Our reference: 2024-0425

Dear Ms. Arun,

The European Parliament hereby acknowledges receipt of your message, which
was registered on April 30, 2024.

All applications for public access to documents are treated in compliance
with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access
to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

In accordance with the above-mentioned Regulation, your application will
be handled within 15 working days upon registration of your request.

Your personal data will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU)
2018/1725 of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with
regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions,
bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data. A
detailed privacy statement is available [1]here.

The European Parliament reserves the right to ask for additional
information regarding your identity in order to verify compliance with
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and the European Parliament’s implementing
measures.

Your attention is drawn to the fact that you have lodged your application
via the AsktheEU.org website, which is a private website not officially
related to the European Parliament. Therefore, the European Parliament
cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to
the use of this system.

In addition, please note that any personal data that you provide by using
AsktheEU.org website may be disclosed to the general public and visible on
this private website. The European Parliament cannot be held responsible
for such disclosure. Should you need to communicate directly to Parliament
any personal data and would like to avoid public disclosure, you may do so
from your private email address by using the following functional mailbox
address: AccesDocs(at)europarl.europa.eu

Best regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[2][European Parliament request email]
[3]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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Our reference: 2024 - 0425

Dear Mr Dohle,

Further to your application submitted under [1]Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 requesting documents related to the event The Dark side of
adoption organised by the Intergroup Integrity, Transparency, Corruption
and Organised Crime, please be kindly informed that intergroups, though
are composed of MEPs and recognised by the Parliament, are not official
Parliament bodies. Therefore, the Parliament does not hold any document
concerned by your request within the meaning of Article 2(3) of Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 (see also [2]Rule 122 of Parliament’s Rules of
Procedure).

More precisely, according to the rules of the Parliament governing the
intergroups (see in particular [3]Rule 35 of the Parliament’s Rules of
Procedure and [4]the other rules governing of the establishment of the
intergroups), intergroups are not to pursue official activities on behalf
of the Parliament or its bodies and they or their activities are not to be
confused with them or the activities of the Parliament. Consequently, in
the case of an event held by an intergroup, even if an event has taken
place on the Parliament’s premises and/or with using the Parliament’s
technical facilities, Parliament would not hold any documents.

As for further information concerned by your request you might consider
contacting the members of the intergroup in question (please follow
[5]this link).

On this basis Parliament considers your request handled and the file
closed.

Please do not hesitate to [6]submit a new request should you identify
specific Parliament documents for which you would like to request public
access.

Kind regards, 

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[7][European Parliament request email]
[8]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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8. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

Our reference: 2024-0425

Dear Mr Dohle,

Further to your follow-up message, Parliament draws your attention to the
fact that a request for information does not fall within the scope of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, which covers access to the institution's
documents.

Please be kindly informed that intergroups may be financed from different
sources, and that their declarations of financial interests, since 2021,
are available on the individual intergroup pages via the following
[2]link.

For further clarifications relevant to your query you may consider
contacting [3]AskEP.

On this basis, Parliament considers your application as handled and the
file closed.

Should you have any [4]new requests for specific Parliament documents,
please do not hesitate to come back to us.

Kind regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[5][European Parliament request email]
[6]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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4. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreW...
5. mailto:[European Parliament request email]
6. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb