Consultation on 'Trustworthy General-Purpose AI'
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting responses to the multi-stakeholder consultation FUTURE-PROOF AI ACT: TRUSTWORTHY GENERAL-PURPOSE AI, which closed on 18 September 2024.
I would like to request all documents submitted as part of this consultation, which were received by the Commission either:
a) through the EC's online Survey Portal
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Gen...
or b)
in any other format, such as via email or physical mail.
Please transmit the results of this request in response to this email. My postal address is:
Dr Robert Gorwa
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Reichspietschufer 50
Berlin DE 10785
Yours faithfully,
Robert Gorwa
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Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 08/01/2025 and registered on 08/01/2025 under the case number
2025/0083.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 29/01/2025. We will let you know
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Mr Gorwa,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered under the
abovementioned 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 expired yesterday 29 January 2025.
An extended time limit is needed as different services need to be
consulted.
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 19 February
2025.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG CONNECT – ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
Rue de la Loi, 51
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Dear Mr Gorwa,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered under the
abovementioned reference number.
Your application is currently being handled. However, we have not been in
a position to complete the handling of your application within the time
limit, which expires today.
Please be assured that the reply is about to come.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG CONNECT – ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
Rue de la Loi, 51
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/0083.
Kind regards,
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
Thank you for your response.
I would like to note that the identification of these documents has already occurred, meaning that no further identification step is needed.
However, I am willing to compromise and limit the scope of my request just to the 22 GPAI provider documents that are present in the consultation that have already been identified.
This fair solution takes into account the specific factors you have mentioned above. Firstly, I do not ask for retrieval of the documents beyond those that have been identified or those uploaded through the CNECT system referred to in our request. So do not include those that require scanning. Secondly, I note that all entities answering the online survey or uploading documents to it agreed explicitly that "All contributions to this consultation may be made publicly available." before uploading (verbatim text from the consultation). It is therefore implausible that the grounds of refusal in Article 4 of 2001/2049 would meaningfully apply, because Article 4(4) of that Regulation states that the Commission shall not contact the third-party if it is 'clear that the document shall... be disclosed.'. Therefore there is no third party consultations needed there and frankly, no preliminary individual assessment, and no assessment in light of those comments, and no redaction required.
(I understand that this would not apply if we chose, for example, the 11 documents from public authorities, which would generate more workload.) As a result, I believe that asking for the 22 GPAI provider documents is a fair solution.
Please provide all 22 GPAI provider documents.
Yours faithfully,
Robert Gorwa
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
I would like to ask for an update on this request.
Yours faithfully,
Robert Gorwa
Dear Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
Please note that this request is long overdue. Could you please provide me with an update?
Yours faithfully,
Robert Gorwa
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/0083.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
DG CONNECT Access to documents Team
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/0083.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
DG CONNECT Access to documents Team