Information regarding the DMA legislation
Mathias Schindler made this access to documents request to Secretariat General of the European Commission Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Please let us know if a further response is expected or if you are having trouble responding.
Greetings,
Please forward this email to the office of the President of the European Commission.
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 held by the Office of the President of the European Commission and her cabinet members.
All information in the conext of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) concerning
* remuneration for digital content OR
* the role of publishers OR
* rules on fairness for the provision of services OR
* the inclusion of search engines in the context of the DMA (in particular in the context of article 6) OR
* FRAND provisions OR
* the relationship of the DMA with the Copyright in the Digital Sigle Market Directive OR
* any communication with publishers or their representatives, associations or people acting on their behalf in the context of the DMA
For the avoidance of doubt, the term "information" and "documents" should be understood as broadly as possible and it should definitely include such information and documents that the Commission considers "short-lived" or "unimportant", including letters, correspondence, memos, drafts, meeting notes, records regardless of medium, language or format.
If you hold information in an electronic format, I am asking for an electronic copy of such information in its original data format.
The scope of this request includes but is not limited to any proposals, such as drafting suggestions or table documents for Art 6.1.kb and the relevant recitals in preparation for or during the Digital Markets Act trilogue of 24 March 2022. I want third party communication to be included in the scope of this request.
I am happy to grant you a reasonable amount of time for the required third party consultations regarding the release of content in possession of the Commission provided by third parties, such as lobbyists, outside legal counsel and member states. If permitted by applicable law, I am looking also for the names and affiliations of people who have submitted such information and I am asking for only the mimum amount of redaction of such names if required by law.
And really, really, since this has been an issue in the past: If a Commissioner, Cabinet or staff member of a DG unit is sending a comment, email, text message, draft or any other piece of data to another Commissioner or staff member in its own or a different DG falling under the scope of this request, I want a copy of this document. If you - for whatever reason - do not consider it relevant to be included in the EU eDomec or ARES system, it does not lose its property as a document under Regulation 1049/2001.
If you end up considering to invoke exceptions such as those concerning ongoing legislative work, I am willing to accept partial delivery of documents and kindly ask you to indicate the time at which other documents would no longer be covered by such an exception to allow for a speedy re-filing of this request.
Yours faithfully,
Mathias Schindler
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Dear Sir,
Thank you for your request for access to documents.
Unfortunately, you have not indicated your postal address. This is
necessary for registering and handling your request in line with the
procedural requirements.
Please send us your full postal address at your earliest convenience.
Pending your reply, we reserve the right to refuse the registration of
your request.
Alternatively, you may use directly the electronic form available on the
Europa website:
[5]http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/....
Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
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European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[7][email address]
Liebes Secretariat-General,
die Verordnung 1049/2001 kennt keine Verpflichtung zur Nennung einer Postadresse. Eine Postadresse ist auch deshalb völlig unsinnig, weil bis zum Abschluss eines Zweitantragsverfahren gar keine Postadresse zum Einsatz kommt. Die nachträglich von der Kommission hinzugefügte Behauptung, es müsse eine Postadresse genannt werden, dient allein der Abschreckung und der Verhinderung von Informationsfreiheitsanfragen.
Für Details dazu, warum Ihr Verhalten eine Maladministration darstellt, lesen Sie bitte Decision in case 682/2014/JF des EU Ombudsman Offices.
Im konkreten Fall ist es außerdem noch besonders unsinnig, nach einer Postadresse zu fragen, weil die Kommission bereits im Besitz einer gültigen Postadresse ist.
Ich sehe Ihrer schnellen Registrierung meiner Anfrage entgegen.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
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Dear Sir,
The scope of your below request is identical to a previous one you have
sent to Mr Whelan (Cabinet of President Von der Leyen) on 26 March 2022
and which was registered under GESTDEM No 2022/1810.
We will therefore not register the below request as it is a duplicate.
Best regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
If the scope of both requests is indeed the same and the handling of GESTDEM No 2022/1810 will indeed both cover documents held by Mr Whelan and his team as well as any other place within the SecGen, I agree to mark this request as a duplicate. Otherwise, I insist on a prompt registration of my request.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
Sehr geehrte / Sehr geehrter SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
Please confirm having received my last message. I await your confirmation regarding the scope of both requests.
Mit freundlichem Gruß,
Mathias Schindler
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,
We would like to inform you that further to internal assessment we will
consider the above attached request as a separate one. We nevertheless ask
you to kindly confirm that we can use this address for further
correspondence with you: Hermann Mattern-Promenade 25, 14469 Potsdam.
Upon receipt of your reply, a formal confirmation of registration of your
request will be sent to you.
We are looking forward to hearing from you very soon.
