Meeting on 18 February 2021 - Pact for Skills Roundtable, Cabinet of Thierry Beton and representatives of the Agri-food industry

La demande est réussie.

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes (hand written or electronic), notes (hand written or electronic), meeting conclusions, audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the Pact for Skills Roundtable, meeting on 18 February 2021 attended by Agnieszka Skonieczna
and Eszter Batta (Cabinet of Thierry Beton) and representatives of the Agri-food industry (Food Drink Europe, Suedzucker AG, Nestlé, CEMA, CLITRAVI, CEFS, AgriFood LT, EFFAT, FIAB, CEJA, Unilever, COPA and Federalimentare).

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Rachel Cox, Global Witness, Rue du Commerce 31, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely Rachel Cox

GROW-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Marché intérieur, Industrie, Entrepreneuriat et PME

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Cox <[FOI #9516 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 2:00 PM
To: GROW ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG GROW request email]>
Subject: access to documents request - Meeting on 18 February 2021 - Pact for Skills Roundtable, Cabinet of Thierry Beton and representatives of the Agri-food industry

Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,

Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:

All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes (hand written or electronic), notes (hand written or electronic), meeting conclusions, audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the Pact for Skills Roundtable, meeting on 18 February 2021 attended by Agnieszka Skonieczna and Eszter Batta (Cabinet of Thierry Beton) and representatives of the Agri-food industry (Food Drink Europe, Suedzucker AG, Nestlé, CEMA, CLITRAVI, CEFS, AgriFood LT, EFFAT, FIAB, CEJA, Unilever, COPA and Federalimentare).

In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.

I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.

Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.

Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation.

If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Rachel Cox, Global Witness, Rue du Commerce 31, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours sincerely Rachel Cox

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Dear Ms Cox,

 

Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents.

 

According to the standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also
sent to you by registered mail. Please note, however, that due to the
extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during the
COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission
non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to
follow this procedure until further notice. 

 

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present
e-mail by replying to [1][DG GROW request email].

 

Kind 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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