Commission Regulation (EU) No 1067/2010
Dear Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD),
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:
Any meeting notes or summaries concerning the history and context of Commission Regulation No. 1067/2010.
Yours faithfully,
Mollie Sitkowski
Thank you for your request for access to documents. Unfortunately you have not indicated your postal address that is required for registering and handling your request in line with the Commission procedural requirements. Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience, including full name, country, town, postal code, street, street number and other relevant details, if any.
The 15 working days time limit for handling your application will start running when we receive the requested information. Pending the receipt of your full address we reserve the right to refuse the registration of your request.
Dear Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD),
My address is reproduced below.
Yours faithfully,
Mollie Sitkowski
Drinker Biddle & Reath
191 N. Wacker Dr., Suite 3700
Chicago, IL, USA 60606
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your request dated 25/09/2014. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 29/09/2014 under reference number GestDem 2014/4334.
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 20/10/2014. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Sabine Verleysen
DG TAXUD R2 - Access to documents
Dear Mrs. Sitkowski,
We are currently processing your request.
Some documents relevant to your application contain the names of certain
Member States alongside their individual positions on selected topics. As
they stand, these parts of the documents are thus considered to originate
from the corresponding Member States.
Article 4(5) of Regulation 1049/2001 states that 'A Member State may
request the institution not to disclose a document originating from that
Member State without its prior agreement.'
Each of the author Member State will have to be consulted, which will take
a long time and might result in the refusal to disclose the related part
of the document.
However, if the name of the Member State is occulted from the document, no
such consultation will be necessary and the document part will be
disclosable. Is the explicit mention of the Member State concerned
essential to you request or would you be content if it did not appear ?
Many thanks in advance for your reply.
Kind regards,
Cédric CHAILLOUX
Comitology, Access to Documents and Data Protection Coordinator
European Commission
Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union
Relations with the Institutions, Internal Coordination, Strategic Planning
(R.2)
J-79 03/0233
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-87529
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Dear Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD),
I would be content if the name of the Member State did not appear.
Yours faithfully,
Mollie Sitkowski
Dear Madam,
We refer to your request dated 25/09/2014 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered on 29/09/2014 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 on 20/10/2014.
An extended time limit for more in-depth investigations is needed in order to complete our assessment on the possibility for the public disclosure of the document requested.
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 10/11/2014.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
TAXUD ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
Dear Mrs Sitkowski,
We thank you for your request.
Please find herewith our reply.
Best regards,
Sabine Verleysen
European Commission
DG TAXUD – R2
Access to documents