EC Decision/s on withdrawal of several legislative proposals (2025)
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
On October 6th the Commission has published on the OJ Serie “C” (Communications) a list of withdrawal of several legislative pending proposals without publishing the relevant Commission Decision/s justifying the withdrawals of each one of the proposals at stake. Among these withdrawals decisions one concerns Regulation CE 1049/2001.
According to art.296 TFEU the Commission decision/s “shall state the reasons on which they are based and shall refer to any proposals, initiatives, recommendations, requests or opinions required by the Treaties” and such reasons shall be at the disposal of the EU Citizens and the National Parliaments.
Under the right of access to documents in art.15.3 TFEU , I am requesting access to the withdrawal decision and notably of of the legislative proposal concerning the revision of Regulation n. 1049/2001 on access to EU documents.
In case no explicit Decision exists, I am asking all the relevant, internal documents and exchange of messages justifying the above mentioned withdrawal.
Yours faithfully,
Emilio De Capitani
11 rue Darwin
1190 Forest (Bruxelles)
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 14/11/2025 and registered on 14/11/2025 under the case number
2025/5942.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 05/12/2025. 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,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/5942.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards.
My application for access to documents EASE 2025/5942
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Thanks to your reply.
Unfortunately the documents you sent me do not explain the reasons why so many legislative pending procedures have been closed . This is notably the case for the revision of Regulation (EC) 1049/01 which should be updated in the light of the Lisbon Treaty and of the Charter which entered into force in December 2009.
Also in the eyes of EU Citizens and Civil society the EC decision of Closing a legislative procedure is an important decision at least as it is a motivated decision of not launching a new EU legislative procedure (see mutatis mutandis the Client Heart Ruling in Case C‑57/16 P, par.107-109)
Because of this I kindly ask you to disclose in compliance with art 15.2 TFEU the relevant documentation explaining the reasons justifying the withdrawal of the legislative procedures.
In the specific case of the withdrawal of the legislative proposals revising the Regulation (EC) 1049/01 maybe the Commission document SPI(2025)39 cited in the EC Minutes may reply to my request.
Thanks in advance for your support
Yours
Emilio De Capitani
11 rue Darwin
1190 BRUXELLES
Your message has been received by the Transparency Unit of the
Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
Requests for public access to documents are treated on the basis of
[1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
The Secretariat-General will reply to your request within 15 working days
upon registration of your request and will duly inform you of the
registration of the request (or of any additional information to be
provided in view of its registration and/or treatment).
L’unité «Transparence» du secrétariat général de la Commission européenne
a bien reçu votre message.
Les demandes d’accès du public aux documents sont traitées sur la base du
[2]règlement (CE) n° 1049/2001 du 30 mai 2001 relatif à l’accès du public
aux documents du Parlement européen, du Conseil et de la Commission.
Le secrétariat général répondra à votre demande dans un délai de 15 jours
ouvrables à compter de la date d’enregistrement de votre demande, et vous
informera de cet enregistrement (ou vous indiquera toute information
supplémentaire à fournir en vue de l'enregistrement et/ou du traitement de
votre demande).
Ihre Nachricht ist beim Referat „Transparenz“ des Generalsekretariats der
Europäischen Kommission eingegangen.
Anträge auf Zugang zu Dokumenten werden auf der Grundlage der
[3]Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1049/2001 vom 30. Mai 2001 über den Zugang der
Öffentlichkeit zu Dokumenten des Europäischen Parlaments, des Rates und
der Kommission behandelt.
Das Generalsekretariat beantwortet Ihre Anfrage innerhalb von
15 Arbeitstagen nach deren Registrierung und wird Sie über die
Registrierung Ihres Antrags (oder die Notwendigkeit weiterer Informationen
im Hinblick auf dessen Registrierung und/oder Bearbeitung) unterrichten.
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3. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/...
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2025/5942, sent on 30/11/2025 and registered on 01/12/2025.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 22/12/2025. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
Dear Mr De Capitani,
We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case EASE 2025/5942 registered on 01/12/2025.
We are currently working on your confirmatory request. However, we have
not yet been able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full
analysis of your request. Due to the need to conduct internal
consultations, we will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 22/12/2025.
Therefore, in line with Article 8(2) 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 22/01/2026.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
SG A.2 - Access to documents team
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Dear Mr De Capitani,
We are writing to you concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case EASE 2025/5942, registered on 01/12/2025 .
On 22/12/2025, we extended the time-limit for replying to your
confirmatory request to 22/01/2026.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to send you the reply within this
extended time limit. However, we want to assure that the decision is
already under validation.
We are doing our best to send a reply to your confirmatory request as soon
as possible.
We regret this additional delay and sincerely apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
SG A.2 - Access to documents team
Dear DE CAPITANI, Emilio,
Please find attached the electronic version of European Commission
Decision C(2026) 803 as adopted by the European Commission on 03/02/2026
concerning the request 2025/5942.
In accordance with the Terms and Conditions of this portal, please note
that this decision is being formally notified pursuant to article 297 TFEU
through this electronic platform only.
Yours sincerely,
Access to documents team - SG.A.2