Meetings with Goldman Sachs

La demande est partiellement réussie.

Margarida da Silva

Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all exchanges between Commissioner Dombrovskis, his office and his Cabinet, with Goldman Sachs since 1 June 2016 . Specifically, I would like to request any emails, correspondence, meeting notes or telephone call notes.

Yours faithfully,
Margarida da Silva
CEO
Rue d'edimbourg 26
Brussels

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Dear Mrs da Silva,

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 01/03/2018 under reference number GestDem
2018/1279.

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
22/03/2018.

In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due
course.

Yours faithfully,

 

BLURIOT-PUEBLA Madeleine

Cellule 'Accès aux documents'
 
European Commission
SG/B/4 - Transparence

BERL 05/315
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2 296 09 97
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Dear Ms da Silva,

Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2018/1279

We refer to your e-mail dated 26 February 2018 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 1 March 2018 under the above
mentioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, 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 on 21 March 2018.
An extended time limit is needed in order to retrieve the documents
requested.

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 17 April 2018.
Yours sincerely,

Access to documents FISMA
European Commission
Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and
Capital Markets Union 
Unit 02  "Inter-institutional Relations, planning and stakeholders'
relations"
1049 Brussels, Belgium

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Dear Ms Da Silva,

 

Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2018/1279

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 26 February 2018 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 1 March 2018 under the above
mentioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, we will not be in a
position to complete the handling of your application within the new time
limit of 15 working days, which expires today on 17 April 2018.
An extended time limit is needed in order to finalise our answer (final
assessment of the document, elaboration of a draft letter, approval,
redaction of the documents).

Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 10 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 27 April 2018.
Yours sincerely,

Access to documents FISMA
European Commission
Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and
Capital Markets Union 
Unit 02  "Inter-institutional Relations, planning and stakeholders'
relations"
1049 Brussels, Belgium

 

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Dear Ms da Silva,

Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2018/1279

We refer to your e-mail dated 26 February 2018 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 1 March 2018 under the above
mentioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, 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 on 21 March 2018.
An extended time limit is needed in order to retrieve the documents
requested.

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 17 April 2018.
Yours sincerely,

Access to documents FISMA
European Commission
Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and
Capital Markets Union 
Unit 02  "Inter-institutional Relations, planning and stakeholders'
relations"
1049 Brussels, Belgium

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Dear Ms da Silva,

 

We refer to your e-mail dated 26 February 2018 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 1 March 2018 under the above
mentioned reference number.
We are now finalising our reply and you will receive our answer at latest
at the end of next week.

We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Access to documents FISMA
European Commission
Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and
Capital Markets Union 
Unit 02  "Inter-institutional Relations, planning and stakeholders'
relations"
1049 Brussels, Belgium

 

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Dear Ms da Silva,

Subject: Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No
2018/1279

We refer to your e-mail dated 26 February 2018 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 1 March 2018 under the above
mentioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, 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 on 21 March 2018.
An extended time limit is needed in order to retrieve the documents
requested.

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 17 April 2018.
Yours sincerely,

Access to documents FISMA
European Commission
Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and
Capital Markets Union 
Unit 02  "Inter-institutional Relations, planning and stakeholders'
relations"
1049 Brussels, Belgium

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Margarida da Silva

Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,

Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.

I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Meetings with Goldman Sachs' (Ref GestDem No 2018/1279) submitted to the Secretariat General of the European Commission, 26 February 2018 via https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/meet...

Referring to Regulation 1049/2001, I requested documents relating to all exchanges between Commissioner Dombrovskis, his office and his Cabinet, with Goldman Sachs since 1 June 2016 . Specifically, I would like to request any emails, correspondence, meeting notes or telephone call notes.

On 4 May 2018, I finally received a response from DG FISMA granting me partial access to a number of documents and rejecting access to one. After closer inspection of the documents I am submitting a confirmatory application asking you to review this request as:

- In your decision to grant only partial access to these documents, the “names of people working for external organisations and the names of civil servants below the level of Directors” have been redacted from the documents.

We believe the removal of these names is unjustified. There is a public interest in knowing which
Commission officals met with which Goldman Sachs lobbyists. The name of EU professional officials and, in turn, of professional registered interest representatives does not fall under the personal data category. We would therefore like to request the release of these names.

- According to the public list of meetings of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis with organisations and self-employed individuals, the Commissioner has held one meeting with Goldman Sachs on 13/10/2017 in Washington for which there is no trace of this meeting in the batch of documents you sent me. Could you please review and confirm if indeed there are any documents relating to this meeting,

A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/meet...

Yours faithfully,

Margarida da Silva
Corporate Europe Observatory

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Dear Madam,

Thank you for your email dated 25/05/2018 by which you request, pursuant
to Regulation No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament,
Council and Commission documents, a review of the position taken by DG
FISMA in reply to your initial application GESTDEM 2018/1279.

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your confirmatory application for access
to documents which was registered on 31/05/2018 (Ares(2018)2844505).

Your application will be handled within 15 working days (21/06/2018).  In
case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due
course.

Please be informed that the answer to your confirmatory application is a
formal Commission decision that will be notified to you by express
delivery.  We kindly offer you the possibility to provide us a contact
phone number (by email to [email address]), so that the external
delivery service can contact you in case of absence.

Please note that the Commission will not use your phone number for any
other purpose than for informing the delivery service, and that it will
delete it immediately thereafter.

Yours faithfully,

ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (LC)

European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG B.4 – Transparency
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Dear Madam,
 
Please find attached a copy of the confirmatory decision taken on your
request for access to documents registered under Gestdem number 2018/1279,
adopted on 18/06/2018 in the above-mentioned case.
 
Please note that the Secretariat-General of the European Commission will
proceed with the formal notification of the decision in the coming days.
 
This copy is solely sent for your information and is not the formal
notification of the confirmatory decision.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Carlos Remis
SG.B.4
Transparence
Berl. 05/315