Access to documents request: May 27 meeting between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Fortum Oyj, Statkraft AS and Vattenfall
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 on May 27 between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Fortum Oyj, Statkraft AS and Vattenfall.
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.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your request for access to documents.
Unfortunately, you have not indicated your postal address. This is necessary for registering and handling your request in line with the procedural requirements.
Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience. Pending your reply, we reserve the right to refuse the registration of your request.
Alternatively, you may use directly the electronic form available on the Europa website:
]http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/....
Yours faithfully,
Access to documents team (cr)
SG.C.1
Transparency
Dear [email address],
With apologies my postal address is:
Global Witness
Rue Belliard 53,
1000, Bruxelles,
Belgique
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
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[1]RE: access to documents request - Access to documents request: May 27
meeting between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Fortum Oyj, Statkraft AS and
Vattenfall --- Ref. Gestdem 2021/3657 - Ares(2021)3661533
Sent by ve_sg.accessdoc (SG) <[DG ENER request email]>. All responses have
to be sent to this email address.
Envoyé par ve_sg.accessdoc (SG) <[DG ENER request email]>. Toutes les
réponses doivent être effectuées à cette adresse électronique.
Dear Sir,
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 03/06/2021 under reference number GESTDEM
2021/3657.
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 24/06/2021. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.
You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union.
Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any
technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.
Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website
is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data
via that website, and not the Commission.
For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s
privacy policy.
We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).
Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
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If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is
published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can
provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future
electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address,
and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You
should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website
about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply
from, the Commission.
For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
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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 03 June 2021 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 03 June 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 will expire on
24 June 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 15 July 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 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: May 27 meeting between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Fortum Oyj, Statkraft AS and Vattenfall'.
Despite the deadline having been extended to the 15th July 2021 I have yet to receive a response making it long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, the authority should have responded by now.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/acce...
Yours faithfully,
Barnaby Pace
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email dated 23/07/2021 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 2021/3657.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your confirmatory application for access
to documents which was registered on 23/07/2021 (Ares(2021)4735451).
Your application will be handled within 15 working days (13/08/2021). 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 23 July 2021, registered on the same day, by
which you submit a confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(4) 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 13 August 2021. 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
3 September 2021. 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,
María OLIVÁN AVILÉS
Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Mr Pace,
I refer to your email of 23 July 2021, registered on the same day, by
which you submit a confirmatory application in accordance with Article
7(4) 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.
I also refer to our holding reply of 13 August 2021, by which the time
limit for replying to your confirmatory application was extended by 15
working days, pursuant to Article 8(2) of Regulation 1049/2001. This
extended time limit expires on 3 September 2021.
I regret to have to inform you that we are not able to respond within the
extended time-limit, as we have not yet finalised internal consultations.
I can assure you that we are doing our utmost to provide you with a final
reply as soon as possible.
I regret this additional delay and sincerely apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
María OLIVÁN AVILÉS
Head of Unit
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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 the extended time limit for this confirmatory application was set for the 3rd of September, following the department failing to respond to an original request, filed on the 3rd of June. This is now far overdue and under all circumstances the authority should have responded by now. Please could you provide an update?
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
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Dear Mr Pace,
Thank you for your e-mail.
We understand your frustration and we would like to assure you that we are
working on the final decision in relation to your request. Considering
that the consultations in relation to your application have not yet been
finalised, unfortunately we cannot commit to a specific time frame within
when the final decision will be adopted.
However, we would like to assure you that we are doing our utmost to
provide you with a reply as soon as possible.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this delay may
cause to you and thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (GD)
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European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG C.1
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I note that a full month has passed since your last update on this now extremely delayed confirmatory application. Are you able to provide any update?
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
[1]GESTDEM 2021-3657 - 2nd holding letter - Ares(2021)5434957 -
Ares(2021)6121440 - Ares(2021)6872340 (Please use this link only if you
are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e)
utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Mr Pace,
Thank you for your e-mail.
We understand your frustration and we would like to assure you that we are
working on the final decision in relation to your request.
We would like to confirm that the consultations in relation to your
application have not yet been finalised. Therefore, we still cannot commit
to a specific time frame within when the final decision will be adopted.
However, we would like to assure you that we are doing our utmost to
provide you with a reply as soon as possible.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this delay may
cause to you and thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (cr)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG C.1 – Transparency, Document Management & Access to Documents
[email address]
Dear Mr Pace,
Please find attached the reply to your access to documents request GESTDEM 2021/3657.
Please confirm the receipt of this e-mail and attachments to [email address]
With kind regards,
European Commission
DG Energy
DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
Email: [email address]
Dear ENER ACCES DOCUMENTS,
Thank you for you response which I hereby acknowledge. I also appreciate the apology for the delay. Many thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
