GPE III - Kenya - Disbursement Dates
Dear European Investment Bank,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
A list of disbursements by date that were made under each finance contract of the GPE III Kenya project: https://www.eib.org/en/projects/loans/al...
The list should include the following information for each disbursement:
Date of disbursement
Recipient of disbursement
Amount disbursed
Currency used for disbursement (e.g. US Dollar, Euro etc)
For purposes of context and reference, prior EIB Request Reference: IFD000010237417 may be referred to. Thank you for your time and attention to this request. I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Mike Maina
Dear Mr. Maina,
Thank you for your e-mail to the European Investment Bank (EIB), the
long-term financing institution of the European Union.
We hereby confirm receipt of your query of 12 August 2023 received via the
AsktheEU website. In accordance with the provisions of the EIB Group
Transparency Policy, we will revert to you without delay and in any case
within 15 working days from the date of receipt of your request.
In line with Article 5.23 and 5.24 of the EIB Group Transparency Policy,
should we consider your request to be complex, we will endeavour to
provide a reply no later than 30 working days following receipt.
We thank you in advance for your understanding, and remain at your
disposal should you need any further update on the handling of your query
by the EIB.
Many thanks for your kind understanding.
Yours sincerely,
Infodesk Team
European Investment Bank
[EIB request email]
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From: Mike MAINA <[FOI #13391 email]>
Sent: 12 August 2023 at 03:52
Subject: access to documents request - GPE III - Kenya - Disbursement
Dates
From: [FOI #13391 email]
Sent: 12/08/2023 03:52
To: InfoDesk
Dear European Investment Bank,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the
following information:
A list of disbursements by date that were made under each finance contract
of the GPE III Kenya project:
[2]https://www.eib.org/en/projects/loans/al...
The list should include the following information for each disbursement:
Date of disbursement
Recipient of disbursement
Amount disbursed
Currency used for disbursement (e.g. US Dollar, Euro etc)
For purposes of context and reference, prior EIB Request Reference:
IFD000010237417 may be referred to. Thank you for your time and attention
to this request. I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Mike Maina
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for contacting the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Your request was assigned the following Reference Number (WO1094094).
Please retain this number for any future communication.
We hereby confirm receipt of your query, which is being handled in line
with the provisions of the EIB Group Transparency Policy. We will revert
to you as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
EIB Infodesk team
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Dear Mr Maina,
We refer to your request of 12 August 2023 sent to the European Investment
Bank (EIB) via the AsktheEU.org website[1][1] concerning the EIB loan for
the Global Private Enterprise III operation in Kenya (GPE III –
Kenya)[2][2]. We also refer to our acknowledgement of receipt of 16 August
2023. Your request was handled in line with the EIB Group Transparency
Policy[3][3] (EIB-TP), which applies to such requests addressed to the
EIB. We have extended the time limit to respond due to the complexity of
your request, which concerns an old operation in which the EIB is no
longer involved.
In your message, you ask for “A list of disbursements by date that were
made under each finance contract of the GPE III Kenya project:
[4]https://www.eib.org/en/projects/loans/al....
You further specify that:
“The list should include the following information for each disbursement:
Date of disbursement
Recipient of disbursement
Amount disbursed
Currency used for disbursement (e.g. US Dollar, Euro etc)”
Please note that, on 29 January 2020, in response to your prior request
Reference IFD000010237417, the EIB already provided you a list of
disbursements, including the dates of disbursement, the amount and the
currencies, that the EIB made under GPE III – Kenya operation, which was
compiled based on data recorded in our systems. A copy of this list is
attached again for ease of reference, including a breakdown by tranches of
the finance contract. Kindly note that the only recipient of these
disbursements was the Kenyan government, who then channelled those funds,
via the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), to selected commercial and
development banks.
We hope you find this information useful and remain at your disposal
should you need any further clarifications.[5][4]
Yours sincerely,
Infodesk Team
European Investment Bank
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[6]https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/gpe_...
2 [7]https://www.eib.org/en/projects/loans/al...
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[8]https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-...
4 In line with Article 5.31, EIB-TP, in case of a total or partial refusal
following your initial application, you have the right to make a
confirmatory application asking the Bank to reconsider its position or
lodge a complaint with the EIB Group Complaints Mechanism.
_____________________________________
For more details concerning EIB procedures for handling information
requests, please refer to the EIB Group "Transparency Policy":
([9]https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-...).
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
From: InfoDesk <[10][email address]>
Sent: Wednesday 16 August 2023 09:28
To: InfoDesk <[11][email address]>;
[12][FOI #13391 email]
Subject: WO1094094 : access to documents request - GPE III - Kenya -
Disbursement Dates
Dear Mr. Maina,
Thank you for your e-mail to the European Investment Bank (EIB), the
long-term financing institution of the European Union.
We hereby confirm receipt of your query of 12 August 2023 received via the
AsktheEU website. In accordance with the provisions of the EIB Group
Transparency Policy, we will revert to you without delay and in any case
within 15 working days from the date of receipt of your request.
In line with Article 5.23 and 5.24 of the EIB Group Transparency Policy,
should we consider your request to be complex, we will endeavour to
provide a reply no later than 30 working days following receipt.
