Investigation in to Cyprus Bar Association unlawful fee fixing
Dear Competition,
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:
Further to your announcement in November 2018 whereby the Cyprus Bar agreed to abrogate minimum fees after being found guilty of unlawful fee fixing I would like a copy of the full investigation report please (not just the summary or the press release). I note the investigation has closed and therefore you cannot avoid providing this information on the basis that the investigation is ongoing.
It is in the public interest to understand the nature of the investigation and the findings of the investigation so that consumers can know what to look out for and companies can avoid such offences in the future.
Yours faithfully,
F Lewis
Dear Competition,
I forgot to add that I would like you to provide the basis for private recovery actions in the Courts by overcharged clients.
Yours faithfully,
F Lewis
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]Edit-Time-Data
Dear Mr Lewis,
We refer to your email sent on 2/8/2020 with the request for access to
documents and other information.
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required for registering and handling your request in line with the
procedural requirements under Regulation 1049/2001.
Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience.
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COMP Access to Documents team
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Dear Competition,
Well that is quite bizarre isn't it. I am logged into this site and have given my personal details. Other areas of the European Union have provided information, but you cannot. Ask Ms Rodriguez Galindo who I am and where I live.
Ask the owners of this site who I am and where I live. I cannot use this site unless I am logged into it.
Moreover, you aren't sending them to my postal address, you are going to publish them here, for all to see.
You are reserving your right not to answer my request, when you are required to do so. You want me to go somewhere else and register my request so that the hundreds of victims of the Cyprus Bar illegal fee fixing scam won't see it. Why is that? Why does this site work for others, but not for you?
I'd like an internal review please and so I don't understand your position.
Yours faithfully,
F Lewis
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]Edit-Time-Data
Dear Sir ,
Thank you for your e-mail of 3 August 2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 15
June 2020 under reference number GESTDEM 2020/4689.
Document request: I would like a copy of the investigation report relating
to the unlawful fixing of fees by the Cyprus Bar Association, the outcome
of which was declared in November 2018. The investigation is
over so I would like a copy of the full report please, together with the
rights of redress for the tens of thousands of consumers who were swindled
by this scam. I would like to know how much the members of
the Cyprus Bar association made by implementing this scam and why they
were let off.
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
24/08/2020. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be
informed in due course.
You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore, the
European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or
problems linked to the use of this system.
Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website
is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data
via that website, and not the Commission. For further information on your
rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.
We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).
Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
the AsktheEU.org website.
If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is
published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can
provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future
electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address,
and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You
should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website
about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply
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[3]Privacy statement – access to documents.
Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
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Access to Documents team
DG Competition-European Commission
MADOU-12-85 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
email: [5][email address]