Documents concerning Commission member and conflicts of interest
Dear members of the Secretariat General and DG Competition
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents relating to any article 16, article 12B or article 40 (Staff Regulations) applications made by Daniel Coublucq when he left DG Comp to take up employment at Compass Lexecon in September 2018.
In particular, I request a note of all Daniel Coublucq's job titles at the Commission (including dates held and duration of his working contracts); copies of any application(s) that he made under article 12b, 16 and 40 to undertake the new professional activity; the date of issuing the authorisation; any assessments of the compatibility of his new role with his DG Comp role; and all documents (correspondence, emails, meeting notes etc) related to the authorisation of the new role.
In addition:
- I request all documents, correspondence and meeting notes concerned with Daniel Coublucq’s role in the Bayer/Monsanto merger, including the information about his participation in Unit E4 or presence in any Unit E4 meetings concerning the Bayer / Monsanto merger
- I request all documents, correspondence and meeting notes that describe Daniel Coublucq’s involvement in the Comission’s evaluation of BASF acquisition of Bayer seed treat and herbicide assets and its digital farming assets
- I request all documents, correspondence and meeting notes on opinions’s expressed by Daniel Coublucq in DG Comp, in Unit E4’s meetings or as an invited member, concerning the following documents from Compass Lexecon: “Analysis of BASF’s incentives as regards to herbicides and herbicide tolerance traits” (13/3/2018)
Finally, I would like to request all declarations of interest made by Daniel Coublucq when he rejoined the Commission from Compass Lexecon in October 2020. I would like to receive all Commission documents including any emails, letters, minutes of meetings which discuss the risk of conflicts of interest in this case, and a note of any restrictions which were applied to Mr Coublucq when he rejoined the Commission.
Yours faithfully,
João Camargo
Researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory
Rue d'Édimbourg 26
1050 Brussels - Belgium
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sent on 08/11/2023 and registered on 08/11/2023 under the case number
2023/6655.
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Hello,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 08/11/2023 under case number 2023/6655.
Please be informed that we will close this case as it is a duplicate of
the case 2023/6646, which will be handled accordingly, and an answer will
be sent to you in due time.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
European Commission
DG Competition
DG COMP.I.1 (Registry and Transparency)
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