Responses to the targeted consultation “Transition pathway for a more resilient, sustainable and digital textiles ecosystem”
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
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 responses to the targeted consultation “Transition pathway for a more resilient, sustainable and digital textiles ecosystem” from all Danish entities, including companies, (trade) organisations and institutions.
2. All responses to the same consultation from the non-Danish companies Zalando, H&M, Boozt and Ikea.
3. List of meetings since 30th March 2022 between Commissioner Breton and/or his cabinet and/or officials from DG Grow with representatives of the above-mentioned companies and associations, in which the transition to a more resilient, sustainable, and digital textiles ecosystem was discussed.
4. Minutes of the meetings mentioned above.
To the extent possible, I prefer the documents in electronic format. Documents that cannot be sent in electronic format should be sent to Freja Eriksen, Watch Medier (Jyllands-Posten), Mediebyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation.
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: Freja Eriksen, Watch Medier (Jyllands-Posten), Mediebyen 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Freja Celine Eriksen
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
As I have not received a timely response to my request "Responses to the targeted consultation "Transition pathway for a more resilient, sustainable and digital textiles ecosystem"", I would like to ask when I can expect a response from the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.
By law, I should have received a prompt response to the request by December 22, 2022.
Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Freja Eriksen
Dear Madam,
Our apologies for this, as it seems your first email never reached properly the GROW Access to Documents Team. After second check, we have now been able to retrieve it.
For future requests, we strong advise you to submit them directly in the new Access to Documents EASE software, available here: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/docume.... Such electronic submission service provides immediate registration, acknowledgement of receipt, and tracking of the request.
We take this opportunity to ask for some clarification about your initial request:
For the third point of the request:
- Please specify the levels of meetings held at DG GROW.
- Please also specify if you mean meetings whose topic concerns specifically the consultation mentioned in point 1 and point 2 of your request?
- Do you confirm the stakeholders targeted for this meetings search concern only the following entities mentioned explicitly in this point: companies and associations?
If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, please let us know.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Kind regards,
DG GROW ATD Team
Dear [email address],
Thank you very much for the prompt reply to my second message.
I am happy to clarify the questions regarding point three of the request.
- Could you please clarify what is meant by "levels of meetings held at DG Grow"?
- Yes, I confirm that I mean meetings whose topic specifically concerns the consultation mentioned in point 1 and 2 of the initial request.
- Stakeholders targeted for this meetings search are all of those mentioned in point 1 and 2 of the request: All Danish entities, including companies, (trade) organisations and institutions, as well as the non-Danish companies Zalando, H&M, Boozt and Ikea.
Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely,
Freja Eriksen
Dear Ms Eriksen,
Thank you for your swift reply and precision.
By levels of meetings, we would need to understand if your request concerns officials of all levels of DG GROW? Or a specific targeted level such as: Unit level (Only Policy officers and/or Head of Unit involved), Director level (Director involved), Director-General level (Director-General involved)?
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
DG GROW ATD Team
Dear [email address],
Thank you for the clarification. In this case, the request concerns officials of all levels of DG Grow.
Thank you!
Yours sincerely,
Freja Eriksen
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 12/01/2023 and registered on 12/01/2023 under the case number
2023/0235.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 02/02/2023. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Ms Eriksen,
We refer to your e-mail dated 12/01/2023 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 12/01/2023 under the above mentioned
reference number.
The reply to your request could not be finalised today. Therefore, we are
not in a position to complete the handling of your application within the
extended time limit of 15 working days, which expires today (02/02/2023).
Please be reassured that we are doing our best to be able to send you the
reply as soon as possible.
We apologise for this additional delay and for any inconvenience this may
cause.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
Thank you very much for this update. I am looking forward to hearing from you again as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
Freja Eriksen
Dear Ms Eriksen,
We refer to your e-mail dated 12/01/2023 in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 12/01/2023 under the above mentioned
reference number.
The reply to your request could not be finalised today. Therefore, we are
not in a position to complete the handling of your application within the
extended time limit of 15 working days, which expires today (23/02/2023).
Please be reassured that we are doing our best to be able to send you the
reply as soon as possible.
We apologise for this additional delay and for any inconvenience this may
cause.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
