Meetings with fracking companies on Ukraine
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
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:
1- all correspondence (including email, SMS, private twitter and WhatsApp) since 1st February 2022 between Commission President Von der Leyen, and/or her cabinet and/or officials from the Secretariat-General, in particular RECOVER, with representatives from Chesapeake Energy, Coterra Energy, EOG Resources, EQT Corp in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the rePower communication was discussed.
2- any briefings prepared since 1st February 2022 for Commission President Von der Leyen, and/or her cabinet and/or officials from the Secretariat-General, in particular RECOVER, for meetings with representatives from Chesapeake Energy, Coterra Energy, EOG Resources, EQT Corp in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the rePower communication was discussed.
3 - list of meetings since since since 1st February 2022 between Commission President Von der Leyen, and/or her cabinet and/or officials from the Secretariat-General, in particular RECOVER, with representatives from Chesapeake Energy, Coterra Energy, EOG Resources, EQT Corp in which the EU’s response to Ukraine invasion, particularly the rePower communication was discussed.
4 - minutes of the meetings mentioned above
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.
To the extent possible, we prefer the documents in electronic format. Documents that cannot be sent in electronic format should be sent to Corporate Europe Observatory, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I 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.
Please find my postal address here:
Corporate Europe Observatory,
Rue d’Edimbourg 26,
Brussels 1050
Yours faithfully,
Pascoe Sabido
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 11/04/2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered on
12/04/2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/2141.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
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Dear Mr Sabido ,
We refer to your request for access to documents registered on 12.04.2022
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 today.
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 02.06.2022.
We thank you for your comprehension and apologise for this delay and for
any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
SG D2 Secretariat
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Dear Mr Sabido,
We refer to your request for access to documents registered on 12.04.2022
under the above mentioned reference number and to our extension of the
deadline email sent on 06.05.2022.
Your application is currently being handled.
However, we will not be in a position to complete the handling of your
application within the extended time limit.
Our colleagues make every effort to come back to you in the best delay
with the reply to your request.
We thank you for your comprehension and apologise for this delay and for
any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
SG D2 Secretariat
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Dear SG UNITE D-2,
Thank you for getting back to me.
Please do let me know when to expect the documents.
Yours sincerely,
Pascoe Sabido
Dear SG UNITE D-2,
By law, under all circumstances, you should have responded by now.
Please inform me when to expect the documents.
Yours sincerely,
Pascoe Sabido
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Dear Mr Sabido
Thank you for drawing this to our attention.
We are taking care of your request and you will receive a response very
shortly.
Yours sincerely
SG.D2 Secretariat
