Ref. Ares(2020)7017723 - 23/11/2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
By registered letter with AR:
Ms Meryem Merve Kahya
9 New Row Place
New Row South
D08HY26 Dublin 8
Dublin
Ireland
Copy by e-mail:
ask+request-8013-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your e-mail concerning your applications for access to documents
under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2020/3406
Dear Ms Kahya,
I refer to your e-mail of 17 August 2020, registered on the next day, in which you
submitted a confirmatory application, in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents1 (hereafter ‘Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001’).
Your confirmatory application was submitted in relation to your initial application of
4 June 2020, addressed to the Directorate-General for Trade, whereby you requested
access to, I quote:
‘[documents of] a joint committee, specialized committees, and dialogues
meeting documents of South Korea FTA […]. Especially the documents which
were about the negotiation process before 2011.’
As you did not receive the reply from the above-mentioned Directorate-General within
the statutory time limits, you submitted, on 17 August 2020, a confirmatory application.
I note, however, that on 19 November 2020, the Directorate-General for Trade provided
you the reply to your initial application, referenced Ares(2020)6927383.
1 OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
As the Directorate-General for Trade has in the meantime sent you a full reply to your
application, the Secretariat-General will close this confirmatory application. Please note
that this is without prejudice to your right to submit a new confirmatory application if
you do not agree with the position of the Directorate-General for Trade, as reflected in its
reply of 19 November 2020.
Yours sincerely,
María Oliván Avilés
Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 20/11/2020 18:52 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482