Access to documents request: 2021-09-29 meeting between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Energinet
Dear Sir or Madam,
Referring to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to EU documents and to the 'Aarhus Convention' I would herewith like to ask for access to the following:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting on September 29 between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Energinet.
In consideration of the environment and the current circumstances with the COVID pandemic I would prefer to receive documents electronically.
I would like to make clear I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission's search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. Also I would expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. 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.
If anything is unclear or would benefit from further discussion please do not hesitate to contact me by email or on +44 7525 592 738. My address for any written correspondence necessary is Barnaby Pace, Global Witness, Rue Belliard 53, 1000, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours sincerely
Barnaby Pace
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Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 30 September 2021. We hereby acknowledge
receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered
on 03/10/2021 under reference number GESTDEM 2021/5860.
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 25 October 2021. In case this time limit
needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
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Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
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European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[7][email address]
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your e-mail of 30 September 2021 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 03 October 2021 under the above
mentioned reference number. Your application is currently being handled.
However, we will not be in a position to complete the handling of your
application within the time limit of 15 working days, which expires on 25
October 2021.
An extended time limit is needed for thorough analysis as to the
availability of the documents requested.
Therefore, 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 17 November
2021.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
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European Commission
DG Energy
DG ENERGY – Access to documents team
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Dear [email address],
I have not yet received a response for this request which is now long overdue and by law under all circumstances I should have received a response. Can you provide any update?
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
Dear Energy,
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 'Access to documents request: 2021-09-29 meeting between Thor-Sten Vertmann and Energinet'.
This request is now very long overdue by many months with no response to a follow up prompt.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/acces...
Yours faithfully,
Barnaby Pace
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Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email dated 3 March 2022 by which you request, pursuant
to Regulation No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament,
Council and Commission documents, a review of the position taken by DG
ENER in reply to your initial application GESTDEM 2021/5860.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your confirmatory application for access
to documents which was registered on 3 March 2022 (Ares(2022)1577261).
Your application will be handled within 15 working days (24/03/2022). In
case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due
course.
Please be informed that the answer to your confirmatory application is a
formal Commission decision that will be notified to you by express
delivery. Thank you for providing your contact phone number, so that the
external delivery service can contact you in case of absence.
Please note that the Commission will not use your phone number for any
other purpose than for informing the delivery service, and that it will
delete it immediately thereafter.
Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (GD)
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European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG C.1
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[5]1st holding letter 2021-5860 PACE - Ares(2022)2242400 (Please use this
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vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your e-mail of 3 March 2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents in accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and
Commission documents ("Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001"), registered the same
day under the above mentioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. Unfortunately, we have not
yet been able to finish consultations necessary to carry out a full
analysis of your request and to take a final decision. Therefore, we have
not been in a position to reply to your request within the prescribed time
limit, which expired on 24 March 2022. Consequently, 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
deadline expires on 19 April 2022.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear Mr Pace,
I refer to your email of 3 March 2022, registered on the same day, by
which you submit a request for access to documents in accordance with
Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents ("Regulation (EC) No
1049/2001"), registered under reference number above.
I also refer to our holding reply of 28 March 2022, by which the time
limit for replying to your confirmatory application was extended by 15
working days, pursuant to Article 8(2) of Regulation 1049/2001. This
extended time limit expires on 19 April 2022.
I regret to have to inform you that we are not able to respond within the
extended time-limit, as we have not yet finalised internal consultations.
I can assure you that we are doing our utmost to provide you with a final
reply as soon as possible.
I regret this additional delay and sincerely apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Unit
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European Commission
Secretariat General
Unit C.1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
I have still not received a full response to this request even though it is extremely overdue and the deadline provided in your previous holding email passed several weeks ago. Could you provide an update?
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
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Dear Mr Pace,
Regarding you inquiry about your confirmatory application, which you
submitted because of the lack of initial reply, we would like to inform
you that we contacted several times the colleagues from the
Directorate-General for Energy and we are still waiting for their initial
reply.
Without their reply, we are not in the position to reply to your
confirmatory request.
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to you .
Best regards,
Access to documents team (cr)
SG.C.1
Transparency
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[4]Your request to access to documents - EASE 2021/5860 - reply to the
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Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your e-mail of 30/09/2021, in which you make a request for
access to documents, registered on 03/10/2021 under the above mentioned
reference number.
Please find attach the reply to your initial request.
Kind regards,
DG Energy
DG ENERGY – Access to Documents Team
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Dear Sir,
Please find attached an advance copy of the reply to your confirmatory
request for access to documents registered under the number 2021/5860.
We would be grateful if you could confirm receipt of the attached document
by return e-mail.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
SG.C1 ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
Dear [email address],
I can confirm receipt of your email. Many thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Barnaby Pace
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