Documents Regarding EU Voice & EU Video - Open Source Social Media
Dear Court of Justice of the European Union,
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:
For the period between 1 January 2019 to date:
- a list of all meetings held with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the Inter-Organisational Communications Committee (IOCC), and other institutions regarding EU Voice, EU Video and open source social media (Mastodon, Peertube, or other Fediverse related instances). The list should include: date of the meeting, individuals attending and their organisational affiliation, as well as the issues discussed; these shall include all the details related to the transition towards the new Mastodon CURIA instance.
- all minutes and other reports of these meetings;
- all documents prepared for the purpose of these meetings and/or exchanged during the course of these meetings, such as all reports, summaries, minutes, notes, or record-keeping
- all reports, summaries, minutes, notes, or record-keeping and documents of any kind produced by your institution of internal meetings relating to EU Voice, EU Video and open source social media (Mastodon, Peertube, or other Fediverse related instances), including date of the meeting, individuals attending and their organisational affiliation, as well as the issues discussed;
- any social media strategy documents and budget allocations related to EU Voice, EU Video and open source social media (Mastodon, Peertube, or other Fediverse related instances).
- and complaints made regarding EU Video or EU Voice, as well as decisions and outcome documents related to those complains
Yours faithfully,
Peter Mechels
Dear Sir,
Your application to access the documents was registered on 04.10.2024
under the reference No 0017/2024D. Please use this reference number in all
related correspondence.
You will receive a reply within a maximum period of one month from the
date of registration. Please note that this deadline is subject to
extension by the competent authority, pursuant to Article 5 (4) of the
decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of 26
November 2019 concerning public access to documents held by the Court of
Justice of the European Union in the exercise of its administrative
functions (OJ 2020 C 45/2, 'Decision of November 26, 2019').
In accordance with Article 6 (2) of the mentioned decision, upon expiry of
the reply period, you may submit, within one month, a confirmatory
application using the same form as that used to submit your initial
request.
Yours sincerely,
Maria PICHOU
Administratrice
Section Accès aux documents administratifs et archives historiques
Unité Services aux utilisateurs et aux citoyens
Direction de la Bibliothèque
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Dear Mr. Mechels,
In connection with your application for access to documents number
0017/2024D, I inform you that, pursuant to Article 5(4) of the DECISION OF
THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION of 26 November 2019 concerning
public access to documents held by the Court of Justice of the European
Union in the exercise of its administrative functions (2020/C 45/02), the
period provided for in paragraph 2 of that article is extended by one
month.
Your application relates to a large number of documents of various types
and formats, which come from several sources. Consequently, processing it
involves identifying the documents, searching for them in several
departments and institutions and finally examining, document by document,
the possible applicability of an exception to their disclosure, if
necessary after consulting their author.
Kind regards,
Yasmeen SEREIS
Administratrice
Section Accès aux documents administratifs et archives historiques
Unité Services aux utilisateurs et aux citoyens
Direction de la Bibliothèque
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From: Acces aux documents administratifs
Sent: vendredi 4 octobre 2024 17:09
To: [FOI #15047 email]
Subject: Your application to access administrative documents N°0017/2024D
Dear Sir,
Your application to access the documents was registered on 04.10.2024
under the reference No 0017/2024D. Please use this reference number in all
related correspondence.
You will receive a reply within a maximum period of one month from the
date of registration. Please note that this deadline is subject to
extension by the competent authority, pursuant to Article 5 (4) of the
decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of 26
November 2019 concerning public access to documents held by the Court of
Justice of the European Union in the exercise of its administrative
functions (OJ 2020 C 45/2, 'Decision of November 26, 2019').
In accordance with Article 6 (2) of the mentioned decision, upon expiry of
the reply period, you may submit, within one month, a confirmatory
application using the same form as that used to submit your initial
request.
