Our reference: 2025-0448

Dear Mr Fanta,

The European Parliament hereby acknowledges receipt of your message, which
was registered on September 3, 2025.

All applications for public access to documents are treated in compliance
with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access
to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.

In accordance with the above-mentioned Regulation, your application will
be handled within 15 working days upon registration of your request.

Your personal data will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU)
2018/1725 of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with
regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions,
bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data. A
detailed privacy statement is available [1]here.

The European Parliament reserves the right to ask for additional
information regarding your identity in order to verify compliance with
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and the European Parliament’s implementing
measures.

Your attention is drawn to the fact that you have lodged your application
via the AsktheEU.org website, which is a private website not officially
related to the European Parliament. Therefore, the European Parliament
cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to
the use of this system.

In addition, please note that any personal data that you provide by using
AsktheEU.org website may be disclosed to the general public and visible on
this private website. The European Parliament cannot be held responsible
for such disclosure. Should you need to communicate directly to Parliament
any personal data and would like to avoid public disclosure, you may do so
from your private email address by using the following functional mailbox
address: AccesDocs(at)europarl.europa.eu

Best regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[2][European Parliament request email]
[3]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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Our reference: 2025-0448

Dear Mr Fanta,

The time limit for responding to your application for public access to
documents under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, as registered on September
3, 2025, expires today, on September 24, 2025.

However, our consultations are taking more time than expected, so that
Parliament must exceptionally extend the time limit provided by Article
7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 by a further 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of that Regulation in order to reply to your
application.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. We thank you for your
understanding.

Best regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[1][European Parliament request email]
[2]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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Our reference: 2025-0448

Dear Mr Fanta,

The time limit for responding to your application for public access to
documents under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, as registered on 3 September
2025, expires today, on 15 October, 2025.

However, the decision related to your application is still being prepared.
It will be sent to you by post without delay once finalised.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. We thank you for your
understanding.

Best regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[1][European Parliament request email]
[2]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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Our reference: 2025-0448

Dear Mr Fanta,

This is in response to your application submitted under [1]Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 for public access to documents pertaining to the recent
change of rules on access to the European Parliament premises from 1^st
September 2025, as reported in a [2]Politico article.

Please note that there was no Bureau Decision related to access to the
Parliament that entered in force on 1 September 2025. The latest Decision
of the Bureau of the Parliament on Rules on Access to the European
Parliament entered into force on 13 May 2025 and is publicly available at
[3]this link.

Please be informed that the following decisions regarding access to
Parliament premises entered into force on 1 September and have been made
public on Parliament’s Public Register of Documents:

-       Decision of the Secretary-General of 2 July 2025 on Implementing
Rules on Access to the Parliament’s Premises, available under register
reference [4]EP-PE_DES(2025)0469, and directly at [5]this link;

-       Decision of the Director-General for Security and Safety of 3 July
2025 on Technical Provisions on Access to Parliament’s Premises, available
under register reference [6]EP-PE_DES(2025)0448 and directly at [7]this
link.

On this basis, Parliament considers your application handled and the
procedure closed. Should you wish to submit any new requests for specific
Parliament documents, [8]please do not hesitate to come back to us.

Kind regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[9][European Parliament request email]
[10]www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb

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3. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/274...
4. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreW...
5. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/p...
6. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreW...
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8. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreW...
9. mailto:[European Parliament request email]
10. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWeb