Meetings with stakeholders

La demande est partiellement réussie.

Margarida da Silva

Dear DG Trade,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents related to the following meetings:

From Director-General Weyland:
• 03/10/19 American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) -EU-US Trade
• 27/06/2019 McLarty Associates - EU-US Relations
• 31/10/2019 DIGITALEUROPE (DE) - Digital issues, US-China trade
• 31/03/2020 Centre for European Reform (CER) - EU's trade policy fit in the 21st century

From former European Commissioner Hogan:
• 11/12/19 - IBM Corporation (IBM) Presentation of IBM’s point of view on digital trade and the priorities of the new Commission
• 16/10/2019 - Airbnb Ireland UC RURAL TOURISM
• 23/01/2020 - Apple Inc. Trade Issues
• 22/01/2020 - VMware International Unlimited Company Trade Issues
• 21/01/2020 - Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco) Trade Issues
• 04/02/20 - DIGITALEUROPE (DE) Trade Issues
• 29/04/2020 - American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) Trade issues
• 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Trade Issues
• 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Trade Issues
• 07/05/20 . Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e. V. (Bitkom) Digital Trade. Covid -19
• 30/06/2020 - Microsoft Corporation - Trade issues

In particular I am looking for:
- all agendas for each of these meetings;
- any record of the aforementioned meetings. This may include, but not necessarily be limited to, minutes of the meetings, verbatim reports of the meetings, transcripts etc, that would provide a record of the proceedings of the meetings;
- all documents prepared or received for the purpose of these meetings and/or distributed among the attendees before or during the course of these meetings (such as – but not limited to – handouts, leaflets, briefings or background notes).
- all correspondence sent or received in preparation for these meetings and/or in order to arrange these meetings, including all attachments
- all documents prepared or received with regards to and/or as a follow up to these meetings; and
- all correspondence sent or received with regards to and/or as a follow up to these meetings, including all attachments.

Yours faithfully,
Margarida da Silva
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d'edimbourg 26
1050 Belgique

TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Commerce

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail of 28 April 2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 30 April 2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/2824.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 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 26 May 2021. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

Please note that the private third party running the [AsktheEU.org] website is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data via that website, and not the Commission. For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.
We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by the AsktheEU.org website.

If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address, and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply from, the Commission.

For information on how we process your personal data visit our page https://ec.europa.eu/info/principles-and....

Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team
DG TRADE

-----Original Message-----
From: Margarida da Silva <[FOI #9393 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 5:05 PM
To: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG TRADE request email]>
Subject: access to documents request - Meetings with stakeholders

Dear DG Trade,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents related to the following meetings:

From Director-General Weyland:
• 03/10/19 American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) -EU-US Trade
• 27/06/2019 McLarty Associates - EU-US Relations
• 31/10/2019 DIGITALEUROPE (DE) - Digital issues, US-China trade
• 31/03/2020 Centre for European Reform (CER) - EU's trade policy fit in the 21st century

From former European Commissioner Hogan:
• 11/12/19 - IBM Corporation (IBM) Presentation of IBM’s point of view on digital trade and the priorities of the new Commission
• 16/10/2019 - Airbnb Ireland UC RURAL TOURISM
• 23/01/2020 - Apple Inc. Trade Issues
• 22/01/2020 - VMware International Unlimited Company Trade Issues
• 21/01/2020 - Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco) Trade Issues
• 04/02/20 - DIGITALEUROPE (DE) Trade Issues
• 29/04/2020 - American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) Trade issues
• 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Trade Issues
• 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Trade Issues
• 07/05/20 . Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e. V. (Bitkom) Digital Trade. Covid -19
• 30/06/2020 - Microsoft Corporation - Trade issues

In particular I am looking for:
- all agendas for each of these meetings;
- any record of the aforementioned meetings. This may include, but not necessarily be limited to, minutes of the meetings, verbatim reports of the meetings, transcripts etc, that would provide a record of the proceedings of the meetings;
- all documents prepared or received for the purpose of these meetings and/or distributed among the attendees before or during the course of these meetings (such as – but not limited to – handouts, leaflets, briefings or background notes).
- all correspondence sent or received in preparation for these meetings and/or in order to arrange these meetings, including all attachments
- all documents prepared or received with regards to and/or as a follow up to these meetings; and
- all correspondence sent or received with regards to and/or as a follow up to these meetings, including all attachments.

