Sustainable Apparel Coalition
Dear Research and Innovation (RTD),
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) all communication between DG RTD and the secretariat/members of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
2) Internal reports, minutes and communications on sustainable apparel supply chains, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and the Higg Index (since 2009).
3) Internal reports on sustainable apparel/textiles innovation.
Yours faithfully,
Michael Veale
Dear Mr Veale,
We refer to your email of 20 June 2013, in which you submit a request for
access to all documents concerning:
1. "all communication between DG RTD and the secretariat/members of
the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
2. Internal reports, minutes and communications on sustainable
apparel supply chains, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and the Higg
Index (since 2009).
3. Internal reports on sustainable apparel/textiles innovation."
After a careful review of your application, we regret to inform you that
our DG is not able to process your request with its current scope.
This is indeed a very broadly formulated request, which would require
extensive searches on different locations. It is not really feasable to
retrieve documents on these criteria. In particular, for a significant
part of the period covered by your request, there is no central electronic
archiving of correspondence. Therefore, searches in paper files would be
necessary, which would be very labour-intensive and time consuming.
Consequently, we are unable to handle your request in its present form. We
would kindly ask you to make a more targeted request.
Yours sincerely,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
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European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
R5
ORBN 09/151
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-85891
[2][email address]
[3]http://ec.europa.eu/research
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Dear Research and Innovation (RTD),
I narrow my request as follows:
1. "all communication between DG RTD and the secretariat/members of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (since 2009).
2. Internal reports, minutes and communications regarding the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and/or the Higg
Index (since 2009).
Yours faithfully,
Michael Veale
Dear Mr Veale,
We refer to your email of 20 June 2013, in which you submit a request for
access to all documents concerning:
1. "all communication between DG RTD and the secretariat/members of
the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
2. Internal reports, minutes and communications on sustainable
apparel supply chains, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and the Higg
Index (since 2009).
3. Internal reports on sustainable apparel/textiles innovation."
Following our request for clarifications sent via email on 20 June, you
have kindly attempted to narrow the scope of your application for access
to documents as follows:
1. "all communication between DG RTD and the secretariat/members of
the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
2. Internal reports, minutes and communications on sustainable
apparel supply chains, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and the Higg
Index (since 2009).
After a careful review of your application, we regret to inform you that
our DG is still not able to process your request with its current scope.
This is indeed a very broadly formulated request, which would require
extensive searches on different locations. It is not really feasable to
retrieve documents on these criteria. In particular, for a significant
part of the period covered by your request, there is no central electronic
archiving of correspondence. Therefore, searches in paper files would be
necessary, which would be very labour-intensive and time consuming.
Consequently, we are unable to handle your request in its present form. We
would kindly ask you to make a more targeted request and provide us with
more detailed information on the documents which you seek to obtain, such
as references, specific dates and titles etc.
We thank you very much in advance for your kind understanding.
Yours sincerely,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
[1]cid:image001.png@01CDDDFA.7C290D00
European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
R5
ORBN 09/151
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-85891
[2][email address]
[3]http://ec.europa.eu/research
References
Visible links
2. mailto:[email address]
3. http://ec.europa.eu/research