Ref. Ares(2021)2432203 - 09/04/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR EUROPEAN CIVIL PROTECTION AND HUMANITARIAN AID
OPERATIONS (ECHO)
The Director-General
Brussels
ECHO.E.2/CR
E-mail with acknowledgment of
receipt
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/0795
Dear Mr Nielsen,
We refer to your email of 17 February 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned reference number.
After examination of your request to the Directorate-General for European Civil
Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) we regret to inform you that
your request does not fall under the scope of the Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents. Therefore, it cannot be
processed as an access to documents request.
We would like to inform you, however, that DG ECHO will process your questions as a
request for information and will provide you with a reply within 15 working days.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to
make a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Mr Nikolaj Nielsen
DHL Service Point
Epicerie Librairie Pouya
Chaussee D'Alsemberg 9
1060 Sint-Gillis
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon
receipt of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following
address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents (SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
BELGIUM
or by email t
o: xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
According to standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also sent to you by
registered post. Please note, however, that due to the extraordinary health and security
measures currently in force during to the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the
requirement for all Commission non-critical staff to telework, this communication will be
sent only by e-mail.
We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present e-mail by
replying to xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
[E-signed]
Paraskevi MICHOU
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Electronically signed on 09/04/2021 11:44 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482