Yours faithfully,
Margarida da Silva
Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d'edimbourg 26
1050 Belgique

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Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request: [FOI #9393 email]

If [DG TRADE request email] is the wrong address for information requests to Trade, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email [email address]

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TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Commerce

1 Attachment

Dear Madam,

We refer to your request for access to documents, registered under above
mentioned number.

Your application is currently being processed. However, the handling of
your application has taken more time than planned and 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.

In order to finalize the response to your request, 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 16 June 2021.

We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

Yours sincerely,

Access to Documents Team

European Commission
DG TRADE

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG TRADE request email]>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 4:38 PM
To: 'Margarida da Silva' <[FOI #9393 email]>
Cc: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG TRADE request email]>
Subject: RE: access to documents request - Meetings with stakeholders -
Acknowledgement

 

Dear Madam,

 

Thank you for your e-mail of 28 April 2021. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 30
April 2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/2824.

 

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 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 26
May 2021. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be
informed in due course.

 

You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union. Therefore, the
European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or
problems linked to the use of this system.

 

Please note that the private third party running the [AsktheEU.org]
website is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal
data via that website, and not the Commission. For further information on
your rights, please refer to the third party’s privacy policy.

We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).

 

Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
the AsktheEU.org website.

 

If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is
published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can
provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
correspondence.  In that case, the Commission will send all future
electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address,
and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You
should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website
about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply
from, the Commission.

 

For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
[1]https://ec.europa.eu/info/principles-and....

 

 

Yours faithfully,

Access to Documents Team

DG TRADE

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Margarida da Silva <[2][FOI #9393 email]>

Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 5:05 PM

To: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[3][DG TRADE request email]>

Subject: access to documents request - Meetings with stakeholders

 

Dear DG Trade,

 

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents related to the
following meetings:

 

From Director-General Weyland:

    • 03/10/19 American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham
EU) -EU-US Trade

    • 27/06/2019  McLarty Associates - EU-US Relations

    • 31/10/2019 DIGITALEUROPE (DE) - Digital issues, US-China trade

    • 31/03/2020  Centre for European Reform (CER) - EU's trade policy fit
in the 21st century

 

From former European Commissioner Hogan: 

    • 11/12/19 - IBM Corporation (IBM)   Presentation of IBM’s point of
view on digital trade and the priorities of the new Commission

    • 16/10/2019  - Airbnb Ireland UC      RURAL TOURISM

    • 23/01/2020 - Apple Inc.       Trade Issues

    • 22/01/2020 - VMware International Unlimited Company     Trade Issues

    • 21/01/2020 - Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco)        Trade Issues

    • 04/02/20 - DIGITALEUROPE (DE)      Trade Issues

    • 29/04/2020 - American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union
(AmCham EU) Trade issues

    • 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
   Trade Issues

    • 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
Trade Issues

    • 07/05/20 . Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation
und neue Medien e. V. (Bitkom)              Digital Trade. Covid -19

    • 30/06/2020 - Microsoft Corporation - Trade issues

 

In particular I am looking for:

- all agendas for each of these meetings;

- any record of the aforementioned meetings. This may include, but not
necessarily be limited to, minutes of the meetings, verbatim reports of
the meetings, transcripts etc, that would provide a record of the
proceedings of the meetings;

- all documents prepared or received for the purpose of these meetings
and/or distributed among the attendees before or during the course of
these meetings (such as – but not limited to – handouts, leaflets,
briefings or background notes).

- all correspondence sent or received in preparation for these meetings
and/or in order to arrange these meetings, including all attachments

- all documents prepared or received with regards to and/or as a follow up
to these meetings; and

- all correspondence sent or received with regards to and/or as a follow
up to these meetings, including all attachments.

 

Yours faithfully,

Margarida da Silva

Corporate Europe Observatory

Rue d'edimbourg 26

1050 Belgique

 

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU
and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the
AsktheEU.org website.

