correspondence John Mulligan

La demande est partiellement réussie.

Dear Secretariat General,

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 correspondence with John Mulligan, Focus on Romania, between 2001 and 2014. It concerns likely DG Enlargement, the Secretary General, and Irish Commissioners.

Yours faithfully,

Arun Dohle

Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your request for access to documents.

Unfortunately you have not indicated your postal address that is required 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.

You may, of course, use directly the electronic form for entering your request:

http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/...

Yours faithfully,

European Commission
SG.B.4/rc
Transparency

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Dear Secretariat General,

Hereby again postal address:

Arun Dohle

[postal address]

[postal address]

Yours faithfully,

Arun Dohle

Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

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Dear Mr. Dohle,
We refer to your e-mail dated 20/02/2015 in which you make a request for
access to documents.
Your application covers a potentially wide range of documents and would
require extensive searches, most of which cannot be performed by
electronic means.
 
You will no doubt understand that such a large number of very wide
requests cannot be handled in accordance with the normal rules on access
to documents. The search for documents that would fall within the scope of
your request would take considerable time, as the archives are not
designed for this type of search. It is only since 2010 that electronic
mail registration systems allow for searches by correspondent.
 
We would, therefore, suggest that you narrow down the scope of your
application in order to enable the Commission's services concerned to
handle them without creating a disproportionate administrative burden. In
accordance with Art. 6.3. of Regulation, we would therefore kindly ask you
to limit your request to those documents which can be dealt with within
the deadlines of Regulation (EC) 1049/2001 (cfr Strack judgment C 127/13),
for instance by limiting the time scope to the period after 2010 and/or
reducing the number of DGs concerned.
 
Please note that the time limit for replying to your request will only
start to run from the moment we receive your clarification.
 
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
BLURIOT-PUEBLA Madeleine
Cellule 'Accès aux documents'
 
European Commission
SG/B/4 - Transparence

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+32 2 296 09 97
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Dear Secretariat General,

I refer to your mail of 26 February 2015.

I do not agree that my request concerns a very large number of very wide requests.

It is a comparable request to this one
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/corre...
to which the Commission was able to provide access to the requested letters - even when dating from the nineties.

The fact that the Commission's mail registration system, before 2010, did not allow searches on correspondants, does in my opinion not dismiss the Commission of its obligations under Regulation 1049/2001.

The registration system in place before 2010 does have a search functio, according to this document.
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/edoc_ma...

Considering the above, I am of the opinion that it should not be too much of a burdon to request correspondence between Mr. John Mulligan (Focus on Romania) with

DG Enlargement/Commissioner
Secretary General
Irish Commissioner

for the period 2000 - 2014.

Yours faithfully,

Arun Dohle

Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

Le Secrétariat général organise ce vendredi 27 févier un Away-Day d'une
journée pour l'ensemble de son personnel. Votre message sera traité au
plus tard lundi matin. Nous vous remercions pour votre compréhension.

                                                  ***

The Secretariat-General is organising an Away-Day for its staff on Friday
27 February 2015. Your message will be read on Monday morning at the
latest.  Thank you for your understanding.

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time limit 20 March 2015

Dear Secretariat General,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Secretariat General's handling of my FOI request 'correspondence John Mulligan'.

The legal time limit has passed.

Looking forward to a reply as soon as possible, and in any case within 15 working days.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/corre...

Yours faithfully,

Arun Dohle

Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

Dear Mr Dohle,

On 29/03/2015, you sent the Commission's Secretariat-General requests for an internal review as regards your following access-to-documents requests:

(1) '…all correspondence with John Mulligan, Focus on Romania, between 2001 and 2014. It concerns likely DG Enlargement, the Secretary General and the Irish Commissioners' (submitted on 20/02/2015, clarifications provided on 27/02/2014).

(2) '…all correspondence (letters, emails and related notes) between Vice President of the European Parliament Mairead McGuinness and members of the Juncker Commission' (submitted on 20/02/2015, clarifications provided on 5/03/2015)

(3) '…all documents, correspondence etc, relating to the …Joint Action Funding European Expert Group' (submitted on 20/02/2015).

We would like to inform you that due to an unfortunate administrative oversight your above requests have not been duly registered in the Commission's database for handling access-to-documents applications (Gestdem). Consequently, your requests have not been attributed at the time to the responsible Commission's services for handling and you have not been able to receive the respective replies timely.

As soon as we realised what has happened, we immediately registered your above requests by giving them Gestdem numbers and have assigned them to the relevant services for treatment. The Gestdem references of your requests are as follows:

Request 1: Gestdem 2015/1918 and Gestdem 2015/1919

Request 2: Gestdem 2015/1922

Request 3: Gestdem 2015/1924

In view of the time that has elapsed, we have also asked the responsible services to process your requests as quickly as possible.

The reasons for your emails of 29/03/2015 was the absence of a reply at the initial level. Before dealing with the requests at the confirmatory level, we would like to provide you with the initial position of the relevant services. Therefore, your above requests will first be dealt at the initial level. Pursuant to Article 7(2) of Regulation 1049/2001, you will be entitled to submit a confirmatory application, if you so wish.

