Correspondence and exchanges on pesticide reduction law (SUR)
Dear Environment,
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 since 01 August 2022, (including emails, letters and attached documents, and SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc, recorded voice messages), regarding the revision of the Sustainable Use of pesticides Directive (SUD) and the proposal for a Regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products as published on 22 June 2022, between the European Commission (President, Vice-Presidents, Comissioners & cabinets, DGs and officials) on the one hand, and on the other hand, one or several of these entities: Croplife Europe, CropLife International, ECCA (European Crop Care Association), Copa-Cogeca, CEJA, Business Europe, CEFIC, FarmEurope, Bayer, BASF, Syngenta, Corteva, Agriculture&Progress, CEFS (European Federation of Sugar Manufacturers), Cargill, CEPM/Maiz’Europ’, CIBE (International Confederation of European Beet Growers), Coceral, the Grain Club; and anybody acting on their behalf, such as law firms or lobby firms including EPPA, Hume Brophy or Fleishman Hillard.
I would also like to request a list of the meetings/ discussions (including those held face to face, online, by telephone etc) between the above-mentioned entities, with detailed minutes and any other reports of such meetings having occurred, since 01 August 2022, as well as any records, minutes or notes of these meetings/discussions and any briefings prepared for these meetings. My request does not include submissions to public EU consultations.
I am asking you to not redact any name of EU employees, professional lobbyists and the organisations and companies they work for, as such data cannot be considered personal data under Regulations 1049/2001 on access to documents and 45/2001 on data protection. Similarly, I kindly urge you to not apply an excessive interpretation of the clause on commercial secrets under 1049/2001.
Should this request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions by referring to specific exemptions in the regulation, and by justifying your interpretation of the applicable legislation. To the extent possible, our preference is to receive documents in electronic format. Documents that cannot be sent in electronic format should be sent to Corporate Europe Observatory, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels – to the attention of Hans van Scharen. Should you transmit documents to us by regular post, we kindly ask you to announce us in advance in this regard.
I look forward to a positive consideration of this request.
Yours faithfully,
hans van scharen
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 03/04/2023 and registered on 04/04/2023 under the case number
2023/2078.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 28/04/2023. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Environment - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Mr. Van Scharen,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 4 April 2023 under case number 2023/2078.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 28 April 2023.
The reason is that we are experiencing technical difficulties with the IT
application.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 17 May 2023.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
ADO team
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Dear Mr. Van Scharen,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 4 April 2023 under case number 2023/2078.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 28 April 2023.
The reason is that we are experiencing technical difficulties with the IT
application.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 17 May 2023.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
ADO team
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1. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/...
Dear sir, madame,
Thank you for your update concerning my FOI request registered on 4 April 2023 under case number 2023/2078.
You write that "yoiu will not be able to send you the reply within the prescribed time limit expiring on 28 April 2023.the new delay is due to " technical difficulties with the IT".
As I recall the first delay was due to tha fact that you requested a postal adress. If it may accelarate this application, may I suggest that you therefore send me the requested documents to the postal adress I provided you with:
Corporate Europe Observatory
Hans van Scharen
Rue d’Édimbourg 26
1050 Brussels – Belgium
Thanks for your attention.
Yours faithfully,
hans van scharen
Dear Mr van Scharen,
You have applied for the above access to documents and our deadline for
response was 24 May.
Please note that we have collected all relevant material but that we are
encountering technical difficulties.
We hope to send you our final reply by tomorrow Fr. 26 at latest.
Best regards,
The access to documents team
