Apple Competition Case to the General Court
Dear Competition,
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:
The total legal costs to date of the enforcement action, taken under community State Aid legislation, against Apple Inc, in relation to tax rulings granted by the Irish tax authorities. These legal costs should cover from the inception of the case until the judgement in the General Court.
A breakdown of these legal costs, as per law firm or legal representative, used by the Commission during the case. If in-house counsel were used, could I please have a summary of the hours deployed by the counsel on this particular case since its inception and the monetary value of these hours.
Could I have a list of the Irish-based companies that the Commission asked for information about from Ireland in the early phase of the investigation into Apple.
Could I have copies of all letters, emails, correspondence from Commissioner Vestager specifically, or her officials, about the case in the last 12 months, sent to Ireland's Department of Finance, Ireland's Tax Authority (the Revenue Commissioners), Department of Foreign Affairs or Irish EU representative offices in Brussels.
Copies of all minutes of any meetings held with Irish Government officials about the Apple tax case that have taken place over the last 12 months.
Copies of all preparatory material, speaking points or emails or other documentation, utilised for Ms Vestegar's press conference on the day after the Apple tax judgement was released (July 16th)
Yours faithfully,
Emmet Oliver
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Access to Documents team
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Access to Documents Team
Dear Competition,
The address is 1 Dalkey Court
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Yours faithfully,
Emmet Oliver
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Yours faithfully,
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Dear Competition,
I would prefer to withdraw this request and send it directly to the EU Commission Freedom of Information unit- and not use Asktheeu.org
can you supply me with the details/contacts for the official European Commission Freedom of Information Unit
Yours faithfully,
Emmet Oliver
[1]Ares(2020)3786912 - access to documents request - Apple Competition
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European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days.
The time limit will expire on 10/08/2020. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.
You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union.
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via that website, and not the Commission.
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privacy policy.
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Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).
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Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
the AsktheEU.org website.
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provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
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Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team (rc)
Dear Sir,
We refer to your email dated 16/07/2020 in which you make a request for
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Yours faithfully,
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State Aid Registry
European Commission
DG Competition
MADOU Office 13/031
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Tel: +32 2 29 61154
Fax: +32 2 29 61242
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Dear Mr Oliver,
Attached please find the Legal Service’s reply to your above-referenced
request for access to documents.
Under the current COVID-19 pandemic circumstances, the Commission is
unable to send you the original of its reply by Registered Mail.
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return email, receipt of the Commission Legal Service’s reply letter.
Thank you for your understanding!
Kind regards,
Access to Documents team
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European Commission
Legal Service
Berlaymont
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
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Dear ve_sj.acces docs (SJ),
Yes I have received the Apple response
I may appeal
Yours sincerely,
Emmet Oliver