4AMLD meetings
Dear Taxation and Customs Union,
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:
List of meetings, and/or minutes of those meetings, and/or list of participants in those meetings, between any TAXUD officials and third parties/lobbyists where the update of the 4th Anti Money Laundering Directive was discussed.
Yours faithfully,
Andreas Pavlou
Calle Cava de San Miguel 8, 4c
28005 Madrid
Spain
Dear Mr Pavlou,
Thank you for your request dated 11/07/2016. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 12/07/2016 under reference number GestDem 2016/3873.
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 3/08/2016. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
Yours faithfully,
DG TAXUD R2 - Access to documents
Dear Mr Pavlou,
We thank you for your request that has been transmitted to us.
Please find herewith our reply.
Best regards,
p.o. Sabine Verleysen
Valérie Gattegno
European Commission
TAXUD/R2
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Dear Taxation and Customs Union,
Before deciding whether or not to file a confirmatory application, I would like to know if your reply means that no meetings were held between DG TAXUD staff and third parties on the update of the 4AMLD?
Yours faithfully,
Andreas Pavlou
Dear Mr Pavlou,
We have already answered your request for access to documents.
As regards your follow up question as to whether there were any meetings between TAXUD staff and third parties on the update of the 4AMLD, we would like to inform you that we have no records of any such meetings.
Kind regards,
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