CEF Funding - Upgrading and electrification from Vienna Stadlau to the Slovakian Border
Dear Mobility and Transport,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001. I am requesting documents which contain the following information: all documents related to the grant decision for project 2017-AT-TM-0001-W (Upgrading and electrification from Vienna Stadlau to the Slovakian Border near Marchegg (bottleneck removal).
Including but not limited to the application analysis, e-mails, the decision to provide the project with the grant, and Advisory Group discussions. The request includes the grant application forms.
Yours faithfully,
Peter Kroys
Dear M. Kroys,
Thank you for your e-mail of 01 September 2022.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 01 September 2022 under the following GESTDEM
reference numbers:
GESTDEM 2022/4929: All documents related to the grant decision for project
2017-AT-TM-0001-W (Upgrading and electrification from Vienna Stadlau to
the Slovakian Border near Marchegg (bottleneck removal). Including but not
limited to the application analysis, e-mails, the decision to provide the
project with the grant, and Advisory Group discussions. The request
includes the grant application forms.
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 22
September 2022. 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.
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Yours faithfully,
MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS TEAM
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European Commission
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Unit MOVE A4
Legal Issues & Enforcement
▪ Postal address: Europese Commissie/Commission européenne, B-1049
Brussel/Bruxelles
▪ Office address: Rue de Mot 28, B-1040 Brussels
▪ Tel. +32 2 299 11 11
E-mail: [3][DG MOVE request email]
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Best regards,
Access to Documents Team
From: MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG MOVE request email]>
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 6:19 PM
To: Peter Kroys <[FOI #11791 email]>
Cc: MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG MOVE request email]>
Subject: GESTDEM 2022/4929 - Acknowledgement of receipt via private third
party - access to documents request - CEF Funding - Upgrading and
electrification from Vienna Stadlau to the Slovakian Border
Dear M. Kroys,
Thank you for your e-mail of 01 September 2022.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered on 01 September 2022 under the following GESTDEM
reference numbers:
GESTDEM 2022/4929: All documents related to the grant decision for project
2017-AT-TM-0001-W (Upgrading and electrification from Vienna Stadlau to
the Slovakian Border near Marchegg (bottleneck removal). Including but not
limited to the application analysis, e-mails, the decision to provide the
project with the grant, and Advisory Group discussions. The request
includes the grant application forms.
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 22
September 2022. 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
the AsktheEU.org website.
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
[2]Privacy statement – access to documents.
Yours faithfully,
MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS TEAM
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European Commission
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Unit MOVE A4
Legal Issues & Enforcement
▪ Postal address: Europese Commissie/Commission européenne, B-1049
Brussel/Bruxelles
▪ Office address: Rue de Mot 28, B-1040 Brussels
▪ Tel. +32 2 299 11 11
E-mail: [4][DG MOVE request email]
Dear [email address],
You have asked me to provide you with my postal address.
That's Meelzolder 16, 8071TD NUNSPEET (NL)
Yours sincerely,
Peter Kroys
Dear Mr KROYS,
We would like to inform you that following your requests for access to
documents dated 01 September and 05 September 2022, referenced "GESTDEM
2022/4928, 2022/4929, and 2022/4969", DG MOVE has transferred it to CINEA
Agency, which will be in charge of your reply. The time-limit for response
is set on 22 September 2022 (GESTDEM 2022/4928, 2022/4929) and on 26
September (GESTDEM 2022/4969), however, in case this time-limit needs to
be extended, the service responsible for your application will inform you
in due course.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
MOVE ACCES DOCUMENTS TEAM
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European Commission
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Unit MOVE A4
Legal Issues & Enforcement
▪ Postal address: Europese Commissie/Commission européenne, B-1049
Brussel/Bruxelles
▪ Office address: Rue de Mot 28, B-1040 Brussels
▪ Tel. +32 2 299 11 11
E-mail: [2][DG MOVE request email]
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[4]Acknowledgment of receipt - your access to documents applications CINEA
2022/22, CINEA 2022/23 and CINEA 2022/24 - Ares(2022)6283739 (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 Sir,
Thank you for your e-mails of 1^st of September. We hereby acknowledge
receipt of your three applications for access to documents, which were
registered by CINEA on 9^th September 2022 under following reference
numbers:
- CINEA 2022/22 regarding project 2019-RO-TMC-0300-W (Modernisation
of the Bucuresti Nord–International Airport Henri Coanda Bucuresti railway
line);
- CINEA 2022/23 regarding project 2017-AT-TM-0001-W (Upgrading and
electrification from Vienna Stadlau to the Slovakian Border near Marchegg
(bottleneck removal);
- CINEA 2022/24 regarding project 2019-SE-TM-0106-W (Removal of the
Flackarp-Arlöv major bottleneck on the Swedish Southern Main Line);
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
30^th September 2022. 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
the AsktheEU.org website.
