Documents related to meetings between

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Dear Trade,

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:

All documents - including but not limited to minutes, (hand-written) notes, audio recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, e-mails, and presentations, correspondence (i.e. any emails, correspondence, telephone call notes, and/or text messages including WhatsApp exchanges) – related to the following meetings:

1. Michael Hager and Suzano S.A. on 04-04-2023 (Subject: State-of-play of the Mercosur agreement)
2. Cristina Rueda Catry and BusinessEurope on 05-07-2022 (Subject: State of play of the trade and investment negotiations between the EU and India, Mercosur and Chile)
3. Valdis Dombrovskis and BusinessEurope on 30-04-2021 (Subject: EU-Mercosur Agreement)

Yours faithfully,

Lucy Jordan
Canonbury Villas, London N1

TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 15/05/2023 and registered on 22/05/2023 under the case number
2023/2979.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 13/06/2023. 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
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Yours faithfully,

Directorate-General for Trade - Access to Documents
European Commission

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TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

Dear Ms Jordan,

We refer to your email application for public access to documents of 15
May 2023, registered on 22 May 2023 under the EASE reference number
2023/2979.

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 13
June 2023, 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 4 July 2023.

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 R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications

CHAR

1049 Brussels

Belgium

Dear Trade,

Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.

I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Documents related to meetings between:
1. Michael Hager and Suzano S.A. on 04-04-2023 (Subject: State-of-play of the Mercosur agreement)
2. Cristina Rueda Catry and BusinessEurope on 05-07-2022 (Subject: State of play of the trade and investment negotiations between the EU and India, Mercosur and Chile)
3. Valdis Dombrovskis and BusinessEurope on 30-04-2021 (Subject: EU-Mercosur Agreement)

The request was initially made on 15/05/2023 and registered on 22/05/2023 under the case number
2023/2979 with an initial deadline of 13/06/2023. That deadline was then extended to 4 July 2023.
I haven't heard anything since then. Please will you look into this for me.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/docum...

Many thanks,

Yours faithfully,

Lucy Jordan

TRADE-ACCES-DOCUMENTS@ec.europa.eu,

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    EASE 2023 2979 Reply to initial request.pdf

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    List of identified documents and type of disclosure.pdf

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    04 Meeting request BusinessEurope Redacted.pdf

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    05 Meeting request BusinessEurope Annex 1 Redacted.pdf

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    06 Meeting request BusinessEurope Annex 2 Redacted.pdf

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    08 Meeting follow up BusinessEurope Redacted.pdf

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    03 Meeting minutes BusinessEurope Redacted.pdf

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    02 Meeting minutes Suzano Redacted.pdf

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    01 Meeting request Suzano SA Redacted.pdf

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    07 Meeting minutes BusinessEurope.pdf

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Dear Ms Jordan,

Please find attached the reply to your initial request for public access
to Commission documents registered under the above case number ESE
2023/2979.

We apologise once more for the delay occurred in handling and for any
related inconveniences.

Kindly acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.

Kind regards,

DG TRADE Public Access to Documents Team