Dear Mr Nastas,

We refer to your email of  28/01/2013 in which you submit a request for access to documents, registered on 30/01/2014 under the above mentioned reference number.

We would like to reassure you that your application is currently being processed.

Your request concerns potentially a very large number of documents possibly held by different services. A thorough research will thus be required which cannot be carried our within the normal time limits set out in Article 7 of Regulation 1049/2001.

Yet, the Regulation also provides for a possibility to confer with applicants in order to find a fair solution in such circumstances. Article 6(3) provides that "in the event of an application relating to a very long document or to very large number of documents, the institution concerned may confer with the applicant informally, with a view to finding a fair solution".

Based on this provision, we would kindly ask you whether you would agree that we extend the deadline for handling your application until 15 April 2014.  Needless to say, we will endeavour to finalise the handling of your application for access to documents as promptly as possible, depending on the final number of identified corresponding documents to be assessed.

If you have any questions concerning this proposal, you can contact us by email to: [adresse e-mail]

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Yours faithfully,

Liliane DE WOLF

Head of Unit

 

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