Letter Denmark about Hague Adoption Convention
Dear Justice and Consumers,
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:
-Letter of Danish Permanent Representation to the European Commission - dated 28 March 2006 - as well as the Commission's reply.
Please make this information public on the Ask the EU website.
Yours faithfully,
Arun Dohle
Dear Sir,
You have addressed a number of requests to DG JUSTICE in the last days. So
far, we have used the addressed you have provided for previous
applications. However, in two of these last requests you clearly indicate
that you do not wish to receive physical correspondence to your address.
With respect to this request, I would like to recall that the provision of
a postal address is from 1 April 2014 a mandatory feature for the purpose
of introducing a request for access to documents, irrespective of the
possibility to post electronically the Commission reply and the released
documents on a website.
The decision to ask for a postal address from applicants for access to
documents was triggered by the following considerations:
• The need to obtain legal certainty as regards the date of receipt
of the reply by the applicant under Regulation 1049/2001. Indeed, as
foreseen by Article 297 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union (TFEU), […] decisions which specify to whom they are addressed shall
be notified to those to whom they are addressed and shall take effect upon
such notification. Replies triggering the possibility for administrative
or judicial redress are therefore transmitted via registered mail with
acknowledgement of receipt. This requires an indication of a valid postal
address by the applicant;
• The need to direct the Commission's scarce resources first of all
to those requests which have been filed by "real" applicants. With only a
compulsory indication of an e-mail address, applicants can easily
introduce requests under an invented identity or under the identity of a
third person. Asking for a postal address helps the Commission to protect
the administration, as well as other citizens and legal persons, from
abuse;
• For similar reasons, asking for a compulsory indication of a postal
address enables the Commission services to verify whether Article 6(3) of
the Regulation, on voluminous requests, is being evaded by introducing
several requests under different identities. Indeed, in its Ryanair
judgment, the General Court confirmed that Article 6(3) cannot be evaded
by splitting the application into a number of applications. The Commission
would like to point out that, in 2012/2013, it received some 57
confirmatory requests from what it suspects to be one single applicant
operating under 13 different identities;
• Knowing whether the applicant is an EU resident in the sense of
Article 2(1) of Regulation 1049/2001 is a precondition for the purpose of
correctly applying the exception in Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation
1049/2001 (protection of the privacy and integrity of the individual),
which has to be interpreted in accordance with Data Protection Regulation
45/2001. Article 9 of Regulation 45/2001 requires the adequacy of the
level of protection afforded by the third country or international
organisation when transmitting personal data to third-country residents or
legal persons. It follows that, in case of requests for documents which
include personal data, the correct application of the data protection
rules cannot be ensured in the absence of a postal address enabling the
Commission to ascertain that the minimum data protection standards will be
respected.
All of these considerations show that the request for and the consequent
processing of a postal address is not only appropriate but also strictly
necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest
within the meaning of Article 5 (a) of Data Protection Regulation 45/2001,
namely providing a smooth and effective access to documents. On 28 April
2015, the European Data Protection Supervisor decided on a complaint
against the European Commission relating to personal information (postal
address) asked by the Commission in the context of access to documents
requests lodged pursuant to Regulation (EC) 1049/2001. He concluded that
our policy is in line with Regulation (EC) 45/2001.
We therefore kindly ask you to provide a full postal address, so we can
duly register and handle your requests. Please note that, once we receive
your postal address, we will register your request for access as an
initial application for access to documents in the meaning of Article 6(1)
of Regulation 1049/2001. The deadline for handling your initial request
shall run as from the moment of registration of your request following the
submission of your postal address.
As for the fact that you postal address may appear on our correspondence
as published on the webpages of AsktheEU, it is always possible to blacken
the relevant lines so as it does not become of public domain.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
JUSTICE ACCESS TO DOCUMENT TEAM
From: Arun Dohle
June 16, 2015
From: Arun Dohle
June 16, 2015
Dear Justice and Consumers,
It is with disbelief that I see how my request are dealt with.
Either an immediate reply, without asking for an address. Or this long legal mail.
Anyway, hereby my physical address. Please register my request without further delay and I am looking forward to the documents within the 15 working day time limit.
Please make the documents accessible to the large public through the Ask the EU website, as a reply to this email.
Best regards,
Arun Dohle
Arun Dohle
Viktoriastr. 46
52066 Aachen
Dear Mr Dohle,
Thank you for your request dated 14/06/2015 and your e-mail dated 16/06/2015. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your request for access to documents which was registered on 17/06/2015 under reference GestDem 2015/3190.
In accordance with Regulation 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on 08/07/2015. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
Yours faithfully,
JUST ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
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Dear Mr Dohle,
Following your request of 14 June 2015, registered under GESTDEM
2015/3190, we regret to inform you that, on the basis of the information
you have provided (Letter of Danish Permanent Representation to the
European Commission - dated 28 March 2006 - as well as the Commission's
reply) we have not been able to find anything.
It would help if you could communicate the subject of this letter, to
which Cabinet or Commission's service it was sent, and any other
information useful to identify it.
Best regards,
Secretariat
European Commission
Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers
Civil Justice Policy Unit
Dear Justice and Consumers,
The letter was on 3rd May 2006 forwarded by JLS.C1 to the assistant of the Director General for Enlargement. The Danish Permanent Representation in Brussels received that day a letter about this from JLS.C1.
The subject was the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption.
Yours faithfully,
Arun Dohle
Dear Mr Dohle,
Please find attached the exchange of letters required:
-reattribution letter from JLS C1 to DG Enlargement dated 3 May 2006;
-letter from JLS C1 to Danish Permanent Representation dated 3 May 2006;
-letter from Danish Permanent Representation dated 28 March 2006
Best regards,
Secretariat
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European Commission
Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers
Civil Justice Policy Unit
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Dear Justice and Consumers,
Thank you for this.
I note that the reply from DG Enlargement is not included. I will ask that from DG NEAR now.
Yours faithfully,
Arun Dohle
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Time limit 8 July 2015