Access to documents request: 2022-09-19 meeting between Olivér Várhelyi and Trans Adriatic Pipeline

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

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 19 between Olivér Várhelyi and Trans Adriatic Pipeline.

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

NEAR-ACCDOC@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 13/10/2022 and registered on 14/10/2022 under the case number
2022/5875.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 08/11/2022. 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,

Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations -
Access to Documents
European Commission

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NEAR-ACCDOC@ec.europa.eu,

Hello,

We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 14 October 2022 under case number 2022/5875.

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 today on 8 November 2022 due to internal
consultations.

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 29 November 2022.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

NEAR ACCDOC Team

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NEAR-ACCDOC@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Mr Pace,

 

We refer to your request for access to documents, initially registered on
14 October 2022 under the above-mentioned reference number.

 

We are afraid that the reply to your request for access to documents has
required longer than usual due to internal consultations involving our
Cabinet given that the document/s from the meeting requested are related
to them.

 

We are confident that you will receive a reply shortly.

 

Again, we apologise for the delay and for any inconvenience it may have
caused.

 

Yours sincerely,

DG NEAR ACCDOC Team

 

European Commission

DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations

NEAR Access to Documents

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NEAR-ACCDOC@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 2022/5875.

Kind regards,

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

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2022/5875, sent on 20/12/2022 and registered on 26/01/2023.

We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 16/02/2023. 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,

Hello,

We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case 2022/5875 registered on 26/01/2023.

We are currently working on your confirmatory request. However, we have
not yet been able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out
a  full analysis of yourrequest. We will not be able to send you the reply
within the prescribed time limit expiring on 16/02/2023.

We are conducting internal consultations.Therefore, in line with Article
8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 we need to extend this time limit by
15 additional working days. The new time limit expires on 09/03/2023.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,