Written documents sent by technology companies
Dear Competition,
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:
All written documents received by DG COMP from the below listed companies, in relation to the following legislative instruments/initiatives:
1. the 2018 amendment of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive
2. the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive
3. the Digital Services Act Package (the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act)
4. the European Media Freedom Act
from the following companies:
1. Meta (Facebook)
2. Google
3. Microsoft
4. Twitter
5. Apple
6. Amazon
Yours faithfully,
Melinda Rucz
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]Edit-Time-Data
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your e-mail of 03/06/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
03/06/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/3224.
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
27/06/2022. 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
[3]Privacy statement – access to documents.
Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
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Access to Documents team
DG Competition-European Commission
MADOU-12-85 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
email: [5][email address]
Link: [1]File-List
Link: [2]Edit-Time-Data
Dear Mrs. Rucz,
We refer to your e-mail on 03/06/2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 03/06/2022 under the above mentioned
reference number.
Please provide us your postal address.
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, such as
references, dates or periods during which the documents would have been
produced. If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your
application, you can contact us:
· by email to: [3][email address]
· by telephone to: (+32) (0) 22 973780
The 15 working days the time limit for handling your application will
start running when we receive the requested clarifications.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
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Access to Documents team
DG Competition-European Commission
MADOU-12-85 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
email: [5][email address]
From: COMP ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 1:03 PM
To: Melinda Rucz <[FOI #11385 email]>
Cc: COMP ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS <[email address]>
Subject: RE: access to documents request - Written documents sent by
technology companies-GESTDEM 2022/3224
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your e-mail of 03/06/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
03/06/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/3224.
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
27/06/2022. 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
[6]Privacy statement – access to documents.
Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
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Access to Documents team
DG Competition-European Commission
MADOU-12-85 B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
email: [8][email address]