Request for the identity of the organisation making an anonymous FOI request

En attente d'une révision interne par Santé et sécurité alimentaire a propos de leur gestion de la demande.

Dear Health and Food Safety,

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:
An organisation or person has submitted a FOI access to documents request for an exchange of emails I had with a Commission official. I have no problem being transparent and authorising the release of these documents, but I feel the organisation or person requesting this access request must also be transparent. I would like to know the name of the person or organisation making the following request (managed in the EC DG Santé by Sofie Hofkens):
(GEST/DEM 2016/3966)
"for all correspondence that took place after 19 August 2013 between the Commission and third parties regarding:
a) the EFSA Guidance Document on the Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products on Bees (Apis mellifera, Bombus spp. and solitary bees);
b) perceived risks to bees, bee colonies and bee health where this correspondence relates to neonicotinoid-based crop protection products."

In the spirit of transparency and to limit abuse on European Commission resources, I hope the EC will prohibit further "anonymous" requests

Yours faithfully,

David Zaruk

Santé et sécurité alimentaire

Dear Mr Zaruk,

Thank you for your request for access to documents.

Unfortunately, you have not indicated your postal address that is required for registering and handling your request in line with the procedural requirements.

Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience. Pending your reply, we reserve the right to refuse the registration of your request.

You may, of course, use directly the electronic form for entering your request:
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/...

Best regards,
SANTE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS

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Dear Health and Food Safety,
Several weeks ago you had requested my home postal address to process my access to documents request. I sent it to you but received no confirmation message. Am I to assume that you will post an answer to my request to my home address? Please note I have yet to receive anything but am getting emails from your office asking me to rate my "Ask the EU" experience.
Thank you for following this up.
Yours faithfully,
David Zaruk

Santé et sécurité alimentaire

Dear Mr Zaruk,

Thank you for your question.

You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note that this is a private website which has no link with any institution of the European Union. The messages you received to rate your "Ask the EU" experience do not originate from the Commission. Moreover, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.

When you sent us your postal address on Friday 28 October 2016, you received an acknowledgement of receipt from the Commission that contained a reference number and a deadline. All correspondence on your request will be sent to the address you gave in your GestDem request.

Kind regards,

European Commission
DG Health and Food Safety (SANTE)
Email: [DG SANTE request email]

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Dear Health and Food Safety,

I received your letter today where you state:
"We consider that, with the information available, the necessity of disclosing the personal
data to you has not been established and/or that it cannot be assumed that such disclosure
would not prejudice the legitimate rights of the persons concerned. Therefore, we cannot
disclose to you the identity of the applicant."
While I totally sympathise with you in that you are being forced to defend the right to privacy of some hypocritical little snake in the grass who is using your decency to gather evidence to attack and discredit the European Commission. Please note several points:
- A person demanding transparency should have the integrity to respect a transparent process by being themselves transparent!
- I feel that I have established the right to this personal data, because the little freelanced attack journalist requesting the access to documents is planning to use the information to shake the legitimacy and undermine the trust not only of the European Commission, but also my own reputation. I believe I have a right to prepare myself against such a moronically pointless personal attack that will take place in public without any forewarning. I do not believe it is in the interest of the European Commission to promote personal attacks (that will also hurt the European Commission's reputation)! This person has malicious intent and I should have the right to contact the person before their blitz attack. That for me would create a necessity to disclose the identity of this little trust vandal.
- I also want to remind you that I have not given the European Commission the right to release my correspondence with Michael Flüh until you release the identity of the person making the request. I fully expect you to honour and protect my privacy with the same level that you respect the privacy of that little zealot whose only objective is the humiliation of others. If you release that document without my permission, I do believe I will have legal recourse. You have permission to give this anarchist my email account so they can choose to man-up to me personally.
Finally, I would like to apologise to the European Commission DG Santé for wasting their time. I know how groups like Friends of the Earth and Corporate Europe Observatory continually waste taxpayer's money and your time on fishing expeditions with the hope of finding some scent of scandal they can use to undermine public trust in the EU. Please send me your addess so I can send you a bottle of whisky. Any poor soul who has to deal with such scum day in and day out definitely needs a drink!

Yours faithfully,

David Zaruk