Access to documents request: 2022-06-16 meeting between Olivér Várhelyi and Trans Adriatic Pipeline
Dear Sir or Madam,
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on June 16 between Olivér Várhelyi and Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.
If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace
Dear Mr Pace,
Thank you for your e-mail. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your
application for access to documents, which was registered on today under
reference number GESTDEM 2022/3579.
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 12
July 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.
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Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations NEAR Access to Documents
[1][DG NEAR request email]
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your request for access to documents, initially registered on
21 June 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 expired yesterday 12 July.
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 3 August 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
[2][DG NEAR request email]
From: NEAR ACCDOC <[DG NEAR request email]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 5:03 PM
To: Barnaby Pace <[FOI #11460 email]>
Cc: NEAR ACCDOC <[DG NEAR request email]>
Subject: RE: access to documents request - Access to documents request:
2022-06-16 meeting between Olivér Várhelyi and Trans Adriatic Pipeline
Dear Mr Pace,
Thank you for your e-mail. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your
application for access to documents, which was registered on today under
reference number GESTDEM 2022/3579.
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 12
July 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 sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations NEAR Access to Documents
[3][DG NEAR request email]
Dear Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Access to documents request: 2022-06-16 meeting between Olivér Várhelyi and Trans Adriatic Pipeline'.
This request is now long overdue and by law, under all circumstances, should have received a reply by now.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/acces...
Yours faithfully,
Barnaby Pace
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[4]RE: Internal review of access to documents request - Access to
documents request: 2022-06-16 meeting between Olivér Várhelyi and Trans
Adriatic Pipeline - Ares(2023)569846 (Please use this link only if you
are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e)
utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Mr Pace,
We are transferring your message below to the Secretariat General.
Please bear in mind that emails from "Ask the EU" sometimes arrive to our
junkbox which has happened on this occasion. We recommend you to make use
of the Commission own platform to request access to documents to avoid any
messages lost (also we do not see all exchanges included in the link you
shared, for example DG NEAR’s reply is missing): [5]Electronic Access to
Commission Documents (EASE) (europa.eu)
Also we would appreciate if you could quote the reference of your request
(2022/3579) when addressing messages as it make easier to find all the
related information.
Finally, please bear in mind that in all replies we clearly explain the
correct channel to request a revision of your application. See below
extracted from the reply you have received:
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 its 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
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to: [6][email address]
Kind regards,
NEAR ACCDOC Team