Management of conflicts of interests in public sector

Esperando una revisión interna por parte de Agencia de los Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea de cómo han respondido a esta solicitud.

Dear European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain information about Management of conflicts of interests in public sector:

Conflicts of interest can be actual, perceived or potential.
• An actual conflict of interest involves a direct conflict between a public official’s current duties and responsibilities and existing private interests.
• A perceived or apparent conflict of interest can exist where it could be perceived, or appears, that a public official’s private interests could improperly influence the performance of their duties – whether or not this is in fact the case.
• A potential conflict of interest arises where a public official has private interests that could conflict with their official duties in the future.
1) I request access to declarations of absence of conflict of interest of Ilza Brands Kehris, the FRA Chair of Governing Board for 2004-2013 .
2) I request access to the controllers Check-document of these declarations and the type of the conflict of interest found (actual, perceived or potential).
The auditors name in the Check-document could be deleted.
3)If exists I also request access to the Declarations by Ms Brands Kehris for any contract concluded between FRA and Latvian Center of Human Rights disclosed here http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/700/r... . Models for this type of declarations are available at http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/703/r...
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/703/r...

Yours faithfully,

A.J. Ross

A.J. Ross dejó un comentario ()

03 10 2013 - Planned response to initial request

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Agencia de los Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea

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Subject:         access to information request - Management of conflicts
of interests in public sector

 

Dear Mr A.J. Ross,

 

In order to process your request for access to documents, please kindly
submit your request using the form available online at:
[1]http://fra.europa.eu/en/about-fra/regist...
).

 

Further information on methods available to access the documents held by
FRA you may find under following link:

[2]http://fra.europa.eu/en/about-fra/regist...

 

Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Schwarzenbergplatz 11
1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 58030-0
Email: [email address]

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Dear EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA),

As requested I filled the form available in FRA website. I did it twice as first time I received failure error.
Taking view that in FRA internet site there is no Privacy Statement for this particular scope (access to documents), and no identity of data processor, as for instance is provided at courts http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/... , on mandatory cells I filed the address of this organization under whose site we started this public exercise titled “Access to Documents”.
Any of Privacy Statements available in fra internet http://fra.europa.eu/en/data-protection-... is applicable to requests to access documents. Therefore I do not know how FRA intends to use my private data and I have some reluctance to give it, taking view to the alleged infringements of law by FRA presented in this website.
Also I noted that FRA did not disclose the identity of FRA processor of personal data in any of the Privacy Statements published in internet http://fra.europa.eu/en/data-protection-.... If I am not wrong, the specific rules require such explicit disclosure of identity of the processor.
FRA nevertheless can send the documents requested directly on email provided and afterwards those documents will be uploaded under these 3 public requests to access documents.
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/manag...
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/manag...
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/manag...
The rule of this website is to upload documents received by email (example - http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/olaf_...
I am confident that you will understand that this is the rule of this public exercise and we cannot change it substantially during the exercise. I observed that only in respect of my requests FRA asked changing the rules, asking for my cooperation (that my requests are filled through FRA site). I did it but I would prefer that FRA itself upload directly in this website – AskthEU the requested documents to be sent through email. This will be a proof that FRA has nothing to hide and refute the public allegations against it. Please be assured about our good intentions and that we just want to have the facts from all sides.
To this aim and a round overview of facts, could FRA confirm that the official mentioned in Parliamentary question E-007475-13 / 25/06/13 serves/served at FRA.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getD...
The information is attached to a document – can be disclosed according to rules.

Yours sincerely,

A.J. Ross

Dear EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA),

This is a kind reminder for my request for access documents.

Yours sincerely,

A.J. Ross

A.J. Ross dejó un comentario ()

deadline 22/10/2013

Dear European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights's handling of my FOI request 'Management of conflicts of interests in public sector'.

I request revision of your decision not to grant me access to documents.
I submit also this link http://www.eurac.edu/staff/GRautz/Docume... which shows that Mrs Ilze Brads Kehris probably lodged declaration for conflict of interest. Additionally I request that all points in initial application are treated at this stage of confirmatory application.

As stated publicly by Mrs Brands Kehris, her functions involved duties at FRA and at a contractor of FRA- Latvian Centre for Human Rights.

"Chairperson of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Elected December 2009 (until June 2012).

Director of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights, Riga, Latvia. Organization work fields: human rights in closed institutions, human rights and law enforcement, civil liberties and fundamental freedoms, minority rights, linguistic rights, citizenship, undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, antidiscrimination, racism and other forms of intolerance. Position held November 2002 - February 2011".

Contracts concluded between FRA and Latvian Centre for Human Rights in period 2008 to 2013 are available here http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/700/r...

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/manag...

Yours faithfully,

A.J. Ross

FRA - Documents, Agencia de los Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea

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Dear Mr A.J. Ross,

 

Thank you for your email. Following your claim that the online application
did not function we tested and found that it is working properly. We
regret to inform you that no application has been submitted in our system.

 

In order to process your request for access to documents, please kindly
submit your request using the form available online at
[1]http://fra.europa.eu/en/about-fra/regist....
The Agency is bound by the Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 concerning data
protection issues.

 

Further information on methods available to access the documents held by
FRA you may find under following link:

[2]http://fra.europa.eu/en/about-fra/regist....

 

Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Schwarzenbergplatz 11
1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 58030-0
Email: [FRA request email]

Visit us on: [3]http://fra.europa.eu | [4]Facebook | [5]Twitter |
[6]YouTube | [7]LinkedIn

Helping to make fundamental rights a reality for everyone in the European
Union

FRA survey of Jewish people’s experiences and perceptions of hate crime,
discrimination and antisemitism: [8]Results available 8 November

-----Original Message-----
From: A.J. Ross [mailto:[FOI #832 email]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 2:25 PM
To: FRA - Documents
Subject: Internal review of access to information request - Management of
conflicts of interests in public sector

 

Dear European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights,

 

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information
reviews.

 

I am writing to request an internal review of European Union Agency for
Fundamental Rights's handling of my FOI request 'Management of conflicts
of interests in public sector'.

 

I request revision of your decision not to grant me access to documents.

I submit also this link
[9]http://www.eurac.edu/staff/GRautz/Docume...
which shows that Mrs Ilze Brads Kehris probably lodged declaration for
conflict of interest. Additionally I request that all points in initial
application are treated at this stage of confirmatory application.

 

As stated publicly by Mrs Brands Kehris, her functions involved duties at
FRA and at a contractor of FRA- Latvian Centre for Human Rights.

 

"Chairperson of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.
Elected December 2009 (until June 2012).

 

Director of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights, Riga, Latvia.
Organization work fields: human rights in closed institutions, human
rights and law enforcement, civil liberties and fundamental freedoms,
minority rights, linguistic rights, citizenship, undocumented migrants,
asylum seekers and refugees, antidiscrimination, racism and other forms of
intolerance. Position held November 2002 - February 2011".

 

Contracts concluded between FRA and Latvian Centre for Human Rights in
period 2008 to 2013 are available here
[10]http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/700/r...

 

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[11]http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/manag...

 

Yours faithfully,

 

A.J. Ross

 

 

 

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Dear EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA),

This is a follow up on my request 'Management of conflicts of interests in public sector'. Could you please update me on the status of my request? Many thanks.

Yours sincerely,

A.J. Ross