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
[5]Privacy statement – access to documents.
Yours faithfully,
CINEA ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
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[4]Reply to your access to documents request CINEA 2022/23 -
Ares(2022)6747577 (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 Kroys,
We refer to your request for access to documents, under [5]Regulation (EC)
1049/2001 ("the Regulation"), sent via email on 1 September 2022,
registered under the reference number CINEA 2022/23.
You request concerns access to all documents related to the grant decision
for project 2017-AT-TM-0001-W (Upgrading and electrification from Vienna
Stadlau to the Slovakian Border near Marchegg (bottleneck removal).
Including but not limited to the application analysis, e-mails, decision
to provide the project with the grant and Advisory Group discussions. The
request includes the grant application forms.
After analysing your request, we consider that the following documents
fall within its scope:
- Grant application (Document 1)
- (Technical) assessment of the application by the Internal
Evaluation Committee ('internal evaluation form') (Document 2)
- Emails regarding the grant agreement preparation
- Commission selection decision and its annex (Document 3)
Please note that we do not hold any documents related to the description
that you provided in your request as “Advisory Group discussions”.
Having examined the documents requested under the provisions of Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, we have come to
the conclusion that:
• Document 1 and the e-mails regarding the grant agreement preparation
cannot be disclosed for the reasons explained below under point 2.
• Document 2 may be partially disclosed. The reasons for the partial
redaction of the document are explained below in point 1.
• Document 3 can be disclosed and is publicly available.
1. Document 2 may be partially disclosed. Parts of the document were
redacted for the following reasons:
Article 4(2), first indent of Regulation 1049/2001 provides that “the
institutions shall refuse access to a document where disclosure would
undermine the protection of commercial interests of a natural or legal
person, including intellectual property (…) unless there is an overriding
public interest in disclosure.”
We have redacted certain cost items and the activities not retained for
funding in document 2, as this information constitutes commercially
sensitive information for the legal entities concerned, their disclosure
being prevented by Article 4 (2), first indent.
The exception of Article 4(2), first indent of Regulation No 1049/2001
applies, unless an overriding public interest justifies disclosure of the
documents. In your request you did not evoke such a public interest, nor
could we identify an overriding public interest in this case. By redacting
certain cost items, we do not exceed the limits of what was appropriate
and necessary in the light of the protected interest of public
transparency.
2. Document 1 and the emails regarding the grant agreement preparation
cannot be disclosed for the following reasons:
Document 1 cannot be disclosed based on Article 4(2), first indent of
Regulation 1049/2001. Based on our assessment of the document, we believe
that disclosure of the grant application, would negatively affect the
commercial interests of the legal entity that submitted the grant
application. The document contains, in its entirety, commercially
sensitive technical and financial information, e.g. detailed description
of the planned activities and their estimated budget, the planning of the
implementation and the proposed methodology, as well as the business
strategies of the applicant and its business partners, the specific
know-how and experience. Additionally, it contains elements that relate to
the specific expertise of the applicant and contribute to the uniqueness
and attractiveness of the latter's application in the context of calls for
proposals. Regarding in particular to the competitive context of the call
for proposals, the information in question should be treated as of
confidential nature. Therefore, no meaningful partial disclosure is
possible.
