Access to documents request: 2021-10-12 meeting between Kadri Simson and Gas Distributors for Sustainability
Dear Sir or Madam,
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting or meetings on October 12 between Kadri Simson, Stefano Grassi and Tatiana Marquez Uriarte and Gas Distributors for Sustainability.
In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.
If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace
Dear Sir,
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 27/10/2021 under reference number GESTDEM
2021/6387.
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 19/11/2021. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.
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Yours faithfully,
Access to documents team (rc)
SG.C.1
Transparency
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your e-mail of 27 October 2021 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 27 October 2021 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 on 19
November 2021.
An extended time limit is needed for thorough analysis as to the
availability of 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 10 December
2021.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
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European Commission
DG Energy
DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
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Dear [email address],
I note that this request is now extremely overdue. Please provide an immediate update on its progress.
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
Dear Energy,
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 'Access to documents request: 2021-10-12 meeting between Kadri Simson and Gas Distributors for Sustainability'.
This request is now extremely overdue and I have not received any updates from DG Energy despite prompting.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/acces...
Yours faithfully,
Barnaby Pace
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email dated 17/06/2022 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
ENER in reply to your initial application GESTDEM 2021/6387.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your confirmatory application for access
to documents which was registered on 20/06/2022 (Ares(2022)4521732).
Your application will be handled within 15 working days (11/07/2022). 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. Thank you for providing your contact phone number, 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 (cr)
SG.C.1
Transparency
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Dear Mr Pace,
I refer to your email of 17 June 2022, registered on 20 June 2022, by
which you submitted a confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European
Parliament, Council and Commission documents ("Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001"), registered under reference number above.
Your confirmatory application is currently being handled. Unfortunately,
we have not yet been able to gather all the elements needed to carry out a
full analysis of your request and to take a final decision. Therefore, we
are not in a position to reply to your confirmatory request within the
prescribed time limit which expires on 11 July 2022. Consequently, we have
to extend this period by another 15 working days in accordance with
Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. The new deadline expires on
2 August 2022. However, I can assure you that we are doing our utmost to
provide you with a final reply within the next 15 working days.
I regret this additional delay and sincerely apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit
European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear Mr Pace,
I refer to your e-mails of 17 June 2022, registered on 20 June 2022, by
which you submitted confirmatory applications in accordance with Article
7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European
Parliament, Council and Commission documents ("Regulation 1049/2001")
concerning the cases indicated in the title.
Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to gather all the elements we
need to carry out a full analysis of your requests in order to take a
final decision and are therefore not in a position to send you the reply
by 2 August 2022. We sincerely apologize for the delay and any
inconvenience it may have caused you.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit
European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
I note that this confirmatory review is still pending, despite an almost 4 month delay. I would appreciate and urgent update.
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
[1]RE: Your confirmatory application for access to documents under
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 - GESTDEM 2021/6387, 2021/7402, 2021/8110,
2022/1579, 2022/1604, 2022/2037, 2022/2228, 2022/2229, 2022/2230,
2022/2232 - holding letter - Ares(2022)5509386 - Ares(2022)8884015
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exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Mr Pace,
You submitted a confirmatory application in case 2022/2229 related to the
absence of initial reply by the Directorate-General for Energy, in
accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation 1049/2001.
On 25 November 2022, the Directorate-General for Energy replied to your
request and re-sent the documents to you on 30 November.
As a consequence, by email of 30 November, the Secretariat-General closed
your confirmatory application related to the lack of initial reply. You
acknowledges receipt of this email on the same date.
If you wish to submit a new confirmatory application in accordance with
Article 7(2) of Regulation 1049/2001 regarding the initial decision of the
Directorate-General for Energy, please let us know.
Best regards,
Access to documents team
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents) - cr