Refused registration to Access to Documents requests
Dear International Cooperation and Development,
I am requesting a copy of each Access to Documents request from 2018 and 2019 that was refused registration because the requesting person did not provide a postal address.
Please do not transfer this request to another authority, I am specifically asking for requests that were sent to you.
I am perfectly fine with the redaction of personal information.
Since my postal address is on file and there is no legal requirement for a provision of a postal address (and since the European Commission has stopped sending out physical letters in Access to Document request procedures during the pandemic anyway) please do not bother asking me again for a postal address, which yould be especially hillarious given the topic of this request, don't you think?
Yours faithfully,
Mathias Schindler
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 05 June 2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 08
June 2020 under reference number GESTDEM 2020/3438.
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 29
June 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 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
from, the Commission.
For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
Privacy statement – access to documents:
[1]https://ec.europa.eu/info/principles-and....
Yours faithfully,
European Commission
Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
1049 Bruxelles/Brussel
Belgium
[2]http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm
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Dear Mr Schindler,
Further to your email on the above mentioned request for access to documents, please find enclosed a letter and annexes from Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also sent to you by registered post. However, please note that, due to the extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during the COVID-19 pandemics, which include the requirement for all Commission non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to follow this procedure until further notice.
We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present e-mail by replying to the following email address: [DG DEVCO request email]
Yours sincerely,
European Commission
Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
Dear Mr Schindler,
Kind reminder,
Further to our email sent on 16/06/2020 on the above mentioned request for
access to documents, you have not yet acknowledged the receipt of it.
According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered post. However, please note that, due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during the
COVID-19 pandemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice.
We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the reply to
your request by replying to the following email address:
[1][DG DEVCO request email]
Yours sincerely,
European Commission
Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
1049 Bruxelles/Brussel
Belgium
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Dear International Cooperation and Development,
I have received the reply. Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Mathias Schindler