DG DEVCO contacts with Clifford Chance

International Cooperation and Development n'avait pas les informations demandées.

Dear Development & Cooperation - EuropeAid (DEVCO),

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents,
including notes of minutes, emails and other correspondence,
relating to contacts between staff of DG DEVCO and staff of law
firm Clifford Chance, between January 2008 and February 2013.

Yours faithfully,

Rachel Tansey

International Cooperation and Development

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Dear Ms Tansey,
 
We refer to your email of 6 February 2013, in which you submit a request
for access to all documents, including notes of minutes, emails and other
correspondence, relating to contacts  between staff of the
Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid and staff
of law firm Clifford Chance, between January 2008 and February 2013.
 
This is a very broadly formulated request, which would require extensive
searches on different locations. It is not really feasible to retrieve
documents on these criteria. In particular, for a significant part of the
period covered by your request, there is no central electronic archiving
of correspondence. Therefore, searches in paper files would be necessary,
which would be very labour-intensive and time consuming.
 
Furthermore, correspondence with law firms may cover very different
subjects and some of it is likely to be confidential in nature.
 
Consequently, we are unable to handle your request in its present form. We
would kindly ask you to make a more targeted request.
 
Yours sincerely,  
 
Fernando Cristóbal
Deputy Head of Unit 
 
European Commission
DG for Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid
Training, Knowledge Management, Document Management Unit 
L 41 06/162
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
 
 

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Dear Development & Cooperation - EuropeAid (DEVCO),

In accordance with your request for a more targeted access to documents request - due to the labour-intensive and time consuming nature of dealing with my request as previously formulated - I will narrow the time period and scope of my request as follows.

I will reduce the time span of my request to one year, from February 2012 to February 2013. I trust that this will address the issue of having no central electronic archiving of correspondence, for a significant part of the period covered by my original request (Jan 2008-Feb 2013).

Furthermore, since Clifford Chance is a large, multinational law firm, with branches all over the world, I will reduce the scope of my request to cover only correspondence between staff of DG DEVCO and three particular branches of Clifford Chance: the Brussels, Paris and London offices of Clifford Chance.

Yours faithfully,

Rachel Tansey

International Cooperation and Development

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Dear Madam,
 
Thank you for your e-mail dated 12/02/2013 concerning exchanging of
correspondence with Clifford Chance from February 2012 to February 2013. 
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was registered under reference number GestDem 2013/589.
 
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. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
 
European Commission
Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid
Document Management

B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
 

International Cooperation and Development

Dear Ms Tansey,

We refer to your e-mail dated 08/02/2013 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered under the above mentioned reference number.
I regret to inform you that, after proceeding to a wide search in the register of correspondence as well as in the electronic filing repository of documents of this Directorate General, we have not found any reference of documents received from or addressed to the entity "Clifford Chance".

Yours faithfully,

Fernando Cristóbal
Deputy Head of Unit
European Commission
DG for Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid
Training, Knowledge Management, Document Management Unit
L 41 06/162
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium

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