Meetings with the ETF
Dear Mobility and Transport,
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:
- minutes of all meetings between DG MOVE and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF). This should include any meetings with the ETF directly or any of its members. The time period should be 1st January 2015 until today.
- any correspondence between DG MOVE and ETF, or any of its members. This should include but not be limited to correspondence related to the aforementioned meetings, as well as all other email and letter exchanges. It should also include all attachments and accompanying documents contained within the correspondence.
My postal address is:
42 Rue Paul Lauters
1050 Ixelles
Belgium
Sincerely,
Bryan Carter
Dear Mr Carter,
Your request for access to documents has been registered. This message is an acknowledgement of receipt.
In accordance with Regulation 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, you will receive a reply within 15 working days (15/02/2019).
Documents requested:
- Minutes of all meetings between DG MOVE and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF). This should include any meetings with the ETF directly or any of its members. The time period should be 1st January 2015 until today.
- Any correspondence between DG MOVE and ETF, or any of its members. This should include but not be limited to correspondence related to the aforementioned meetings, as well as all other email and letter exchanges. It should also include all attachments and accompanying documents contained within the correspondence.
Commission reference: GESTDEM 2019/0458
Yours faithfully,
MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Mobility and Transport
Unit MOVE A-4
Legal Issues & Enforcement
▪ Postal address: Europese Commissie/Commission européenne, B-1049 Brussel/Bruxelles
▪ Office address: Rue de Mot 28, B-1040 Brussels
▪ Tel. +32 2 299 11 11
E-mail: [DG MOVE request email]
Dear Mr Carter,
Please find attached a response from the European Commission regarding
your requests for access to documents.
Best wishes,
Selina Swift
Unit C.1 – Road Transport Unit
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Dear Mobility and Transport,
Thank you very much for your reply. In order to facilitate the delivery of the above mentioned documents within the legal time-frame, I am ready to reduce the scope of my request. I hereby kindly ask you to provide me with the following:
-Minutes of all meetings between DG MOVE and the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC). This should include any meetings with ERTRAC directly or any of its members, like Hidria. The time period should be 1st January 2015 until today.
- Any correspondence between DG MOVE and ERTRAC, or any of its members, like Hidria. This should include but not be limited to correspondence related to the aforementioned meetings, as well as all other email and letter exchanges. It should also include all attachments and accompanying documents contained within the correspondence.
- Minutes of all meetings between DG MOVE and the European association for forwarding, transport, logistic and Customs services (CLECAT). This should include any meetings with CLECAT directly or any of its members. The time period should be 1st January 2017 until today.
- Any correspondence between DG MOVE and CLECAT, or any of its members. This should include but not be limited to correspondence related to the aforementioned meetings, as well as all other email and letter exchanges. It should also include all attachments and accompanying documents contained within the correspondence.
- Minutes of all meetings between DG MOVE and the International Road Transport Union Permanent Delegation to the EU (IRU). This should include any meetings with IRU directly or any of its members. The time period should be 1st January 2017 until today.
- Any correspondence between DG MOVE and IRU, or any of its members. This should include but not be limited to correspondence related to the aforementioned meetings, as well as all other email and letter exchanges. It should also include all attachments and accompanying documents contained within the correspondence.
As you will notice, I dropped my requests for the documents pertaining to the meetings with the ETF, and reduced the timeline by two years for the documents related to the meetings with IRU and CLECAT. My request regarding DG Move and ERTRAC remains unchanged.
I hope this amended request will be more manageable. As per your question regarding my specific objective and interest for these documents, I will refer to article 6 (1) of Regulation 1049/2001, which states that "The applicant is not obliged to state reasons for the application."
Thank you very much for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Bryan Carter
Dear Sir,
Following your requests for access to documents, please find attached a
response from the European Commission.
Please note that due to the size of the attachments, the documents have
been divided into three e-mails (Parts 1, 2 and 3). Hard copies will
follow by registered post.
Best regards,
Road Transport Unit
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Dear Sir,
Please find attached Part 2 of the documents requested.
Best regards,
Road Transport Unit
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Dear Sir,
Please find attached Part 3 (and final part) of the documents requested.
Best regards,
Road Transport Unit
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Dear Mobility and Transport,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Meetings with ERTRAC'.
