Work with Palantir
Dear Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators,
Palantir Technologies, Inc. is a private company supplying products and services.
I am asking for any information related to palantir and its products and services, including
a) meeting records (drafts, memos, invitations, appointments, cancellations) involving Palantir officials and people representing Palantir and their interests
b) correspondence (including within the [Authority name] and with the European institutions concerning Palantir technologies and / or its products and services or the regulatory environment of the EU that affects their products and services. This may include policy papers, consultation input, memoranda or any other form of information.
c) invoices, tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement documents, offers etc. concerning products and services using Palantir Technologies.
Please do not transfer this request to another Autority, this is a request specifically for you. Do not exclude short-lived documents or documents considered to be unimportant under archiving rules.
Please ensure that information that is considered to be excempt for access for this request is not automatically deleted within to make sure that subsequent confirmatory applications and legal appeals as well as Ombudsman office inquiries can still access and assess them.
Yours faithfully,
Mathias Schindler
Dear Mr. Schindler,
We refer to your e-mail dated 8 June 2020, in which you make a request for
access to documents, as reported below.
Unfortunately, your request is generic and does not allow to identify the
requested documents.
I would be grateful if you could specify further the request, namely by
providing more information about the company Palantir Technologies, Inc..
Kind regards,
Stefano Vaona
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Stefano Vaona (Ph.D, LL.M)
Access to Documents Coordinator
European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)
Legal Services
Trg republike 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 (0)8 2004 651
Fax: +386 (0)8 2053 413
E-mail: [2][email address]
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Dear Stefano Vaona,
thank you for your email. You are the first one to claim that this request is too generic.
Information about the company Palantir can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_T...
Palantir has in the past reached out to EU institutions, here is a recent press report about it. https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-pr...
Do these links help you to identify the company in your records?
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
Dear Mr Schindler,
Thank you for your reply.
Your application concerns, inter alia, "Palantir's technologies and / or
its products and services or the regulatory environment of the EU that
affects their products and services".
Please identify the technologies and / or its products and services or the
regulatory environment".
Many thanks and kind regards
Stefano Vaona
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Stefano Vaona (Ph.D, LL.M)
Access to Documents Coordinator
European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)
Legal Services
Trg republike 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 (0)8 2004 651
Fax: +386 (0)8 2053 413
E-mail: [2][email address]
[3]www.acer.europa.eu
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Dear Stefano Vaona,
some products of Palantir are listed at https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregiste..., namely Gotham and Foundry.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
Dear Mr Schindler,
Many thanks for your e-mail. Still, I am sorry but I would need further
clarifications on your application.
Your application concerns, inter alia, "Palantir's technologies and / or
its products and services or the regulatory environment of the EU that
affects their products and services".
In your last e-mail of yesterday 10 June it is referred that "some"
products are listed at this link
https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregiste...,
namely Gotham and Foundry
Please clarify if those indicated in that page are all the products
referred in your application referred above.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Stefano Vaona
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Stefano Vaona (Ph.D, LL.M)
Access to Documents Coordinator
European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)
Legal Services
Trg republike 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 (0)8 2004 651
Fax: +386 (0)8 2053 413
E-mail: [2][email address]
[3]www.acer.europa.eu
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Dear Mr Schindler,
We have not received further information concerning your application for
access to documents since 10 June 2020.
We will therefore proceed with the closure of this application.
Kind regards
Stefano Vaona
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Stefano Vaona (Ph.D, LL.M)
Access to Documents Coordinator
European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)
Legal Services
Trg republike 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 (0)8 2004 651
Fax: +386 (0)8 2053 413
E-mail: [2][email address]
[3]www.acer.europa.eu
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