REACH Revision + Secretariat General

Vicky Cann a fait une demande de Accès à l'information à Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

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Dear Secretariat General

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I would like to request access to the following documents related to the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, and in particular to the reform of the CLP and REACH Regulations:

1. A list of all meetings/ discussions that have taken place since 1st December 2021 between representatives of individual companies (including their lobby consultancies and law firms) and/or industry associations on the other hand, specifically: BDI, VCI, CEFIC, Eurometaux, Bayer, BASF, PlasticsEurope, Corteva, 3M, Chemours, Corbion, Solvay, with:
a. the President of the EU Commission and/or representatives of her cabinet (in particular Bjoern Seibert and Kurt Vandenberghe)
b. Vice President of the EU Commission Frans Timmermans and/or representatives of his cabinet (in particular Helena Braun)
c. Vice President of the EU Commission Margrethe Vestager and/or representatives of her cabinet
d. Vice President of the EU Commission Valdis Dombrovskis and/or representatives of his cabinet
e. Vice President of the EU Commission Maroš Šefčovič and/or representatives of his cabinet

2. Any records, minutes or notes of these meetings/discussions.

3. Any briefings prepared for these meetings.

4. All correspondence exchanged since 1st December 2021 (including SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc, recorded voice messages, emails, letters and attached documents) between the above Commissioners and officials and representatives of the specified companies (including their lobby consultancies and law firms) and/or industry associations on the other hand.

In the interests of good administration, I request that the response clearly identifies the documents held by the Commission in relation to each of these categories and clearly indicates to which category the disclosed documents relate.

To the extent possible, my strong preference is to receive documents in electronic format

Thank you in advance.

Yours faithfully,

Vicky Cann
CEO
Rue d'Edimbourg 26
1050 Brx

SG-DOSSIERS-ACCES@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 07/10/2022 and registered on 10/10/2022 under the case number
2022/5765.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 31/10/2022. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.

To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.

Yours faithfully,

Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission

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sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

Hello,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 10/10/2022under case number 2022/5765.

We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 31/10/2022.

Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 23/11/2022.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

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sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Ms Cann,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered under case number 2022/5765.

We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 23 November 2022. In order to retrieve
the documents requested, many dossiers have to be examined. 

We will reply to you as soon as possible. We apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

 

European Commission

Secretariat-General

Unit D-2

 

sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

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Hello,

Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2022/5765.

Kind regards,

sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

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Hello,

Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2022/5765.

Kind regards,

Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,

Thank you for the reply dated 7 December and the attachments.

Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications. I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'REACH Revision + Secretariat General' 2022/5765.

Firstly, I was surprised that there were hardly any names visible on the paperwork. I am not interested in email addresses but as we are talking about commissioners, cabinet members, senior officials, and high-level industry leaders, I was very surprised that all names had been redacted, for example on documents 15 and 14. I would like this approach reviewed for all documents provided please.

Secondly, my request also covered Vice President of the EU Commission Margrethe Vestager and/or representatives of her cabinet and Vice President of the EU Commission Valdis Dombrovskis and/or representatives of his cabinet. Please can you confirm the status of these elements of my request?

Thirdly, please can you confirm that all other aspects of my request have been searched-for ie.
3. Any briefings prepared for these meetings.
4. All correspondence exchanged since 1st December 2021 (including SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc, recorded voice messages...

Finally, I had asked for a list of all meetings/ discussions that have taken place since 1st December 2021 with the listed organisations, their representatives, and listed Commission representatives.

I look forward to hearing from you; thank you in advance,

Yours faithfully,

Vicky Cann

sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2022/5765, sent on 07/12/2022 and registered on 07/12/2022.

We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 06/01/2023. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.

Yours faithfully,

Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission

sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

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sg-acc-doc@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Ms Cann,

We are writing to you concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case case 2022/5765 registered on 7/12/2022.

On 06/01/2023, we extended the time-limit for replying to your
confirmatory request to 27/01/2023.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to send you the reply within this
extended time limit as we have not yet finalised our internal
consultations.

However, we assure you that we are doing our best to send a reply to your
confirmatory request as soon as possible.

