Contacts of DG GROW with the tobacco industry and their lobbyists in 2023
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
The Ombudsman stressed that the tobacco industry continued to have regular contacts with representatives of the European Commission, and that transparency about these contacts, although necessary to achieve the EU's public health objectives, was lacking.
Therefore, 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:
All correspondence, preparatory documents, minutes of meetings and any other report of such meetings, notes, logs of phone calls having occurred in 2023 between officials/representatives/Commissioner/cabinet member of DG GROW and the following private companies and stakeholders:
- Philippe Morris International;
- British American Tobacco;
- Japan American Tobacco;
- Any lobby group or individual when these exchanges are related to tobacco or nicotine products.
Yours sincerely,
Cassandre Bigaignon
Alliance contre le tabac
13 rue d’Uzès, 75002, Paris
France
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 24/04/2024 and registered on 25/04/2024 under the case number
2024/2201.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 21/05/2024. We will let you know
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Madam,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 25/04/2024
under the above mentioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, we were not in a
position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit of 15 working days, which expired on 21/05/2024.
An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns different
Services which must be consulted.
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 11/06/2024.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely.
DG GROW ATD Team
