Dear Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail of 03 February 2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 03 February 2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/0740.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days. The time-limit will expire on 24 February 2022. In case this time-limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

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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
[DG TRADE request email]

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Dear Madam,

We refer to your e-mail of  03 February 2022 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 03 February 2022 under the above
mentioned reference number.

In your request you asked for:

o   all negotiation reports, minutes of meetings, transcribes between DG
Trade officials and representatives of ACP-Africa, relating to EPA trade
relations and negotiations (up until signing iEPAs).

The description given in your application does not enable us to identify
concrete documents, which would correspond to your request.

We therefore invite you, in accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, to provide us with
more detailed information on the documents you request, such as the
specific EPAs, stakeholders and defined time period(s), and if you request
reports of official negotiation rounds, and to EPAs that in the end are
effectively implemented, excluding those which are only initiated, but not
implemented?

Please also kindly find more information on our EPAs on our [1]dedicated
websites, including already publicly available [2]documents, such as
[3]meeting documents and [4]negation round reports for your further
orientation.

If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us by email to: [5][DG TRADE request email]

In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of  Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 [6]^^[1], the
deadline of 15 working days for handling your application will start
running when we receive the requested clarifications.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

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

[7][DG TRADE request email]

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Conference on the Future of Europe | #TheFutureIsYours |
[8]futureu.europa.eu

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[9][1]             Official Journal L 345, 29.12.2001, p. 94.

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Dear Madam,

We refer to your e-mail of  03 February 2022 in which you make a request
for access to documents, registered on 03 February 2022 under the above
mentioned reference number, and to your reply of 07 February 2022 to our
clarification request of 04 February 2022.

Your application is currently being handled. 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 24 February 2022.

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 with 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 17 March 2022.

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

[1][DG TRADE request email]

Make your voice heard
Conference on the Future of Europe | #TheFutureIsYours |
[2]futureu.europa.eu

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Dear Mrs Kurochka,

Please find attached a letter from Mrs Weyand, Director General for Trade, to your request for access to documents concerning all negotiation reports, minutes of meetings, transcribes between DG Trade officials and representatives of ACP-Africa, relating to EPA trade relations and negotiations (up until signing iEPAs).

Trade C1