Communications with the Spanish

La demande est réussie.

Dear European Central Bank,

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:

1) Any and all communications from the ECB addressed to the Spanish
Finance Minister (or his direct office) in the 40 days running up to 12 May 2010.

Yours faithfully,

Jacobo Elosua

Banque centrale européenne

Dear Mr Elosua,

Thank you for your e-mail of 19 January 2012 which have been received
by the Press and Information Division of the European Central Bank.

We would like to refer you to the following document:
http://www.ecb.int/ecb/pdf/archive/archi...
which provides the information about the conditions of access to the ECB archives and
the official procedures.

We hope that this will be of assistance.

With kind regards,
EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Directorate Communications
Press and Information Division
Kaiserstraße 29
D-60311 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 69 13 44 74 55
Fax: +49 69 13 44 74 04
E-mail: [email address]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacobo Elosua [mailto:[FOI #47 email]]
Sent: Thursday 19 January 2012 20:24
To: Press Office (Email)
Subject: access to information request - Communications with the Spanish

Dear European Central Bank,

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:

1) Any and all communications from the ECB addressed to the Spanish
Finance Minister (or his direct office) in the 40 days running up
to 12 May 2010.

Yours faithfully,

Jacobo Elosua

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the
TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been
sent via the AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this
request: [FOI #47 email]

If [email address] is the wrong address for information requests
to European Central Bank, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on
email [email address]

This message and all replies from European Central Bank will be
published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
dedicated page for EU public officials at
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers



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Any e-mail message from the European Central Bank (ECB) is sent in good faith but shall neither be binding nor construed as constituting a commitment by the ECB except where provided for in a written agreement. This e-mail is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. Any unauthorised disclosure, use or dissemination, either in whole or in part, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately via e-mail and delete this e-mail from your system.

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AsktheEU Admin a laissé une remarque ()

Jacobo,

There is no reason for them not to answer your request. We suggest you reply to them stating Article 6.1 of directive 1049/2001 that states you can make a request using 'any written form'.

Please see the other request made to the ECB since the same thing happened to his request. http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/lette...

Dear Sirs,

While I appreciate the availability of the form on your website, I
do not wish to submit my request using that method, nor is there is
an obligation for me to do so under Regulation 1049/2001. I submit
that my request is "any written form" as per:

Article 6:

Applications for access to a document shall be made in
any written form, including electronic form, in one of the
languages referred to in Article 314 of the EC Treaty and in a
sufficiently precise manner to enable the institution to identify
the document.

I look forward to hearing from you in the time period prescribed by
the Regulation.

Yours faithfully,

Jacobo Elosua

Banque centrale européenne

Dear Sir,

The ECB hereby confirms receipt, on 20 January 2012, of your application
for access to "Any and all communications from the ECB addressed to the
Spanish Finance Minister (or his direct office) in the 40 days running up
to 12 May 2010".

Your request has been registered and a reply will be provided to you
within the deadline foreseen by the ECB Decision on public access to
European Central Bank documents (ECB/2004/3).

Yours faithfully,

Secretariat Division
European Central Bank
Kaiserstrasse 29
60311 Frankfurt am Main.
[email address]

Phone+49 69 1344 0
Fax: +49 69 1344 6170

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacobo Elosua [[1]mailto:[FOI #47 email]]
Sent: Thursday 19 January 2012 20:24
To: Press Office (Email)
Subject: access to information request - Communications with the Spanish

     Dear European Central Bank,
    
     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:
    
     1) Any and all communications from the ECB addressed to the Spanish
     Finance Minister (or his direct office) in the 40 days running up
     to 12 May 2010.
    
     Yours faithfully,
    
     Jacobo Elosua
    
     -------------------------------------------------------------------
    
     This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the
     TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been
     sent via the AsktheEU.org website.
    
     Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this
     request: [FOI #47 email]
    
     If [email address] is the wrong address for information requests
     to European Central Bank, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on
     email [email address]
    
     This message and all replies from European Central Bank will be
     published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
     dedicated page for EU public officials at
     [2]http://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers
    
    
    
     -------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Any e-mail message from the European Central Bank (ECB) is sent in good
faith but shall neither be binding nor construed as constituting a
commitment by the ECB except where provided for in a written agreement.
This e-mail is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above.
Any unauthorised disclosure, use or dissemination, either in whole or in
part, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please
notify the sender immediately via e-mail and delete this e-mail from your
system.

 

References

Visible links
1. mailto:[FOI #47 email]
2. http://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers

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Banque centrale européenne

1 Attachment

Dear Sir

Further to your application for access to ECB documents, please find
attached the reply from the ECB's DG Secretariat and Language Services.

 
Yours faithfully,

Secretariat Division
European Central Bank
Kaiserstrasse 29
60311 Frankfurt
[ECB request email]

<<PA_2012_02_04 - Secretary Reply to original application.pdf>>

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Secretariat 
Sent:   30 January 2012 14:40
To:     '[FOI #47 email]'
Subject:        Your application for access to ECB documents
Importance:     High

Dear Sir,

The ECB hereby confirms receipt, on 20 January 2012, of your application
for access to "Any and all communications from the ECB addressed to the
Spanish Finance Minister (or his direct office) in the 40 days running
up to 12 May 2010".

Your request has been registered and a reply will be provided to you
within the deadline foreseen by the ECB Decision on public access to
European Central Bank documents (ECB/2004/3).

Yours faithfully,

Secretariat Division
European Central Bank
Kaiserstrasse 29
60311 Frankfurt am Main.
[email address]

Phone+49 69 1344 0
Fax: +49 69 1344 6170

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacobo Elosua [[1]mailto:[FOI #47 email]]
Sent: Thursday 19 January 2012 20:24
To: Press Office (Email)
Subject: access to information request - Communications with the Spanish

     Dear European Central Bank,
    
     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:
    
     1) Any and all communications from the ECB addressed to the Spanish
     Finance Minister (or his direct office) in the 40 days running up
     to 12 May 2010.
    
     Yours faithfully,
    
     Jacobo Elosua
    
     -------------------------------------------------------------------
    
     This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the
     TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been
     sent via the AsktheEU.org website.
    
     Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this
     request: [FOI #47 email]
    
     If [email address] is the wrong address for information requests
     to European Central Bank, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on
     email [email address]
    
     This message and all replies from European Central Bank will be
     published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
     dedicated page for EU public officials at
     [2]http://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers
    
    
    
     -------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Any e-mail message from the European Central Bank (ECB) is sent in good
faith but shall neither be binding nor construed as constituting a
commitment by the ECB except where provided for in a written agreement.
This e-mail is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above.
Any unauthorised disclosure, use or dissemination, either in whole or in
part, is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please
notify the sender immediately via e-mail and delete this e-mail from your
system.

 

References

Visible links
1. mailto:[FOI #47 email]
2. http://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers

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AsktheEU Admin a laissé une remarque ()

When a request is classified as information not held, it is usually for one of two reasons. Either the information exists but it is not held by the institution, or the information simply does not exist. In this particular case, the ECB has checked their records and found no communication from the ECB to the Spanish Finance Minister in the time period mentioned.

AsktheEU.org would consider this a satisfactory response as it appears that the ECB has made a good faith attempt to locate the documents and not found anything of relevance.