We thank you in advance for your understanding, and remain at your
disposal should you need any further update on the handling of your query
by the EIB.
Many thanks for your kind understanding.
Yours sincerely,
Infodesk Team
European Investment Bank
[13][EIB request email]
_____________________________________
For more details concerning EIB procedures for handling information
requests, please refer to the EIB Group "Transparency Policy":
([14]https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-...).
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From: Mike MAINA
Sent: 12 August 2023 at 03:52
Subject: access to documents request - GPE III - Kenya - Disbursement
Dates
From: [15][FOI #13391 email]
Sent: 12/08/2023 03:52
To: InfoDesk
Dear European Investment Bank,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in
Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the
following information:
A list of disbursements by date that were made under each finance contract
of the GPE III Kenya project:
[16]https://www.eib.org/en/projects/loans/al...
The list should include the following information for each disbursement:
Date of disbursement
Recipient of disbursement
Amount disbursed
Currency used for disbursement (e.g. US Dollar, Euro etc)
For purposes of context and reference, prior EIB Request Reference:
IFD000010237417 may be referred to. Thank you for your time and attention
to this request. I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Mike Maina
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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the TFEU
and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via the
AsktheEU.org website.
Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[17][FOI #13391 email]
If [18][EIB request email] is the wrong address for information requests to
European Investment Bank, please tell the AsktheEU.org team on email
[19][email address]
This message and all replies from European Investment Bank will be
published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
dedicated page for EU public officials at
[20]https://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers
Please note that in some cases publication of requests and responses will
be delayed.
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[26]https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-...
[27][4] In line with Article 5.31, EIB-TP, in case of a total or partial
refusal following your initial application, you have the right to make a
confirmatory application asking the Bank to reconsider its position or
lodge a complaint with the EIB Group Complaints Mechanism.
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Dear European Investment Bank,
Thank you for your response and for providing the colour coded document regarding the disbursement dates which I have reviewed.
To provide some additional context for the current request, excerpts from the prior request communications were as follows:
On February 7, 2020, I received this communication:
The EIB notes that neither your initial request nor the subsequent correspondence sought a list of which disbursements were made under each finance contract, despite it being known that GPE III – Kenya consisted of three contracts.
On March 10, 2020, I responded as follows:
I acknowledge that the request for disbursements respective to each facility is beyond the initial scope of the request. I will consider submitting a new request in that regard.
After reviewing the attachment containing the disbursement dates, I would like to request additional clarification, as the wording in the document implies that this was a single contract while there were three contracts involved: "Disbursements under the three different tranches of the finance contract have been highlighted in the same colour."
Please clarify as the description below the table does not seem to note the three contracts, each having multiple tranches. If it is at all possible, please list the individual contracts alongside the disbursement amount and dates, as this would provide greater clarity and association to each individual contract without ambiguity considering that some tranches have dates within the same calendar years. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Maina
Dear Mr. Maina,
Thank you for your follow-up message of 12 September 2023 regarding your access to documents request of 12 August 2023 sent to the European Investment Bank (EIB) via the AsktheEU.org website.
We hereby confirm receipt of your follow-up query, which is being handled in line with the provisions of the EIB Group Transparency Policy. We will revert to you as soon as possible.
Many thanks for your kind understanding.
Yours sincerely,
Infodesk Team
European Investment Bank
[EIB request email]
_____________________________________
For more details concerning EIB procedures for handling information requests, please refer to the EIB Group "Transparency Policy": (https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-...). If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
Dear Mr. Maina,
Thank you for your follow-up e-mail of 12 September 2023 sent to the European Investment Bank (EIB) via the AsktheEU.org website [1] regarding the EIB loan for the Global Private Enterprise III operation in Kenya (GPE III – Kenya) [2]. We also refer to our acknowledgement of receipt of the same date. Your request has been handled in line with the EIB Group Transparency Policy (EIB-TP) [3].
In your message, you ask for clarifications as the description below the table previously disclosed referred to “tranches”, instead of to the three “contracts”. You also ask us to “list the individual contracts alongside the disbursement amount and dates, as this would provide greater clarity and association to each individual contract without ambiguity”.
We acknowledge that the reference to “tranches” in our previous communication may have been unclear. We confirm that the breakdown provided to you relates to the three different contracts.
For the sake of clarification, we are pleased to attach to this message a new table listing the individual contracts alongside the disbursement amount and dates, as requested.
We hope you find this information useful and remain at your disposal should you need any further clarifications [4].
Yours sincerely,
Infodesk Team
European Investment Bank
[EIB request email]
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[1] https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/gpe_...
[2] https://www.eib.org/en/projects/loans/al...
[3] https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-...
[4] In line with Article 5.31, EIB-TP, in case of a total or partial refusal following your initial application, you have the right to make a confirmatory application asking the Bank to reconsider its position or lodge a complaint with the EIB Group Complaints Mechanism.
Dear European Investment Bank,
Thank you for the clarification that you have provided regarding the finance contracts. The attachment of a new table listing the individual contracts alongside the disbursement amount and dates is most helpful and provides the clarity that I was seeking.
I consider this request fulfilled. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Mike Maina