Dear Mr Haar,

I refer to your e-mail of 1st March 2018, registered on the same date 1st March 2018 (N°GESTDEM 2018/1262), applying for a copy of various documents in accordance with Regulation (EC) N° 1049/2001  regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission
documents. The time limit is expiring today on 21/03/2018.
Your application will be dealt with as quickly as possible. In accordance with Article 6.3 of Regulation 1049/2001, the Institution concerned may confer with the applicant informally, with a view to finding a fair solution.

As your application is broad in its scope and concerns the DG and our Cabinet, a significant number of files have to be examined in order to respond to your request.
Nevertheless, as you may be aware, the fulfilment of your request will represent a significant workload for a relevant number of units at our Directorate General and your request is not the only request to be dealt by our Directorate General.
Such a detailed search for and analysis of the retrieved documents cannot be carried out within the normal time limits set out in Article 7 of Regulation 1049/2001.

According to our first estimates, the handling of your request would take about two months, broken down as follows:
3 weeks more for searching and identifying the requested documents,
4 weeks for retrieval and establishment of a complete list of the documents identified, scanning of the documents, assessment of the content of the documents in light of the exceptions of Article 4 of Regulation 1049/2001, third-party consultation under Article 4(4) and/or 4(5) of Regulation 1049/2001, if necessary; for the final assessment of the documents in the light of the comments received, drafting of the reply, redaction of those parts of the documents to which one or several exceptions apply(ies), internal approval of the draft decision on your request, preparation of the reply and the documents for dispatch.
We will be able to complete the process for the provision of the documents you have requested in the course of the month of May 2018 (22 may) (due to the holidays during this period of time).
We intend to send you the document in several batches according to the progress of the different Units concerned in selecting and printing the documents. 
You will receive firstly a list of our meetings and after the minutes of meetings.
We will do our best to answer in the shortest time possible taking into account the constraints mentioned above.
We would be grateful to receive you agreement how we intend to proceed. We will do our best to answer in the shortest time.

We apologize for this delay.

Yours sincerely,

European Commission
Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union 
Unit 02 "Inter-institutional Relations, planning and stakeholders' relations"
1049 Brussels, Belgium

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