Dear Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU,

I would like to request documents which contain the following information:

-How many meetings have employees of the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU had in the context of or relating to the topic of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) with representatives of companies, lobby or advocacy groups, academic, research, and scientific institutes, consultancies, and any other kind of organisations and stakeholders, from January 2022 until today?

I would like to request a list of these meetings: who was present at the meeting, including the names of organisations/lobbyists present, as well as the date of the meeting, the subject matter discussed, and the minutes of the meetings.

If possible, I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis.

At no point should the Permanent Representation's search for (or deliberations concerning) certain documents delay the production of others that the Permanent Representation has already retrieved and chosen to produce. I also prefer to receive documents electronically.

If some documents are partially exempted from publication, I wish to have access to a partial release of said documents. Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation.

Please contact me if any point of this request needs to be clarified,

Thank you for your help,

Yours sincerely,

Jelena Prtoric
Podbreg 19
51 000 Rijeka
Croatia

Dear Mr Aendenhof,

Many thanks for your quick reply! And no worries about the delay, getting the information/documents in September is absolutely fine for me!

Yours sincerely,

Jelena Prtoric

Dear Info - Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU,

I hope this email finds you well. I received the acknowledgment of the receipt of my email on August 6, explaining that I could expect a substantial answer in September, after the holiday period. However, I still haven't received a reply to my request/any documents.

Could you please send me the requested documentation/information as soon as possible?

Yours sincerely,

Jelena Prtoric

Dear Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU,

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 'Request for lobby documents and meetings'.

I submitted my first request to information on 5 August 2024. I requested documents which contain the following information:

-How many meetings have employees of the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU had in the context of or relating to the topic of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) with representatives of companies, lobby or advocacy groups, academic, research, and scientific institutes, consultancies, and any other kind of organisations and stakeholders, from January 2022 until today?

I requested a list of these meetings, including who was present, the names of organisations/lobbyists present, the date of the meeting, the subject matter discussed, and the minutes of the meetings. I also requested that the documents be produced on a rolling basis.

I have followed up on my initial request twice but received no reply.

A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/requ...

Since the response to my request is long overdue, please send the requested documents as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully,

Jelena Prtoric