DG RTD contacts with Clifford Chance
Dear Research and Innovation (RTD),
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents,
including notes of minutes, emails and other correspondence,
relating to contacts between staff of DG RTD and staff of law
firm Clifford Chance, between January 2008 and February 2013.
Yours faithfully,
Rachel Tansey
Dear Madam,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 06/02/2013. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on
06/02/2013 under reference number GestDem 2013/0570.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application
will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will expire on
27/02/2013. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be
informed in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
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European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
R5
ORBN 09/151
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
[2]http://ec.europa.eu/research
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Dear Ms Tansey,
We refer to your email of 6 February 2013, in which you submit a request
for access to all documents, including notes of minutes, emails ans other
correspondence, relating to contacts between staff of the
Directorate-General RTD and staff of law firm Clifford Chance, between
January 2008 and February 2013.
Your request was registered by DG RTD on 6 February 2013 under the above
mentioned reference number.
After a careful review of your application, we regret to inform you that
our DG is not able to process your request with its current scope.
This is indeed a very broadly formulated request, which would require
extensive searches on different locations. It is not really feasable to
retrieve documents on these criteria. In particular, for a significant
part of the period covered by your request, there is no central electronic
archiving of correspondence. Therefore, searches in paper files would be
necessary, which would be very labour-intensive and time consuming.
Furthermore, correspondence with law firms may cover very different
subjects and some of it is likely to be confidential in nature.
Consequently, we are unable to handle your request in its present form. We
would kindly ask you to make a more targeted request.
Yours sincerely,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
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European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
R5
ORBN 09/151
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-85891
[2][email address]
[3]http://ec.europa.eu/research
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Dear Research and Innovation (RTD),
In accordance with your request for a more targeted access to documents request - due to the labour-intensive and time consuming nature of dealing with my request as previously formulated - I will narrow the time period and scope of my request as follows.
I will reduce the time span of my request to one year, from February 2012 to February 2013. I trust that this will address the issue of having no central electronic archiving of correspondence, for a significant part of the period covered by my original request (Jan 2008-Feb 2013).
Furthermore, since Clifford Chance is a large, multinational law firm, with branches all over the world, I will reduce the scope of my request to cover only correspondence between staff of DG RTD and three particular branches of Clifford Chance: the Brussels,
Paris and London offices of Clifford Chance.
Yours faithfully,
Rachel Tansey
Dear Ms Tansey,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 11 February 2013. We hereby acknowledge
receipt of your targeted request in respect of your application for access
to documents registered under reference number GestDem 2013/570.
We have noted that you have reduced the time span of your request from
February 2012 to February 2013, and that the scope of your request is now
limited to correspondence between staff of DG RTD and three particular
branches of Clifford Chance: the Brussels, Paris and London offices of
Clifford Chance. We appreciate your kind understanding.
In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your targeted
application will be handled within 15 working days. The time limit will
expire on 4 March 2003. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you
will be informed in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
[1]cid:image001.png@01CDDDFA.7C290D00
European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
R5
ORBN 09/151
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-85891
[2][email address]
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Dear Ms Tansey,
We refer to your email dated 6 February 2013 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 6 February 2013 under the above
mentioned reference number.
Pursuant to our invitation, you have kindly introduced a more targeted
application for access to documents in an email dated 11 February 2013.
You have requested access to the correspondence between staff of DG RTD
and three particular branches of Clifford Chance: the Brussels, Paris and
London offices from February 2012 to February 2013.
We regret to inform you that no documents were found that would correspond
to the description given in your application. We are, therefore, unable to
handle your application.
Yours sincerely,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
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European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
R5
SDME 04/083
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-85891
[2][email address]
[3]http://ec.europa.eu/research
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