CEPOL trainings in Lebanon
Dear European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training,
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:
- content of all trainings in which Lebanese Law Enforcement authorities or other authorities operating in Lebanon in the field of border management and/or search and rescue operations took part, including, but not limited to, presentations, reports, guides, guidelines, handouts, audio-visual material.
- name, institution of origin and title of all participants from Lebanese Law Enforcement authorities or from other authorities operating in Lebanon in the field of border management and/or search and rescue operations
- date, time and location of all these trainings.
Yours faithfully,
Philémon Mallet
Bakhos Building
Saint Joseph Street
Beirut, Lebanon
Dear Mr Mallet,
Thank you for your interest in the work of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL).
We would like to kindly ask you to submit your access to document request via the dedicated page of CEPOL's corporate website: https://www.cepol.europa.eu/request-docu...
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CEPOL Communications
CEPOL Communications
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Dear Asktheeu.org team, dear Mr Mallet,
This is to acknowledge receipt of your email request for access to documents, received by email on 18 January 2023. We kindly ask you to disregard our previous communication in which we were kindly asking you to submit your request through our dedicated page on CEPOL's corporate website. Please note that your request has been registered today, 20 January 2023.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days (by 10 February). In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
Please note that before providing the requested materials, CEPOL needs to verify that no restricted information is included. Restricted information must be blanked; this also concerns personal data protected by the EU data protection rules.
We remain at your disposal for any further clarification you may need.
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CEPOL Communications
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Dear Mr Mallet,
Please confirm that the subject of your request concerns conducted capacity building activities for Lebanese Law Enforcement authorities or other authorities operating in Lebanon in the field of border management and search and rescue operations. The current formulation of your request implies all conducted capacity building actions regardless of the scope/subject of the activity.
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CEPOL Communications
CEPOL Communications
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Dear CEPOL Communications,
Yes, I confirm that the subject of my request concerns conducted capacity building activities for Lebanese Law Enforcement authorities or other authorities operating in Lebanon in the field of border management and search and rescue operations.
Yours sincerely,
Philémon Mallet
Dear Mr Mallet,
Thank you for your clarification. CEPOL will now collect the material requested concerning border management and search and rescue related training courses for Lebanese law enforcement services. We need to go through all the material to check if it includes information that belongs to exceptions to public access in particular public security or data protection. The deadline for the response will be 15 February 2023.
Kind regards,
CEPOL Communications
CEPOL Communications
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Dear Mr Mallet,
Please find attached 8 documents related to your PAD request.
The general principle of Regulation 1049/2001 is to grant the widest possible access to any document held by an EU-institution which is requested under this Regulation. The institution only refuses disclosure of (a part of) the requested document(s), if disclosure would undermine the protection of a specific interest as laid down in Article 4 of this Regulation.
Kindly note that some information contained in the documents attached has been blanked out as it was found that certain of the exceptions of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 apply. In particular:
• Information that could render a person identifiable (such as name, functions, email address, telephone number, location of service, photos) have been removed in line with Article 4 (1) (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
• Information that pertains to modus operandi of the law enforcement community related to Law enforcement investigations technics and tactics, as well as real cases and operational details has been removed in line with Article 4 (1) (a), first intent of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 as disclosure of such information could undermine the protection of the public interest as regards public security. Disclosure of this information could jeopardise on-going as well as future operations and investigations.
As regards third-party documents, Article 4, paragraph 4 of the Regulation provides that the institution shall consult the third party with a view to assessing whether an exception in paragraph 1 or 2 is applicable, unless it is clear that the document shall or shall not be disclosed. One of the training presentations attached is owned by a third party (Police Nationale, France), which has agreed to allow access to the presentation subject to above exceptions and subsequent blanking.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make a confirmatory application requesting CEPOL to review this position. Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt of the present e-mail to the following address:
European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training
Attn: Executive Director
H-1066 Budapest, Ó utca 27, Hungary
or by email to: [email address]
Further to the above, I draw your attention to Article 16 of Regulation (EC) 1049/2001 concerning reproduction of documents received. The application of Regulation (EC) 1049/2001 is without prejudice to any existing rules on copyright which may limit a third party's (the applicants) right to reproduce or exploit released documents. In addition, it is important to highlight that opinions that may be expressed throughout the training material do not reflect a formal CEPOL or European Union position.
Kind regards,
CEPOL Communications team on behalf of Head of Operations
CEPOL Communications
European Union
Agency for Law Enforcement Training
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Email:[email address]
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