Correspondence with plastics industry on coprocessing
Dear Economic and Financial Affairs,
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- All correspondence (including email, SMS, private twitter and WhatsApp) since January 2021 between commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, and/or his cabinet and his cabinet's officials with any plastics company or plastics industry representatives, or their PR representatives, in which "coprocessing/co-processing" "cement kilns" "plastic credits" "plastics offsetting" or "waste to energy" were discussed.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. If the timeline is outside of your time allowance, please shorten to January 2022 if this allows you to return the request in full, or otherwise, a more recent date (please specify in your response).
If the nature of the enquiry is too broad, I would appreciate if you could let me know immediately. I am assuming the specificity of the search terms allows the enquiry to be narrow enough in scope.
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.
To the extent possible, I would prefer the documents in electronic format.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I expect the partial release of documents, in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6.
I reserve the right to appeal.
My postal address is;
2 Brett Close
London, UK
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.
Yours faithfully,
Jess Staufenberg
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 24/10/2023 and registered on 25/10/2023 under the case number
2023/6332.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 17/11/2023. 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 Economic and Financial Affairs - Access to
Documents
European Commission
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Dear Ms Staufenberg,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 25/10/2023 under case number 2023/6332.
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 17/11/2023.
The application concerns documents held by different Services, which must
be consulted.
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 08/12/2023.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
ECFIN Access to Documents Team
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Dear Ms Staufenberg,
We are contacting you regarding your request on access to Commission
documents registered on 25/10/2023 under case number 2023/6332. Please be
informed that we are still working on your request. However, we have not
been able to gather all the necessary elements to finalise our reply. We
hope that we will be able to provide you with the reply within the next
working days. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
ECFIN Access to Documents Team
Dear Ms Staufenberg,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 25/10/2023 under case number 2023/6332. We were not able to
send you the reply within the extended time limit that expired on
08/12/2023 and informed you of that on the same day. However, please be
assured that we are still working on your request.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause or have caused.
Yours faithfully,
ECFIN Access to Documents
Dear Economic and Financial Affairs,
Thanks very much. I would like a response as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
Jess Staufenberg
Dear Economic and Financial Affairs,
Thank you! I hope to receive a full response from yourselves as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
Jess Staufenberg
Dear Ms Staufenberg,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/6332.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
ECFIN Access to Documents Team