Yours sincerely,
Maria PICHOU
Administratrice
Section Accès aux documents administratifs et archives historiques
Unité Services aux utilisateurs et aux citoyens
Direction de la Bibliothèque
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Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
L-2925 Luxembourg
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Bureau : TB +01 028
Tél : +352 4303 4909
Email : [6][email address]
Dear Sir,
In response to your application for access to documents number N°
0017/2024D,
the competent Authority within the meaning of Article 8 (5) of the
Decision of 26 November 2019 (2020/C 45/02) concerning public access to
documents held by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the
exercise of its administrative functions (OJ 2020 C 45/2, 'Decision of 26
November 2019'), has decided to grant you access to the attached
documents, which were identified as relevant to your request.
Kindly note that there are in total twelve (12) documents, corresponding
to the years 2019 up until now, as per your request.
• Minutes of meetings of the Inter-institutional online communication
committee (IOCC) :
Minutes from the Meeting of the IOCC Social Media Working Group, the
Inter-Organisational Communications Committee’ of the 5^th March 2021
Minutes from the 113th Meeting of the IOCC of the 23rd of January 2023
Minutes from the 114th Meeting of the IOCC of the 24^th of April 2023
Minutes from the 115th Meeting of the IOCC of the 26th of September 2023
Minutes from the 117th Meeting of the IOCC of the 19th of March 2024
Kindly note that no lists of meetings held with European Data Protection
Supervisor (EDPS), the Inter-institutional online communication committee
(IOCC) regarding EU Voice, Eu Video and open source social media exist.
• Documents prepared for the purpose of these meetings and/or exchanged
during the course of these meetings :
Joint Position of the Social Media Working Group of the IOCC, titled «
Alternative Social Media »
The EDPS Document titled « Alternative social media. Introduction to pilot
test » of December 2021
The presentation ‘Alternative Social Media – Presentation’, dated
23/01/2023
The presentation ‘Alternative Social Media – Final Approval’, dated
16/03/2022
The Report ‘Alternative Social media’, Mid-term report on the pilot
project EU Voice and EU video
The emails dated 23/02/2022 and 24/02/2022
The email dated 17/03/2021
Regarding the documents that originate from the European Data
Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and from the Inter-institutional online
communication committee (IOCC) - in accordance with Art. 4(4) of
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and Art. 9 of the Decision of the Court of
Justice of the European Union of 26 November 2019, the EDPS and IOCC have
been consulted to acquire their consent for granting access to them.
Please note that parts of the documents have been redacted either as ‘out
of scope’ as they did not fall under the scope of your request, or to
protect personal data, which may not be disclosed pursuant to Article
3(1)(b) of the Decision and the Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
Concerning the points 4, 5, and 6 of your request, please note that the
Court has not identified a) any minutes, reports, or other documents of
internal meetings related to EU Voice, EU Video and open source social
media; b) a social media strategy document and budget allocations related
to EU Voice, EU Video and open source social media; c) any complaints
regarding the EU Video or EU Voice.
We are also sending you the extract of the 2023 Activity Report of the
Court’s Communications Department, where there is information on the use
of social media by the Court.
Finally, please kindly note :
- that the Court’s « [1]Panorama de l'année 2023 » (Rapport
Annuel 2023, p. 89) and the « Management Report » (Rapport Annuel –
Rapport de Gestion 2023, p. 18-19) contain information on the Court's use
of social networks. They are both accessible on the institution’s website,
along with the reports of the previous years :
[2]https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_70...
- The issue of the use of social media and of Mastodon was also
raised in the [3]European Parliement’s Résolution (UE) 2021 de décharge de
l'exercice 2019 (OJ 2021 L 340, p. 123-130), para 33.
In accordance with Article 6 (1) of the DECISION OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE
OF THE EUROPEAN UNION of 26 November 2019 concerning public access to
documents held by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the
exercise of its administrative functions (2020/C 45/02), you may submit a
confirmatory application request confirming about this decision using the
same form as that of your initial request within one month from the
receipt of this decision, as established in paragraph 3 of the same
article.
Yours sincerely,
Maria PICHOU
Administratrice
Section Accès aux documents administratifs et archives historiques
Unité Services aux utilisateurs et aux citoyens
Direction de la Bibliothèque
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