DG RTD contacts with EuropaBio
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 documents which contain the following information:
- a list of meetings of DG Research and Innovation officials and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and representatives of EuropaBio between January 2012 and today.
- minutes and other reports of these meetings;
- all correspondence (including emails) between DG Enterprise and Industry officials and/or representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and representatives of EuropaBio related to public-private partnership in life sciences research and innovation under Horizon 2020 between January 2012 and today.
- all correspondence (including emails) between the Commissioner and the Cabinet and DG Research and Innovation related to public-private partnership in life sciences research and innovation under Horizon 2020 between January 2012 and today.
Yours faithfully,
David Sánchez
From: RTD ACCESS DOCUMENTS
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 11:32 AM
To: '[FOI #496 email]'
Cc: RTD ACCESS DOCUMENTS
Subject: Application for access to documents - Reference number GestDem
2013/2352
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 2 May 2013. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered by DG
RTD on 2 May 2013 under reference number GestDem 2013/2352 (DG RTD).
Please note that point 3 of your request concerning: "- all correspondence
(including emails) between DG Enterprise and Industry officials and/or
representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and
representatives of EuropaBio related to public-private partnership in life
sciences research and innovation under Horizon 2020 between January 2012
and today" has been registered under a different reference number and will
be handled by DG ENTERPRISE.
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 for the processing
of your application by DG RTD will expire on 28/05/2013. In case this time
limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Access to Documents Team of DG RTD, Unit R.5
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Dear Mr Sanchez,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 2 May 2013 to DG RTD.
The third paragraph of your request concerning "/All correspondence
(including emails) between DG Enterprise and Industry officials and/or
representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and
representatives of EuropaBio related to public-private partnership in
life sciences research and innovation under Horizon 2020 between January
2012 and today/" was registered by DG ENTR on 3 May 2013 under reference
number GestDem 2013/2360 (DG ENTR) and will therefore be handled by DG ENTR.
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 for
the processing of your application by DG ENTR will expire on 29/05/2013.
In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in
due course.
Kind regards,
*Annalisa La Rovere
*Legal assistance/Access to documents
European Commission
DG Enterprise and Industry
Unit R4
BREY 13/73| 1049 Brussels
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Dear Mr Sanchez,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 02 May 2013. We hereby acknowledge
receipt of your application for access to documents, which will be handled
by DG RTD in respect of its documents concerned under reference number
GestDem 2013/2707.
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
28/05/2013.
We would like to inform you hereby that, as your application concerns a
very large number of documents, its handling cannot be carried out within
the normal time limits set out in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) N°
1049/2001.
Yet, the Regulation also provides for a possibility to confer with
applicants in order to find a fair solution when an application concerns a
very large number of documents. Article 6(3) provides that "in the event
of an application relating to a very long document or to very large number
of documents, the institution concerned may confer with the applicant
informally, with a view to finding a fair solution".
Based on this provision, we would kindly ask you whether you would agree
that we extend the deadline for handling your application until 30 June
2013. Needless to say, we will try to finalise the handling of your
application for access to documents as fast as possible.
If you have any questions concerning this proposal, you can contact us by
email to: [email address]
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
[1]cid:image001.png@01CE531D.1F5D2C80
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),
Thanks for your email dated 21 May. I have to admit that I am surprised that my request involve such a large number of documents. Is it possible to know a rough estimation of how many documents we are talking about?
My proposal would be to receive, if possible, the information for the first and second bullet points under the current deadline. And extend the deadline for the rest of the information requested, that might involve a higher number of documents, as you suggest.
Yours faithfully,
David Sánchez
Dear Sir,
We refer to your application for access to documents which is registered
under the above mentioned reference number.
We would like to reassure you that your application is currently being
processed. However, we regret to inform you that, as your application
concerns potentially a very large number of documents and will require
extensive research in our databases and files, its handling cannot be
carried out within the normal time limits set out in Article 7 of
Regulation (EC) N° 1049/2001.
Yet, the Regulation also provides for a possibility to confer with
applicants in order to find a fair solution when an application concerns a
very large number of documents. Article 6(3) provides that "in the event
of an application relating to a very long document or to very large number
of documents, the institution concerned may confer with the applicant
informally, with a view to finding a fair solution".
Based on this provision, we would kindly ask you whether you would agree
that we extend the deadline for handling your application until 30 June
2013. Needless to say, we will try to finalise the handling of your
application for access to documents as fast as possible.
If you have any questions concerning this proposal, you can contact us by
email to: [email address]
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
[1]cid:image001.png@01CE531D.1F5D2C80
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 Mr Sanchez,
Thank you for your e-mail. We understand that you are in urgent need of
the requested documents. Therefore, we would like to inform you herewith
that Directorate-General Health and Consumers ('DG SANCO') will deal
directly with your request for the sake of efficiency.
