Feedback on Digital Services Act (DSA) Transparency Database
Alexander Fanta a fait une demande de Accès à l'information à Réseaux de communication, contenu et technologies
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Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
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 replies from providers of online platforms and trade associations, industry groups as part of the public consultation on the Digital Services Act (DSA) Transparency Database
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
netzpolitik.org e.V.
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
10119 Berlin
Germany
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
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Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
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Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
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im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 18/07/2023 and registered on 18/07/2023 under the case number
2023/4175.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 08/08/2023. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Mr Fanta,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/4175.
Kind regards,
DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Rue de la Loi 51
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
I understand your workload is heavy. Regarding your proposal for a "fair solution", I find it difficult to pick 15 documents without having a list of those available. Would you be able to provide me with such a list? Or, alternatively, could you provide all 18 documents from providers of online platforms?
As a side note - aren't replies to public consultations usually public?
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/4175.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
European Commission
DG CONNECT — ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
Rue de la Loi, 51
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Feedback on Digital Services Act (DSA) Transparency Database'.
I would like to request disclosure of documents 10-18. I argue that DG Connect applied the exception regarding commercial interests in an overly broad manner. European Ombudsman rulings state that as not all information about a company is commercially sensitive, a test should be performed each time to conclude whether the exception applies (see European Ombudsman Case: 1701/2011/ANA 24 June 2013; Case: 676/2008/RT 07 July 2010.) The goal should be to determine whether disclosure would actually undermine the commercial interests of the company (see European Ombudsman Case: 1922/2014/PL 30 August 2016).
I note that the Commission is not bound by objections from the third party involved. Additionally, I would like to point to the ECJ's judgement in MSD v EMA (C‑178/18 P), in which the court held in regard to a disclosure made by the European Medicines Agency that 'a mere unsubstantiated claim relating to a general risk of misuse cannot lead to the data being considered covered by the exception'.
I ask the Commission to re-examine my request and explain how access to the documents in question could specifically and actually undermine the interest protected by that exception, and how the risk of the interest being undermined would be reasonably foreseeable and not purely hypothetical. Should it not find this to be the case, I ask for full release of the documents in question.
Further, I note that as the documents in question regard a key measure in implementation of the Digital Services Act, they should be regarded as pertaining to the institution acting in a law-making capacity, which as recital 6 of the regulation states explicitly includes its delegated powers. I argue that in understanding the decision-making of the Commission and the objections of the stakeholders provides an overriding public interest in disclosure.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/feedb...
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2023/4175, sent on 29/09/2023 and registered on 29/09/2023.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 20/10/2023. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2023/4175, sent on 29/09/2023 and registered on 29/09/2023.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 20/10/2023. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Dear Mr Fanta,
We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case 2023/4175 registered on 29/09/2023.
We are currently working on your confirmatory request. However, we have
not yet been able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full
analysis of your request. Due to the need to conduct internal
consultations, we will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 20/10/2023.
Therefore, in line with Article 8(2) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 we
need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new time
limit expires on 14/11/2023.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
SG.C1 - Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
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Dear Mr Fanta,
We are writing to you concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case 2023/4175, registered on 29/09/2023.
On 20/10/2023, we extended the time-limit for replying to your
confirmatory request to 14/11/2023.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to send you the reply within this
extended time limit.
However, we assure you that we are doing our best to send a reply to your
confirmatory request as soon as possible.
We regret this additional delay and sincerely apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
SG.C1 - Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Dear Sir,
Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision
C(2024)1660 as adopted by the European Commission on 07.03.2024.
The formal notification of the decision under Article 297 TFEU is being
made only in electronic form.
Could you please confirm receipt of the attached document by return
e-mail?
Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Access to documents team - cr
SG.C.1
Transparency