DG GROW meetings list
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
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:
- list of all meetings held by DG GROW with external stakeholders related directly or indirectly to industry alliances (European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, European Battery Alliance, Circular Plastics Alliance, European Raw Materials Alliance, CRM Alliance, etc.) from 8-2021 until today
- all documentation (including but not limited to all email correspondence, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, transcripts and recordings), as well as the meeting minutes or notes relating to the following meetings in which DG GROW participated: EU Clean Hydrogen Alliance meetings with NGOs 15.1.2021, 22.4.2021, 3.6.2021, EU Raw Materials Alliance meetings 6.10.2020 (Sectoral Dialogue on extractive industries), 5.11.2020 (Finnish Minerals Group), 27.11.2020 (CRM Alliance), 14.12.2020 (Rio Tinto), 6.5.2021 (ERMA representatives), 21.4.2021, 3.5.2021, 5.5.2021, 17.5.2021, 23.6.2021, 9.7.2021, 14.7.2021 (EIT Raw Materials)
Yours faithfully,
Nik Völker, MiningWatch Portugal
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 22 October 2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 25 October 2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/6341.
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Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
Dear Sir,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 25/10/2021
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 expires on 17/11/2021.
An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns documents
held by different Services which must be consulted.
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 08/12/2021.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
Dear Sir,
We refer to your e-mail dated 22/10/2021 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 25/10/2021 under the above mentioned
reference number.
The reply to your request could not be finalised today. Therefore, we are
not in a position to complete the handling of your application within the
extended time limit of 15 working days, which expires today. Please be
reassured that we are doing our best to be able to send you the reply in
the coming days.
We apologise for this additional delay and for any inconvenience this may
cause.
Kind regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
Dear Mr Völker,
Please find enclosed the reply to your request for access to documents
registered under the above-mentioned reference number.
According to our standard operational procedure, the reply would normally
be sent to you also by registered mail. Please note, however, that due to
the extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during
to the COVID-19 pandemic, which include the requirement for the majority
of Commission non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in
a position to follow this procedure until further notice.
We would therefore appreciate it if you could confirm the receipt of this
e-mail by replying to [1][DG GROW request email]
Best regards,
DG GROW – Access to documents team
[2]cid:479385507@17082012-2045
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Briefings
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