Documents for meetin with MOL Group
Dear Trade,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I write to request information around meetings held between members of the Commission and Hungarian oil and gas company MOL Group (also known as MOL Plc.).
In particular, I would be grateful to receive all correspondence (including SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps, e.g. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc; recorded voice messages; emails, letters and attached documents), meeting notes, minutes, and agendas relating to the following meeting:
– January 30th, 2025, meeting in Brussels between representatives of MOL Group and Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič on the subject of EU Trade and Economic Security
I would like to receive this information electronically. I prefer you produce the documents on a rolling basis. At no point should the Commission’s search for—or deliberations concerning—certain documents delay the production of others that the Commission has already retrieved and elected to produce.
Should my request be denied wholly or partially, please explain the denial or all deletions referring to specific exemptions in the regulation. I would also expect the partial release of documents in case of partial exemption according to article 4.6. I reserve the right to appeal.
My address is:
DeSmog UK
5 Brayford Square
London, E1 0SG
Please confirm having received this application. I look forward to your reply within 15 business days, according to the regulation cited above.
With thanks,
Brigitte Wear
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 07/08/2025 and registered on 08/08/2025 under the case number
2025/4075.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 01/09/2025. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security - Access to Documents
European Commission
References
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1. https://ec.europa.eu/info/principles-and...
Dear Ms Wear,
We are writing concerning your application for public access to Commission
documents registered on 8 August 2025 under case number EASE 2025/4075.
In accordance with Article 2(1) and (2) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
(OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43 – ‘Regulation 1049/2001’), both read in
conjunction with Article 1 of the European Commission (recently revised)
[2]Detailed rules for the application of Regulation 1049/2001 (cf.
Commission Decision (EU) 2024/3080 of 4 December 2024 establishing the
Rules of Procedure of the Commission and amending Decision C(2000) 3614 –
OJ L, 5.12.2024, p. 30), since 6 December 2024 only EU citizens and
natural or legal persons residing or having their registered office in an
EU Member State have the right to public access to Commission documents
under Regulation 1049/2001.
In this regard, we noticed that the postal address provided is located
in the UK.
Therefore, in order to start handling your request, we kindly ask you to
send us a proof of your EU citizenship.
The 15 working days to reply to your application will start running only
upon receipt of the proof of citizenship.
Please note that if you do not reply within 5 working days to this
request, we will close the case.
For any future requests, we kindly ask you to proceed through our EASE
portal at the following link: [3]Electronic Access to Commission Documents
(EASE) - [4]https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/docume....
Like this you may much easier follow-up on your requests and the related
developments.
Please note that otherwise, if you wish to continue submitting your
applications via email, we will have to perform every time an identity
check and to verify your EU citizenship and/or residential status. In this
context, please also note that the current data protection framework in
place does not allow us to keep/store your personal data and the
respective proofs in this regard.
Kind regards,
DG TRADE Public Access to Documents Team
References
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1. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2001/1...
2. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/3...
3. https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/docume...
4. https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/docume...
Dear Ms Wear,
We refer to your email application for public access to documents of 7
August 2025, registered on 8 August 2025 under the EASE reference number
2025/4075.
Your application is currently being handled and the reply to it should be
finalised very soon.
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 2
September 2025, i.e. today.
An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns documents
held by different Services, which must be consulted.
Therefore, we have to extend the time limit by 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 23 September 2025.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
DG TRADE Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R2 – Single Entry Point for implementation, Outreach and
Transparency, SMEs
CHAR
1049 Brussels
Belgium
Dear Ms Wear,
Please find attached the reply to your initial request for public access
to Commission documents registered under the above case number EASE
2025/4075.
Kindly acknowledge the receipt of the present message by return email
(including copying the CC recipient). Thank you very much in advance!
Kind regards,
DG TRADE Public Access to Documents Team