Ref. Ares(2024)964426 - 08/02/2024
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Secretariat-General
Directorate C – Transparency, Efficiency and Resources
SG.C.1-Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents
Brussels,
Peter Teffer
By email only with acknowledgment of
receipt:
ask+request-13938-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your confirmatory application for access to documents under Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 – EASE 2024/0130
Dear Mr Teffer,
I am writing in reference to your confirmatory application registered on 9 January 2024,
submitted in accordance with Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public
access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents1 (hereafter 'Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001').
Due to a clerical error, we failed to register your initial request until 9 January 2024, the same
day of your confirmatory request. We apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused
to you.
In your initial application, you requested access to:
‘The number of full-time equivalent staff available to handle access to documents requests,
per directorate-general (DG), per year since 2019.
If such documents do not exist, I would like to ask that my request is considered as a request
for information.’
The initial request was assigned to the Secretariat-General. As you did not receive any
communication from the Commission in relation to your request, you submitted a
confirmatory application on 8 January 2024.
In relation to your requests, at initial and confirmatory levels, the Secretariat-General informs
you that, after search for relevant documents, it could not find any document covering the full
scope of your request.
1 OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Against this background, the Secretariat-General will close your confirmatory application
related to the lack of initial reply, as well as your initial request, and, as you expressly
requested, will treat the case as a request for information.
In reply to your request for information, please note that the organisation of the work related
to access to documents in the Commission Directorates General is different from one to the
other. In general, each Directorate general must nominate a legal coordinator for access to
documents. Some Directorates general also nominate administrative coordinators for access
to documents. These persons are however in general not working full-time on access-to
documents issues. The number of these persons in the Commission amounts to date to 189.
We do not have figures for the years before, 2023 to 2019.
More specifically, the current staffing of the Secretariat-General in the access to documents
unit amounts to 19 persons including 14 case-handlers, these persons working full -time on
access-to-documents issues. For the previous years, as per your request from 2023 to 2019,
the numbers are as follow: 2023 - 2022: 12 case-handlers; 2021: 9 case-handlers; 2020: 10
case-handlers; 2019: 9 case-handlers.
Yours sincerely,
Mariusz Daca
Deputy Head of Unit
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Electronically signed on 08/02/2024 14:42 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121