Ref. Ares(2021)6203978 - 12/10/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
The Director-General
Samuel Stolton
Rue Charles Degroux 27
1040 Brussels
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2021/5734
Dear Sir,
We refer to your request of 23 September 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents under the above-mentioned reference number.
We regret to inform you that the Commission’s Directorate-General for International
Partnerships does not hold any documents that would correspond to the description given in
your application.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission’s Directorate-General for International
Partnerships, we are not in a position to fulfil your request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make
a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt
of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency,
Document
Management
&
Access
to
Documents
(SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
[e-signed]
Koen DOENS
Electronically signed on 08/10/2021 18:49 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482