,
registered under reference GestDem 2022/2975.

 

According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered post. Please note, however, that due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to
the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice.

 

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present
e-mail by replying to [1][email address]

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Best regards,

 

European Commission

DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations

NEAR Access to Documents

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Dear Mr POPOWSKI,

after receiving your reply I learned that the Ukrainian government has indeed published the full questionnaire including their replies. See:
https://eu-ua.kmu.gov.ua/sites/default/f...
https://eu-ua.kmu.gov.ua/istorii-uspikhu...

This would appear to moot your negative reply.

Yours sincerely,

Alexander Fanta