Ceci est une version HTML d'une pièce jointe de la demande d'accès à l'information 'Better Regulation and the Rights of the Child'.


 
EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
 
 
 
Brussels, 7.7.2016 
C(2016) 4434 final 
 
Mr Arun Dohle 
Viktoriastr. 46 
D-52066 Aachen 
Germany 
 
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DECISION OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL ON BEHALF OF THE COMMISSION PURSUANT 
TO ARTICLE 4 OF THE IMPLEMENTING RULES TO REGULATION (EC) N° 1049/20011 
Subject: 
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under 
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2016/2664 

 
Dear Mr Dohle, 
I refer to your e-mail of 7 June 2016, registered on the same day, in which you submit a 
confirmatory application in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 
1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission 
documents2 ('Regulation 1049/2001').  
1. 
SCOPE OF YOUR REQUEST 
In your initial application of 11 May 2016, addressed to the Directorate-General for 
Justice and Consumers (DG JUST), you requested access to all documents, including 
impact assessment, internal and external correspondence, related to the Juncker 
Commission's decision to no longer prioritise children's rights, in light of the better 
regulation principles and no longer to have an overall programme or framework. 

                                                 

Official Journal L 345 of 29.12.2001, p. 94. 
2    Official Journal L 145 of 31.5.2001, p. 43. 
 
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111 
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/secretariat_general/ 
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx  
 

The Commission has identified the following documents as falling under the scope of 
your request: 
1. Links to the minutes of the 7th and the 9th informal expert group meetings on rights 
of the child referring to the EU Agenda; 
2. Parliamentary question E-005691-15;  
3. Parliamentary question E-012135-15;  
4. Parliamentary question E-008383-15 
In its initial reply of 3 June 2016, DG JUST provided the public links to the meetings 
indicated under point 1 and copies of the parliamentary questions and answers.  
 
Through your confirmatory application you request a review of this position. You 
indicate that you do not find the reply you received satisfactory. You further indicate that 
the minutes, which are publicly available, were known to you and that it was on the basis 
of those documents that you requested public access to all documents, including impact 
assessment, internal and external correspondence, related to the Juncker Commission's 
decision to no longer prioritise children's rights, in light of the better regulation 
principles and no longer to have an overall programme or framework. 
 
 
2. 
ASSESSMENT AND CONCLUSIONS UNDER REGULATION 1049/2001 
When assessing a confirmatory application for access to documents submitted pursuant 
to Regulation 1049/2001, the Secretariat-General conducts a fresh review of the reply 
given by the Directorate-General concerned at the initial stage. 
Following your confirmatory application, the Commission has carried out a renewed, 
thorough search of the documents in its possession. Based on this renewed search, I 
confirm that the Commission has not identified any other document held by it that falls 
within the scope of your request, as there is no decision of the Juncker Commission to no 
longer prioritise children's' rights.  
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation 1049/2001, the right of access as defined in 
that Regulation applies only to existing documents held by the institution. Given that no 
such document has been identified, the Commission is not in a position to handle your 
request.  
 
 



3. 
MEANS OF REDRESS 
Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the means of redress that are available 
against this decision, that is, judicial proceedings and complaints to the Ombudsman 
under the conditions specified respectively in Articles 263 and 228 of the Treaty on the 
Functioning of the European Union. 
 
Yours sincerely, 
 
 
For the Commission 
Alexander ITALIANER 
Secretary-General 

 
 


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