Work with Palantir
Dear Trade,
Palantir Technologies, Inc. is a private company supplying products and services.
I am asking for any information related to palantir and its products and services, including
a) meeting records (drafts, memos, invitations, appointments, cancellations) involving Palantir officials and people representing Palantir and their interests
b) correspondence (including within the [Authority name] and with the European institutions concerning Palantir technologies and / or its products and services or the regulatory environment of the EU that affects their products and services. This may include policy papers, consultation input, memoranda or any other form of information.
c) invoices, tenders, service agreements, purchases, orders, procurement documents, offers etc. concerning products and services using Palantir Technologies.
Please do not transfer this request to another Autority, this is a request specifically for you. Do not exclude short-lived documents or documents considered to be unimportant under archiving rules.
Please ensure that information that is considered to be excempt for access for this request is not automatically deleted within to make sure that subsequent confirmatory applications and legal appeals as well as Ombudsman office inquiries can still access and assess them.
Yours faithfully,
Mathias Schindler
Dear Sir,
Thank you for e-mail of 8 June 2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your
application for access to documents, which was registered on 11 June 2020
under reference number GESTDEM 2020/3571.
For the purposes of the registration of your request the following postal
address will be used: Bundestagsbüro Julia Reda, MdEP Unter den Linden 50
11011 Berlin, Germany.
In case this postal address is incorrect or no longer valid, we kindly ask
you to inform us as soon as possible.
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
2/07/2020. 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 the 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
[1]Privacy statement – access to documents.
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 which you seek to obtain, more
particularly, the timeframe you are interested in, the names of
representatives of Palantir you refer to, persons or bodies who drafted
the documents etc.
In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 , 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 faithfully,
Access to Documents
DG TRADE
Dear Mr Schindler,
If we are not mistaken, we have not received from your side the
clarifications requested below.
‘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 which you seek to obtain, more
particularly, the timeframe you are interested in, the names of
representatives of Palantir you refer to, persons or bodies who drafted
the documents etc.
In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 , the deadline of 15
working days for handling your application will start running when we
receive the requested clarifications.’
Could you please provide us with the requested clarifications as soon as
possible so we can start preparing the reply file.
Thank you in advance for your understanding
Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents
DG TRADE
From: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG TRADE request email]>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:45 PM
To: Mathias Schindler <[FOI #8108 email]>
Cc: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG TRADE request email]>
Subject: access to documents request - Work with Palantir GESTDEM
2020/3571- clarifications needed
Dear Sir,
Thank you for e-mail of 8 June 2020. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your
application for access to documents, which was registered on 11 June 2020
under reference number GESTDEM 2020/3571.
For the purposes of the registration of your request the following postal
address will be used: Bundestagsbüro Julia Reda, MdEP Unter den Linden 50
11011 Berlin, Germany.
In case this postal address is incorrect or no longer valid, we kindly ask
you to inform us as soon as possible.
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
2/07/2020. 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 the 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
[1]Privacy statement – access to documents.
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 which you seek to obtain, more
particularly, the timeframe you are interested in, the names of
representatives of Palantir you refer to, persons or bodies who drafted
the documents etc.
In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 , 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 faithfully,
Access to Documents
DG TRADE
Dear Trade,
Thank you for your email. I am happy to assist you in providing more information. The company has been listed in the EU transparency register at https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregiste... and you can find the names of some of their representatives in this list. Since a complete list of representatives is unavailable, I would like to emphasise that this request should not just cover the people listed in this entry.
The company was founded in 2004, the timeframe should not extend beyond this date.
Please indicate if more information is required.
Yours faithfully,
Mathias Schindler
Dear Mr Schindler,
We refer to your access to documents request registered on 22/06/2020
under the above mentioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, the nature of your
application required us to perform a considerable number of searches in
our database in order to gather all necessary documents. Therefore we will
not be in a position to complete the handling of your application within
the time limit of 15 working days, which expires today. However, we would
like to inform you that your file is now at the last stage of the
procedure and has already been submitted for approval.
Therefore, 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 time limit expires on 4/08/2020.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
Dear Sir,
Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents, registered under reference GestDem 2020/3571.
According to our standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also sent to you by registered post. Please note, however, that due to the extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to the COVID-19 epidemics, 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 answer file e-mail by replying to [DG TRADE request email].
TRADE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM