Ref. Ares(2020)3296205 - 24/06/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Health systems, medical products and innovation
The Director
Acting Head of Unit B1: Performance of national health systems
Brussels
SANTE.DDG1.B.1/WB
Dear Sir,
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/3667
We refer to your email of 16 June 2020 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 16 June 2020 under the above mentioned reference numbers.
The description given in your application does not enable us to identify concrete
documents, which would correspond to your request.
We therefore invite you, in accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, to provide us with more detailed
information on the documents you request, such as references, dates or periods during
which the documents would have been drawn up, persons or bodies who drafted the
documents etc.
The request to provide minutes, reports and correspondence of the Commission with
lobby groups and think tanks where medical care and health issues are discussed (see
below in italics) is not fully clear to us.
GESTDEM 2020/
3667 (Ares(2020)3123266) - Medical care and healthcare issues
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minutes and other reports of meetings between the European Commission and
private healthcare companies (including Fresenius, Helios /Quironsalud,
Asklepios, Ramsay Health, Sana Kliniken, Elsan, Gruppo San Donato and
Capio),
professional services firms (including PWC, Deloitte, KPMG, EY and
McKinsey) as well as with lobby groups and thinktanks (including the European
alliance for cost efficiency in healthcare (COSTEFF), Health Consumer
Powerhouse, etc.), where medical care and healthcare issues (including health
sector reform, patients choice, cross-border healthcare, or healthcare service
markets) were discussed (from June 1st 2017 till today).
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all correspondence (including emails) between the European Commission and
private healthcare companies (including Fresenius Helios /Quironsalud,
Olivier HOEDEMAN
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Rue d'Edimbourg 26,
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Only by email to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Asklepios, Ramsay Health, Sana Kliniken, Elsan, Gruppo San Donato and
Capio),
professional services firms (including PWC, Deloitte, KPMG, EY and
McKinsey) as well as with lobby groups and thinktanks (including the European
alliance for cost efficiency in healthcare (COSTEFF), Health Consumer
Powerhouse, etc.), where medical care and healthcare issues (including health
sector reform, patients choice, cross-border healthcare, or healthcare service
markets) were discussed (from June 1st 2017 till today).
Could you please specify more which lobby groups and which think tanks you have in
mind (
beyond COSTEFF and Health Consumer Powerhouse)?
Could you also please specify what kind of meetings and correspondence you are
interested in (we assume that you mean lobbying meetings, such as conferences, bilateral
meetings, and related correspondence)?
If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you can contact us by
email t
o: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx.
In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules for the
application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 1, the deadline of 15 working days for
handling your application will start running when we receive the requested clarifications.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
Andrzej Jan RYS
1
Official Journal L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94.
2
Electronically signed on 24/06/2020 14:40 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 4.2 (Validity of electronic documents) of Commission Decision 2004/563