We regret this additional delay and sincerely apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

Access to documents team

Secretariat General

Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)

SG-GREFFE-CERTIFICATION@ec.europa.eu, Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

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Dear Ms Cann,

 

Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision
C(2023)1509 as adopted by the European Commission on 27.2.2023.

 

The formal notification of the decision under Article 297 TFEU is being
made only in electronic form.

 

Could you please confirm receipt of the attached documents by return
e-mail?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Kind regards,

Oana Boldis

 

 

European Commission
Secretariat General
SG.B.2 - Written, Empowerment & Delegation Procedures
( +32 2 29 71829
: [1][email address]

 

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Dear [email address],

Thank you for the extra documents relating to 2022-5765 and the 3 annexes. I do not appear to have received documents 16 and 17 mentioned in C(2023) 1509 dated 27 February. Is it possible to send them please?

Additionally, my confirmatory application asked:
"Thirdly, please can you confirm that all other aspects of my request have been searched-for ie.
3. Any briefings prepared for these meetings.
4. All correspondence exchanged since 1st December 2021 (including SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc, recorded voice messages... "

Your response says that that for the cabinets of Vice-Presidents Vestager and Dombrovskis "there are no briefings or other correspondence, be it in the form of SMS, messages transmitted through phone apps or voice recordings." Thank you for this information.

However, it is not clear to me whether or not you have checked aspects 3 and 4 with "a. the President of the EU Commission and/or representatives of her cabinet (in particular Bjoern Seibert and Kurt Vandenberghe), b. Vice President of the EU Commission Frans Timmermans and/or representatives of his cabinet (in particular Helena Braun) , ... [or] e. Vice President of the EU Commission Maroš Šefčovič and/or representatives of his cabinet".

I look forward to hearing from you urgently.

Yours sincerely,

Vicky Cann

Dear [email address],

I note that you have not replied to my email of 28 February regarding your reply to my confirmatory application relating to 2022-5765. I indicated that several documents were missing and I asked for clarification on an important point unaddressed by your response.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Vicky Cann

SG-GREFFE-CERTIFICATION@ec.europa.eu, Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

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Dear Ms. Vicky Cann,

 

Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision C(2023)
3433 as adopted by the European Commission on 21.05.2023.

 

The formal notification of the decision for information is being made only
in electronic form.

 

Could you please confirm receipt of the attached document by return
e-mail?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Kind regards,

 

Eduard GRIGORAȘ

 

European Commission

General Secretariat of the Commission – SG – B-2

Written, Empowerment and Delegation procedures

 

BERL 05 / P071

B-1049 Brussels / Belgium

Desk: +32 2 29 87 893

Mobile: +32 485 178 302

[1][email address]

 

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SG-GREFFE-CERTIFICATION@ec.europa.eu, Secrétariat général de la Commission européenne

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Dear Ms. Vicky Cann,

 

The act enclosed in the message below, contained the incorrect C(2023)
3433 reference. Therefore, please find attached the correct act as well as
the annexes. This message annuls and replaces the previous one.

 

Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision C(2023)
3433 as adopted by the European Commission on 21.05.2023.

 

The formal notification of the decision for information is being made only
in electronic form.

 

Could you please confirm receipt of the attached document by return
e-mail?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Kind regards,

 

 

From: SG GREFFE CERTIFICATION
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2023 2:40 PM
To: '[FOI #11944 email]'
<[FOI #11944 email]>
Cc: SG GREFFE CERTIFICATION <[email address]>;
GRIGORAS Eduard (SG) <[email address]>
Subject: C(2023) 3433 - Corporate Europe Observatory - Vicky Cann

 

Dear Ms. Vicky Cann,

 

Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision C(2023)
3433 as adopted by the European Commission on 21.05.2023.

 

The formal notification of the decision for information is being made only
in electronic form.

 

Could you please confirm receipt of the attached document by return
e-mail?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Kind regards,

 

Eduard GRIGORAȘ

 

European Commission

General Secretariat of the Commission – SG – B-2

Written, Empowerment and Delegation procedures

 

BERL 05 / P071

B-1049 Brussels / Belgium

Desk: +32 2 29 87 893

Mobile: +32 485 178 302

[1][email address]

 

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Dear [email address],

Thank you for the documents; I can confirm receipt of confirmatory application 2022-5756.

Kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

Vicky Cann