Contacts about EU-Tunisia DCFTA negociations
Dear Trade,
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:
1) a list of meetings between DG Trade officials and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and representatives of individual companies, industry associations, law firms, academics, public consultancies, associations and think tanks in which the EU-Tunisia DCFTA negociations were discussed (between January 2011 and today);
2) minutes and other reports of these meetings;
3) all correspondence (including emails, letters, faxes) between DG Trade officials and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and representatives of individual companies, industry associations, law firms, academics, public consultancies, associations and think tanks regarding EU-Tunisia DCFTA negotiations (between August and December 2018);
4) all correspondence (including emails, letters, faxes) and documents (including briefings, memo's, non-papers) shared between Commission officials and between Commission officials and the Council in which EU-Tunisia DCFTA negotiations were discussed (between August and December 2018).
Yours faithfully,
Marco Jonville,
On behalf of the International Association for technicians, experts and researchers (Aitec)
21 ter rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris
Dear Mr Jonville,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 22 May 2019. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 22
May 2019 under reference number GestDem 2019/3004.
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Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
Dear Mr Jonville,
We refer to your e-mail dated 22 May 2019 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered 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. A
n extended time limit is needed as your application concerns a large
number of documents and requires thorough analysis.
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 8 July 2019.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
-----Original Message-----From: Marco Jonville
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Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 3:12 PM
To: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG TRADE request email]>
Subject: access to documents request - Contacts about EU-Tunisia DCFTA
negociations
Dear Trade,
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:
1) a list of meetings between DG Trade officials and/or representatives
(including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and representatives of
individual companies, industry associations, law firms, academics, public
consultancies, associations and think tanks in which the EU-Tunisia DCFTA
negociations were discussed (between January 2011 and today);
2) minutes and other reports of these meetings;
3) all correspondence (including emails, letters, faxes) between DG Trade
officials and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and the
Cabinet) and representatives of individual companies, industry
associations, law firms, academics, public consultancies, associations and
think tanks regarding EU-Tunisia DCFTA negotiations (between August and
December 2018);
4) all correspondence (including emails, letters, faxes) and documents
(including briefings, memo's, non-papers) shared between Commission
officials and between Commission officials and the Council in which
EU-Tunisia DCFTA negotiations were discussed (between August and December
2018).
Yours faithfully,
Marco Jonville,
On behalf of the International Association for technicians, experts and
researchers (Aitec)
21 ter rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris
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Dear Trade,
I thank you for your responses to my request. However, the extended deadline was due on July the 8th. Could you deliver the documents I requested ?
Yours faithfully,
Marco Jonville
Dear Mr Jonville,
The draft reply to your access to documents request is ready. It is subject to internal approval. We hope to be able to send the reply within few days.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the delay.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
Dear Trade,
Once again, and since you have had all the documents gathered for a month, please do communicate them.
Yours faithfully,
Marco Jonville
Dear Mr Jonville,
Thank you for your message. Indeed, you are right, the deadline to reply
to your access to documents request has passed more than a month ago.
We had not expected this delay. In fact, the reason is a combination of
policy officers having holidays, and some technical/administrative issues
with redaction of parts of the documents pursuant the exception of
Regulation 1049/2001.
We apologise again for the inconvenience caused to you. We do our utmost
to finalise the reply as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
Dear Trade,
Although I know this has been a period of change in the commission, between summer holidays and the changes due to the elections, and despite your answers when I asked for internal reviews, your lack of ability to provide the documents requested as granted by the right to information is becoming very problematic as the extended deadline has expired almost two months ago.
Hence, it would be very pleasing to receive these documents by the end of the week. Otherwise I would have to file a complaint to the Ombudsman, considering your incapacity to respect my rights.
Yours faithfully,
Marco Jonville
Dear Mr Jonville,
Thank you for your message.
We expect to provide you with our reply to your access to documents
request in the coming days, as it is now subject to internal approval.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused to you by the delay.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
Dear Mr Jonville,
Please find attached the reply Ares(2019)5852443 from WEYAND Sabine (TRADE) dated 19/09/2019.
Due to the large file size of the documents, we have had to zip the documents and transmit the file via email.
Yours sincerely
DG Trade