 

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[4][FOI #9393 email]

 

If [5][DG TRADE request email] is the wrong address for
information requests to Trade, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email
[6][email address]

 

This message and all replies from Trade will be published on the
AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our dedicated page for EU
public officials at
[7]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www....

 

Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.

 

 

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TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Commerce

Dear Ms da Silva,

 

Your file is currently being processed and we will be able to respond to
your request shortly.

 

Before finalising the list of documents related to your request, I would
be grateful if you could clarify the following:

 

In your request you have asked for:

 

'- all correspondence sent or received in preparation for these meetings
and/or in order to arrange these meetings, including all attachments'.

 

We would like to be sure that you are looking for correspondence on
substance and not for messages between the concerned secretariats covering
logistical aspects in setting up meetings. Grateful for your clarification
on this point.

 

Kind regards,

Access to documents team DG TRADE

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Margarida da Silva <[FOI #9393 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 5:05 PM
To: TRADE ACCES DOCUMENTS <[DG TRADE request email]>
Subject: access to documents request - Meetings with stakeholders

 

Dear DG Trade,

 

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents related to the
following meetings:

 

From Director-General Weyland:

    • 03/10/19 American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham
EU) -EU-US Trade

    • 27/06/2019  McLarty Associates - EU-US Relations

    • 31/10/2019 DIGITALEUROPE (DE) - Digital issues, US-China trade

    • 31/03/2020  Centre for European Reform (CER) - EU's trade policy fit
in the 21st century

 

From former European Commissioner Hogan: 

    • 11/12/19 - IBM Corporation (IBM)   Presentation of IBM’s point of
view on digital trade and the priorities of the new Commission

    • 16/10/2019  - Airbnb Ireland UC      RURAL TOURISM

    • 23/01/2020 - Apple Inc.       Trade Issues

    • 22/01/2020 - VMware International Unlimited Company     Trade Issues

    • 21/01/2020 - Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco)        Trade Issues

    • 04/02/20 - DIGITALEUROPE (DE)      Trade Issues

    • 29/04/2020 - American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union
(AmCham EU) Trade issues

    • 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
   Trade Issues

    • 05/03/20 - ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
Trade Issues

    • 07/05/20 . Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation
und neue Medien e. V. (Bitkom)              Digital Trade. Covid -19

    • 30/06/2020 - Microsoft Corporation - Trade issues

 

In particular I am looking for:

- all agendas for each of these meetings;

- any record of the aforementioned meetings. This may include, but not
necessarily be limited to, minutes of the meetings, verbatim reports of
the meetings, transcripts etc, that would provide a record of the
proceedings of the meetings;

- all documents prepared or received for the purpose of these meetings
and/or distributed among the attendees before or during the course of
these meetings (such as – but not limited to – handouts, leaflets,
briefings or background notes).

- all correspondence sent or received in preparation for these meetings
and/or in order to arrange these meetings, including all attachments

- all documents prepared or received with regards to and/or as a follow up
to these meetings; and

- all correspondence sent or received with regards to and/or as a follow
up to these meetings, including all attachments.

 

Yours faithfully,

Margarida da Silva

Corporate Europe Observatory

Rue d'edimbourg 26

1050 Belgique

 

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU
and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the
AsktheEU.org website.

 

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[1][FOI #9393 email]

 

If [2][DG TRADE request email] is the wrong address for
information requests to Trade, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email
[3][email address]

 

This message and all replies from Trade will be published on the
AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our dedicated page for EU
public officials at
[4]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www....

 

Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.

 

 

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Margarida da Silva

Dear [email address],

Thank you for getting in touch and asking for clarification. Indeed, you do not have to include emails that were entirely of logistic nature. Though I consider emails and correspondence where the topics of the discussion were agreed to be of substance.

Please do let me know if this is not clear.

Yours sincerely,

Margarida da Silva

TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu, Commerce

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Dear Mrs. Da Silva,

 

Please find attached our reply to your request GESTDEM 2021/2824.

 

According to our standard operational procedure, you would have also
received the letter by registered mail. However, due to the extraordinary
health and security measures currently in force during to the COVID-19
epidemic, which requires all Commission’s 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 TRADE request email] .

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

Access to Documents Team

 

European Commission

Directorate General for Trade

Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications

[2][DG TRADE request email]

CHAR
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