Memos, guidance and guidelines on record creation
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
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. Memos, guidance, guidelines, or training material (or any other document) for staff on record creation and/or record keeping. I am particularly interested in documents that refer to creation/keeping of text messages.
2. Memos, guidance, guidelines, or training material (or any other document) for SG staff on the processing of access to information requests.
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
netzpolitik.org
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
10119 Berlin
Germany
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 22 March 2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 24 March 2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/1721.
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Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
Dear Sir,
We refer to your request for access to documents registered on 24/03/2022
under the above-mentioned reference number.
The description given in your application does not enable us to identify
concrete documents which would correspond to your request. We therefore
invite you, pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
regarding public access to documents, to provide us with more detailed
information on the documents that you seek to obtain. In particular:
- Are you looking for guidance material made by the Secretariat
General (SG) of the Commission? For all the staff of the Commission? Or
for the specific staff of DG GROW?
- Please indicate a temporal scope for the search of the documents
(from… to…)
If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application,
please let us know.
In accordance with Article 2, third paragraph of the Implementing Rules to
Regulation 1049/2001[1], the 15 working days time limit for handling your
application will start running when we receive the requested
clarifications.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
Dear access to documents team at DG Grow,
I am interested in the aforementioned material specifically for the staff of DG GROW, from January 2017 up to the present.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Fanta
netzpolitik.org
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
10119 Berlin
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Dear Mr Fanta,
We refer to your e-mail 22 March 2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 24 March 2022 under the above mentioned
reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. Unfortunately, we have not
yet been able to finish consultations necessary to carry out a full
analysis of your request and to take a final decision. Therefore, we have
not been in a position to reply to your request within the prescribed time
limit, which expires on 21 April 2022.
Consequently, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents. The new deadline expires on 13 May 2022.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear Mr Fanta,
I refer to your emails of 22 March 2022 and 25 April 2022 in which you
make requests for access to documents, registered on 24 March 2022 and 26
April 2022 respectively under the above mentioned reference numbers.
In these initial applications you requested, I quote: ‘documents which
contain the following information:
1. Memos, guidance, guidelines, or training material (or any other
document) for staff on record creation and/or record keeping. I am
particularly interested in documents that refer to creation/keeping of
text messages.
2. Memos, guidance, guidelines, or training material (or any other
document) for (SG)[5][1] staff on the processing of access to information
requests.’
Regarding the documents you requested under the point 2 of you requests, I
invite you, in accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001[6]^^[2] regarding public access to European Parliament, Council
and Commission documents, to provide us with a clarification of your
request. Namely, do you specifically ask for documents ‘on the processing
of access to information requests’ or you request documents pertains to
processing of access to documents requests.
If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us:
· by email to: [7][email address] with above mentioned
GESTDEM references
In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 [8]^^[3], the
deadline of 15 working days for handling your application will start
running when we receive the requested clarifications.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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1 Only in the request of 22 March 2022, registered under
GESTDEM reference 1721.
2 Official Journal L145, 31.05.2001, p.43. You can find a copy
of the Regulation at the following link:
[10]http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/E....
3 Official Journal L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94.
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[11][1] Only in the request of 22 March 2022, registered under
GESTDEM reference 1721.
[12][2] Official Journal L145, 31.05.2001, p.43. You can find a copy
of the Regulation at the following link:
[13]http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/E....
[14][3] Official Journal L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94.
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Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
I would like to clarify that I mean access to documents requests.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Fanta
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
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Dear Mr Fanta,
I refer to your email of 22 March 2022, registered on 24 March 2022, by
which you submit a request for access to documents in accordance with
Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents ("Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001"), registered under reference number above.
I also refer to our holding reply of 19 April 2022, by which the time
limit for replying to your initial application was extended by 15 working
days, pursuant to Article 8(2) of Regulation 1049/2001. This extended time
limit expires on 13 May 2022.
I regret to have to inform you that we are not able to respond within the
extended time-limit, as we have not yet finalised internal consultations.
I can assure you that we are doing our utmost to provide you with a final
reply as soon as possible.
I regret this additional delay and sincerely apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
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 'Memos, guidance and guidelines on record creation'. I am still waiting for my answer and hope you can deliver it as soon as possible.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/memos...
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
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Dear Sir,
Thanks for your message. Your message was forwarded by Directorate General
GROW to the Secretariat General as your request for access to documents
was registered under reference number 2022/1721 and dealt with by the
Secretariat General.
You received the initial Commission answer on 03/06/2022 (attached again
to the present mail for your convenience with 7 out of 19 attachments -
the rest being sent under a separate emails).
Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[email address]
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[5]GESTDEM 2022/1721 - Elements of reply: annexes 8, 9, 10 -
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Dear Sir,
Please find in attachment annexes 8, 9 and 10 of the reply to your request
ref. No GESTDEM 2022/1721.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[email address]
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Dear Sir,
Please find in attachment annexes 12, 13 and 14 of the reply to your
request ref. No GESTDEM 2022/1721.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[5][email address]
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Dear Sir,
Please find in attachment annexes 15 and 16 of the reply to your request
ref. No GESTDEM 2022/1721.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[email address]
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Dear Sir,
Please find in attachment annexes 17 and 18 of the reply to your request
ref. No GESTDEM 2022/1721.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[email address]