Please accept our sincere apology for the unfortunate administrative oversight on our part. We would like to assure you that we have taken all the necessary steps in order to deal with your above applications as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

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Time Limit 20 April 2015

Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

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Dear Sir,

We refer to your request addressed to the Secretariat-General dated
29/03/2015 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered
on 30 March 2015 under the above mentioned reference number.

We have identified the following documents as falling under the scope of
this request:

o Mail by Ms Shane Sutherland, cabinet of Commissioner McCreevy, to Mr
Mulligan of 21.02.2005;
o Mail by Mr Mulligan to Catherine Day, Secretary General, of
12.02.2006;
o Mail by Mr Mulligan to Commissioner McCreevy of 13.02.2006;
o Mail by Mr Mulligan to Commissioner Rehn of 06.04.2006;
o Mail by Mr Mulligan to Commissioner McCreevy of 24.04.2009.

 

Having examined these documents, we are pleased to announce that they can
be fully disclosed. Please find copies of the above-mentioned documents
annexed.

 

Yours faithfully,

The NEAR-ACCDOC Team

 

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Dear Secretariat General,

I hereby request to register my confirmatory appeal of 21 April (see below), as the reply I received at 23 April from DG NEAR only concerned correspondance between former Commissioner McCreevy and Mr. John Mulligan.

I did not receive access to correspondance with DG Enlargement, and Commissioner Verheugen/Rehn and their Cabinets.

Therefore I insist on maintaining the confirmatory appeal.

Yours faithfully,

Arun Dohle

From: Arun Dohle

April 21, 2015

Dear Secretariat General,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Secretariat General's
handling of my FOI request (1) '…all correspondence with John
Mulligan, Focus on Romania, between 2001 and 2014. It concerns
likely DG Enlargement, the Secretary General and the Irish
Commissioners' (submitted on 20/02/2015)
Gestdem 2015/1918 and Gestdem 2015/1919

On 26 February the General Secretariat informed me that such a
large number of very wide requests could not be handled in
accordance with the normal rules on access to documents, as the
archives were not designed for this type of search. According to
the mail it was only since 2010 that electronic mail registration
systems allowed for searches by correspondent.

On 27 February I replied, informing the General Secretariat that
according to the Commission's E-doc manual, the Adonis registration
system does have a search function,
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/edoc_ma...
Furthermore the Commission, for comparable requests, had been able
to provide access to the requested
letters - even when dating from the nineties.
Therefore I maintained my request.

By email of 29/03/2015 I handed in a confirmatory appeal because of
the absence of a reply (expiration of time limit).

On 30 March I was informed that due to an unfortunate
administrative oversight my requests was not duly registered in the
Commission's database for handling access-to-documents applications
(Gestdem). Consequently, my request had not been attributed at the
time to the responsible Commission's services for handling and
that's why I had not received the reply timely.

Instead of dealing with my confirmatory appeal, the General
Secretarait proposed to provide me with the initial position of the
relevant services.

I accepted that proposal, because of the sincere apology for the
unfortunate administrative oversight and the assurance that the
General Secretariat would take all necessary steps in order to deal
with my application as soon as possible.

Unfortunately the time limit of 15 working days has now expired and
I did not receive a reply, nor a notice for the need for extention
of the time limit.

Therefore I now hand in a confirmatory appeal.

In view of transparency and accountability to the European
Citizens, I request access to the documents I requested.

Considering that some of these documents are already in the public
domain, assumingly made available by the author himself, I consider
it in the public interest to have access to all
documents/correspondance related to this Irish NGO lobby effort:

To: Ms Catherine Day, Secretary General, the European Commission.

From: John Mulligan, Chairman, Focus on Romania.

Subject: Briefing note on Romanian Human Rights issues.

I refer to our short discussion in Dublin on Friday 10th February,
following your informative summary the state of the EU in 2006.
Such briefings are very useful in informing various interest groups
as to the challenges facing the Commission, and I found your
presentation to be both interesting and informative. Any briefing
process however has to have a two-way element in order to be of
real value; I hope that some of the queries raised were of equal
value in giving you a perspective on the problems of persuading the
civil servants within the Commission as to the need to look again
at some issues which they may consider as being closed.

http://astateofaffairs.blogspot.be/2006/...

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/corre...

Yours faithfully,

Arun Dohle

Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

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Dear Mr. Dohle,

 

Your initial request registered under GestDem 2015/1919 was: " All
correspondence with John Mulligan, Focus on Romania, between 2001 and
2014. It concerns likely DG Enlargement, the Secretary General, and Irish
Commissioners."

 

Documents concerning Commissioner Verheugen and Rehn did not fall under
the scope of your request. Despite of this fact DG NEAR (formerly
Enlargement) already included documents concerning Commissioner Rehn in
their search and no documents were identified.

 

Having exhaustively searched, DG NEAR replied to your request positively
on 23 April and you received all documents that were identified from the
former McCreevy Cabinet, the Secretariat General and DG NEAR.

 

Your request, concerning documents of Commissioner Verheugen and his
Cabinet therefore cannot be handled as a confirmatory request, but as a
new initial request under a new reference number: GestDem 2015/2688.

 

For the identification of the documents, we would appreciate confirmation
from you that you wish to obtain documents of Commissioner Verheugen when
he was Commissioner for Enlargement.

Please note that the 15 working days time limit for handling your
application will start running when we receive the requested
clarification.

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards,

 

ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (66)

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