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Mathias Schindler made this access to documents request to European Securities and Markets Authority as part of a batch sent to 139 authorities
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Dear European Securities and Markets Authority,
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 acknowledge receipt of your message.
With apologies for the late reply, kindly be informed that your request has reached the Access to Documents Team after the expiry of the 15-day deadline within which ESMA should reply to initial applications.
We are exploring the issue internally in order to reply to your request as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Chrysi
Dear Mr Schindler,
We would like to refer to the request for access to documents you sent to
ESMA in which you asked to get access to "[…] any information related to
Palantir and its products and services, including:
1. meeting records (drafts, memos, invitations, appointments,
cancellations) involving Palantir officials and people representing
Palantir and their interests
2. 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.
3. invoices, tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement
documents, offers etc. concerning products and services using Palantir
Technologies.”
First, we would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused due to the
lack of response to your initial request dated 08 June 2020. Please rest
assured that actions have been taken to prevent such a situation from
recurring.
In relation to the content of your request, further to a research
performed on our databases as well as after having double-checked with the
relevant Departments within ESMA, we would like to let you know that ESMA
does not possess any document falling within the scope of your request
below and has not signed any contract with Palantir.
In this respect we would like to draw your attention to Article 2(3) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 according to which the right of access as
defined therein applies only to existing documents in the possession of
the institution.
We trust that this addresses your request in full.
With kind regards
Enrico Gagliardi