Documents related to the "Sustainable Food System Chapters" in the EU trade agreements
Dear Trade,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I request access to the following documents:
1. (i) minutes of the meetings of and (ii) copy of the work plans established by the Committee on Sustainable Food Systems in the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand;
2. any other document relating to the implementation of the Sustainable Food Systems chapter in the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand;
3. (i) minutes of the meetings of and (ii) copy of the work plans established by the Sub-committee on Sustainable Food Systems in the Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Chile;
4. any other document relating to the implementation of the Cooperation on Sustainable Food Systems chapter in the Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Chile;
5. any document pertaining to the negotiations of the new trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur showing whether the parties (or one of them) ever considered introducing a chapter on sustainable food systems in the new trade agreement and, if available, the draft chapters exchanged.
My mailing address is:
Via Verona 63
37011 Calmasino (VR)
Italy
Yours faithfully,
Giovanni Dall'Agnola
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 25/05/2025 and registered on 26/05/2025 under the case number
2025/2855.
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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 Trade,
Please kindly note that I am awaiting a response to my request. Since the time limit has expired, I would greatly appreciate any updates you may have.
Yours faithfully,
Giovanni Dall'Agnola
Dear Mr Dall'Agnola,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 26 May 2025 under case number EASE 2025/2855.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 18 June 2025.
The application concerns policy areas of different Services, which must be
consulted.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 9 July 2025.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
SANTE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
References
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1. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/...
Dear Sante/Trade,
Please kindly note that I am awaiting a response to my request. Since the already extended time limit has once again expired, I would greatly appreciate updates as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
Giovanni Dall'Agnola
Dear Trade/Sante,
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 the "Sustainable Food System Chapters" in the EU trade agreements'.
Please note that the documents and information requested have not been provided yet. No estimate of the additional time needed has been provided.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/request/documen...
Yours faithfully,
Giovanni Dall'Agnola
Dear Mr. DALL'AGNOLA,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/2855.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
European Commission
Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)
UNIT SANTE A5 (Bilateral International relations)
Dear Sante,
Thank you for your reply.
Regarding the EU-New Zealand SFS chapter, has the 2025 working plan (mentioned in the minutes of the SFS committee meeting) been adopted? If so, could you please share a copy of it?
Regarding Mercosur, the link to which you refer only shows the EU's textual proposals and the minutes of the negotiation rounds reports, which are not sufficiently detailed to exclude that an SFS chapter has ever been proposed/discussed by the parties. Could you please confirm that, in the negotiations, neither the EU nor Mercosur ever tabled the introduction of a chapter on sustainable food systems in the new trade agreement?
Yours faithfully,
Giovanni Dall'Agnola