If you have any further questions in relation to your above mentioned
application for access to documents, please contact therefore DG SANCO.
Yours faithfully,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
R5
ORBN 09/151
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 229-85891
[email address]
[1]http://ec.europa.eu/research
Dear Mr Sanchez,
We refer to your request for access to documents dated 02/05/2013,
registered under the above mentioned 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 expires on 29/05/2013.
An extended time limit is needed as different units have to be consulted
in order to retrieve the documents requested
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 19/06/2013.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
Annalisa La Rovere
Legal assistance/Access to documents
European Commission
DG Enterprise and Industry
Unit R4
BREY 13/73 | 1049 Brussels
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From: ENTR ACCES DOCUMENTS
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 12:00 PM
To: '[FOI #496 email]'
Cc: ENTR ACCES DOCUMENTS
Subject: Acknowledgment of receipt: access to information request - DG RTD
contacts with EuropaBio - SANCHEZ 2013/2360
Dear Mr Sanchez,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 2 May 2013 to DG RTD.
The third paragraph of your request concerning "All correspondence
(including emails) between DG Enterprise and Industry officials and/or
representatives (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and
representatives of EuropaBio related to public-private partnership in life
sciences research and innovation under Horizon 2020 between January 2012
and today" was registered by DG ENTR on 3 May 2013 under reference number
GestDem 2013/2360 (DG ENTR) and will therefore be handled by DG ENTR.
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 for the processing
of your application by DG ENTR will expire on 29/05/2013. In case this
time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
Kind regards,
Annalisa La Rovere
Legal assistance/Access to documents
European Commission
DG Enterprise and Industry
Unit R4
BREY 13/73 | 1049 Brussels
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To understand this request, note there are two DGs dealing with it. DG RTD (registered under 2013/2352 and duplicated with 2013/2707) and DG ENTR (2013/2360). The request with DG RTD is now being dealt by DG SANCO here http://www.asktheeu.org/en/annotate/requ... . DG ENTR will reply on the 19/06/2013.
Dear Mr Sanchez,
Following your request for access to documents 2013/2360 we have
identified some documents originating from the third party that we had to
consult regarding disclosure of these documents.
In reply to our consultation, the third party asked us the name of the
requestor and to have a copy of the request.
We are therefore writing to you to ask your authorization to disclose your
name and request to the third party in question.
Thanks in advance for your reply and kind regards
Annalisa La Rovere
Legal assistance/Access to documents
[1]cid:image001.png@01CCF2DD.7D76BE90
European Commission
DG Enterprise and Industry
Unit R4
BREY 13/73 | 1049 Brussels
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Dear Research and Innovation (RTD),
You have my authorization to disclose my name and the request to the third party
Yours faithfully,
David Sánchez
Dear Mr Sanchez,
Thank you for your reply. We assume that this authorization is also valid
for us (we are DG ENTR and not DG RTD).
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Annalisa La Rovere
Legal assistance/Access to documents
European Commission
DG Enterprise and Industry
Unit R4
BREY 13/73 | 1049 Brussels
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Dear Ms. La Rovere,
The authorization was for DG Enterprise and Industry. It was a mistake of asktheeu.org system
Yours faithfully,
David Sánchez
Dear Mr Sanchez,
We refer to your e-mails dated 2/05/2013 and 24/05/2013, in which you make
a request for access to documents, registered on 2/05/2013 and 24/05/2013
under the above mentioned Gestdem reference numbers. We enclose a copy of
the documents requested.
We apologise again for the delay and would like to assure you that we did
our utmost in order to process you application as soon as possible.
However, an extended time was needed as large files had to be examined and
several services, including the Cabinet, had to be consulted.
Yours faithfully,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
[1]cid:image001.png@01CDF26F.EF7D9990
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 Mr Sanchez,
We refer to your e-mails dated 2/05/2013 and 24/05/2013, in which you make
a request for access to documents, registered on 2/05/2013 and 24/05/2013
under the above mentioned Gestdem reference numbers. We enclose a copy of
the documents requested.
We apologise again for the delay and would like to assure you that we did
our utmost in order to process you application as soon as possible.
However, an extended time was needed as large files had to be examined and
several services, including the Cabinet, had to be consulted.
Yours faithfully,
Silvia BOJINOVA
Head of Unit
[1]cid:image001.png@01CDF26F.EF7D9990
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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Email errors on AsktheEU.org make these message read like duplicates since they are saying the same thing. Please note the last message was sent on 03 May 2013.