In my request, I specifically wrote that I wanted the minutes and all the documents related to the meetings between DG move and ERTRAC or any of its members, like Hidria.
I barely received any of those documents.
The commission Violeta Bulc, or members of her staff, met with Hidria on 17/11/18, 26/10/18, 19/04/17 and 27/05/16. According to her twitter feed, she also visited a Hidria factory on 02/07/18.
Can I please receive, as requested, the minutes and documents related to these meetings.
Thank you very much
Yours faithfully,
Bryan Carter
Please find attached document from JANKOVEC Barbara (MOVE.A.4) dated 28/03/2019.
Veuillez trouver ci-joint le document de JANKOVEC Barbara (MOVE.A.4) daté du 28/03/2019.
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Dear Mr Carter,
First, I would like to refer to your letters dated 23/01/2019 and
25/01/2019 in which you make requests for access to documents, registered
on 23/01/2019 and 25/01/2019 respectively, under the reference numbers Ref
GestDem No 2019-0432, No 2019-0456 and No 2019-0457. We also refer to our
letter of 7/03/2019 and your e-mail from 7/03/2019 as well as our letter
of 28/03/2019.
In our letter of 7/03/2019, we have provided the documents that we had
identified following your initial request. However, in your e-mail from
the same day you refer to certain documents that we would not have
identified. In particular, you refer to the documents related to certain
meetings held by the Commissioner Violeta Bulc, or members of her staff,
with Hidria on 17/11/18, 26/10/18, 19/04/17 and 27/05/16 including a visit
of a Hidria factory on 02/07/18. In our letter of 28/03/2019, we have
provided the documents that we have identified concerning Hidria which is
a member of ERTRAC.
Second, I inform you that we have had certain difficulties in identifying
the documents concerned by your first application and we apologise for
this. In order to clarify the scope of your request which is still pending
we consider that it is better to register a new request for access to
documents.
This new request registered under the reference GESTDEM 2019/1933 will
concern the minutes and all the documents related to the meetings between
DG MOVE and ERTRAC or any of its members, excluding Hidria since the
documents identified have already been sent to you.
In particular, the scope of your request concerns:
- Minutes of all meetings between DG MOVE and members of the European Road
Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC). The time period should be
1st January 2015 until today.
- Any correspondence between DG MOVE and members of ERTRAC. This should
include but not be limited to correspondence related to the aforementioned
meetings, as well as all other email and letter exchanges. It should also
include all attachments and accompanying documents contained within the
correspondence.
This request for access to documents has been registered under reference
GESTDEM 2019/1933.
This message is an acknowledgement of receipt.
In accordance with Regulation 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, you will receive a
reply within 15 working days (23/04/2019).
Commission reference: GESTDEM 2019/1933
Yours faithfully,
MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Mobility and Transport
Unit MOVE A-4
Legal Issues & Enforcement
▪ Postal address: Europese Commissie/Commission européenne, B-1049
Brussel/Bruxelles
▪ Office address: Rue de Mot 28, B-1040 Brussels
▪ Tel. +32 2 299 11 11
E-mail: [1][DG MOVE request email]
References
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1. mailto:[DG MOVE request email]
Please find attached document Ares(2019)2224805 from Barbara JANKOVEC (MOVE.A.4) dated 28/03/2019.
Veuillez trouver ci-joint le document Ares(2019)2224805 de Barbara JANKOVEC (MOVE.A.4) daté du 28/03/2019.
Dear Mr Carter,
Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2019/1933
By Letter of 28 March 2019 ( Ref. Ares(2019)2224805 - 28/03/2019) we
kindly asked you to narrow down the scope of your request in particular
the members of ERTRAC concerned by your request.
To date we have not received any answer from your side. Therefore we
consider that you have withdrawn your request.
Best regards,
MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Mobility and Transport
Unit MOVE A-4
Legal Issues & Enforcement
▪ Postal address: Europese Commissie/Commission européenne, B-1049
Brussel/Bruxelles
▪ Office address: Rue de Mot 28, B-1040 Brussels
▪ Tel. +32 2 299 11 11
E-mail: [1][DG MOVE request email]
References
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1. mailto:[DG MOVE request email]