Ref. Ares(2020)7043344 - 24/11/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency & Resources
The Director
Brussels
SG.C.1/JK/
By registered mail with AR
Mr Maarten Hillebrandt
University of Helsinki
Faculty of Law
Eric Castrén Institute
Yliopistonkatu 3
00101 Helsinki
Finland
Copy by email:
xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/6440
Dear Mr Hillebrandt,
I refer to your e-mail of 26 October 2020, registered on 27 October 2020, in which you
make a request for access to documents, under the above-mentioned reference number.
1.
SCOPE OF YOUR REQU
EST
You request access to, I quote:
‘The 151st to the 180th final decisions by the European Commission in confirmatory
application procedures under Regulation 1049/2001 issued in 2019’ (hereafter the
‘requested documents’).
In your request, you specified that you request access to the requested documents for the
purposes of academic research. You further added that any personal data is explicitly
excluded from the scope of your request and you agree any related redactions in the
documents. Moreover, you reminded that you were interested in gaining access only to
the documents containing the European Commission decision concerning the
confirmatory application. Thus, the enclosures of the requested documents do not fall
within the scope of your request. You also indicated that wherever the English version of
the requested documents is available, you limit your access request to that version only.
Finally, you referred to the fair solution agreement you and the European Commission
agreed earlier, when your previous and essentially similar requests, had been processed.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
The identified documents falling within the scope of your request, including their
detailed references, are listed in Annex I of this reply.
2.
ASSESSMENT AND CONCLUSIONS UNDER REGULATION (EC) NO 1049/2001
I can inform you that full access is granted to the requested documents.
The personal data, to which you do not request access, have been redacted as they fall
outside of the scope of your request.
3.
MEANS OF REDRESS
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to
make a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon
receipt of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following
address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Unit C.1. ‘Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents’
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels,
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx.
Yours sincerely,
Tatjana Verrier
Director
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Electronically signed on 23/11/2020 15:29 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482
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