The exception laid down in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
applies unless there is an overriding public interest in disclosure of the
documents. We examined whether there could be an overriding public
interest in disclosure, but that we have not been able to identify such an
interest, nor have you evoked such interest in your request.
The e-mails related to the Grant Agreement preparation cannot be disclosed
based on Article 4(3) second paragraph of Regulation 1049/2001 that
stipulates that: “Access to a document containing opinions for internal
use as part of deliberations and preliminary consultations within the
institution concerned shall be refused even after the decision has been
taken if disclosure of the document would seriously undermine the
institution's decision-making process, unless there is an overriding
public interest in disclosure.”
Emails regarding the grant agreement preparation cannot be disclosed as
they are preparatory technical exchanges and clarifications meant to
define the final text of the Grant Agreement that are part of the standard
assessment the Agency carries out during the preparation of all Grant
Agreements and cannot be disclosed as they are protected by Article 4(3)
(decision making process) of Regulation (EC) 1049/2001. In addition, these
documents contain personal data protected by Article 4(1) (b) of the
Regulation and commercially sensitive information protected by Article
4(2), first indent of Regulation 1049/2001 (see details above).
The exception provided for in Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 apply, unless an overriding public interest justifies disclosure
of the documents. We examined whether there could be an overriding public
interest in disclosure, but that we have not been able to identify such an
interest nor have you evoked such an interest in your request.
Please note that documents originating from third parties are disclosed to
you based on Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. However, this disclosure is
without prejudice to the rules on intellectual property, which may limit
your right to reproduce or exploit the released documents without the
agreement of the party from which they originate, who may hold an
intellectual property right on them. CINEA does not assume any
responsibility from their reuse.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation 1049/2001, you are entitled
to make a confirmatory application as regards your request for access to
documents requesting the Agency to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days
upon receipt of this email to the Director of CINEA at the following
address:
CINEA
Chaussée de Wavre 910
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to: [6][email address]
Best regards,
CINEA ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
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Dear CHONDROGIANNI Maria Eleni,
Thank you for the documents. In addition to the documents that you have sent, I also expected the application documents. I was probably not entirely clear: specifically I would like to receive the so-called Technical Description Part B (or D in previous years) of the application documents if possible.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Kroys
[1]FW: Internal review of access to documents request - CEF Funding -
Upgrading and electrification from Vienna Stadlau to the Slovakian Border
- Ares(2022)7091079 (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 Kroys,
The application documents (including the Technical Description Part B (or
D in previous years)) were considered by us in the assessment of your
request for access to documents No CINEA 2022/23. In our reply from 30
September 2022, we have referred to these documents as ‘Document 1 – Grant
application’. We have refused to grant you access to the Grant application
for the reasons explained in point 2 of our reply and repeated below for
your convenience:
The Grant application cannot be disclosed based on Article 4(2), first
indent of Regulation 1049/2001. The document contains commercially
sensitive technical and financial information, e.g. a detailed description
of the planned activities and their estimated budget, the planning of the
implementation and the proposed methodology, as well as the business
strategies of the applicant and its business partners, the specific
know-how and experience. Therefore, no meaningful partial disclosure is
possible.
The exception of Article 4(2), first indent of Regulation No 1049/2001
applies, unless an overriding public interest justifies disclosure of the
document. We could not identify an overriding public interest in this
case.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation 1049/2001, you are entitled
to make a confirmatory application as regards your request for access to
documents requesting the Agency to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days
upon receipt of our reply from 30 September 2022 to the Director of CINEA
at the following address:
CINEA
Chaussée de Wavre 910
B-1049 Bruxelles
or by email to: [email address]