Best regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[5][email address]
Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
yes, you may use this address.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
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Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail of 26 March 2022. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 6
April 2022 under reference number GESTDEM 2022/1820.
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 2 May 2022. In case this time limit needs to
be extended, you will be informed in due course.
You have lodged your application via a private third-party website, which
has no link with any institution of the European Union.
Therefore, the European Commission cannot be held accountable for any
technical issues or problems linked to the use of this system.
Please note that the private third party running the AsktheEU.org website
is responsible and accountable for the processing of your personal data
via that website, and not the Commission.
For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s
privacy policy.
We understand that the third party running the AsktheEU.org website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that you may
have communicated to the Commission (e.g. your private postal address).
Similarly, the third party publishes on that website any reply that the
Commission will send to the email address of the applicants generated by
the AsktheEU.org website.
If you do not wish that your correspondence with the Commission is
published on a private third-party website such as AsktheEU.org, you can
provide us with an alternative, private e-mail address for further
correspondence. In that case, the Commission will send all future
electronic correspondence addressed to you only to that private address,
and it will use only that private address to reply to your request. You
should still remain responsible to inform the private third-party website
about this change of how you wish to communicate with, and receive a reply
from, the Commission.
For information on how we process your personal data visit our page
[5]Privacy statement - access to documents.
Yours faithfully,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
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European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
[7][email address]
Dear SG ACCES DOCUMENTS,
This is regarding GESTEM: 2022/1820. Is there anything you want to ask me, tell me or want to clarify?
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
Dear Mr Schindler,
At this point in time your application has been duly acknowledge by our
services (under ref. GESTDEM 2022/1820) and does not need any
reaction/feedback from you.
Best regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM (IC)
European Commission
Secretariat-General
SG.C1 (Transparency, Document Management and Access to Documents)
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[4]request for clarification with acknowledgment of receipt 03.05 -
GESTDEM 2022/1820 - Ares(2022)3331588 (Please use this link only if you
are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e)
utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Mr Schindler,
We refer to your email of 28 March 2022 in which you make a request for
access to documents under the above-mentioned reference number.
The description given in your application makes it very difficult for 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, namely:
· to specify the period for which ATD is requested
· to specify further name unit/people to focus on when you write ‘any
other place within the SecGen’
· to list the stakeholders (list of stakeholders e.g. publishers,
associations etc.) when you indicate ‘any communication with publishers or
their representatives, associations or people acting on their behalf in
the context of the DMA’
· to list / clarify the names of the Commission officials involved in this
request when you write ‘If a Commissioner, Cabinet or staff member of a DG
unit is sending a comment, email, text message, draft or any other piece
of data to another Commissioner or staff member in its own or a different
DG falling under the scope of this request, I want a copy of this
document’
If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you
can contact us by email to SG UNITE D-1 [5][email address]
In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules
for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 (Official Journal OJ L
345, 29.12.2001, p. 94), the deadline of 15 working days for handling your
application will start running when we receive the requested
clarifications.
We invite you to confirm the good acknowledgment of receipt of this email
by Tuesday 03.05 at the latest.
We thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
SG.D1
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Dear SG UNITE D-1,
Am 26. März 2022 habe ich einen Antrag auf Aktenzugang gestellt, am 29. März 2022 haben Sie den Empfang dieses Antrages bestätigt und dann - mit vielen Zwischenschritten - am 6. April 2022 die vom Gesetz vorgesehene Registrierung vorgenommen.
Am 29. April 2022 erklären Sie nun, dass sie Probleme haben, diese Anfrage zu verstehen.
Bevor ich Ihre Frage beantworten möchte, habe ich jedoch eine Gegenfrage:
Bitte listen Sie alle Schritte und Maßnahmen auf, die sie seit dem 26. März 2022 zur Beantwortung meiner Anfrage getan haben. Dazu zählen Datum und handelnde Person, sowie eine Beschreibung der Maßnahmen. Es ist schlichtweg unglaubwürdig, dass bei einer ordnungsgemäßen Verwaltung erst über einen Monat nach einem Antrag für Sie klarwird, dass Sie nicht wissen, was der Scope dieser Anfrage ist. Zur Beantwortung meiner Frage habe ich mir den 3. Mai 2022 vorgemerkt.
Nun zu Ihren Fragen:
* Zeitliche Periode: 2019 bis heute.
* Da ich keinen Zugriff auf die Personen in SecGen habe, kann dies nicht eingegrenzt werden. Sie können mir ein Verzeichnis mit der Aufgabenbeschreibung der personen geben und wir gehen einzeln durch, ob diese Personen möglicherweise im Besitz relevanter Informationen sind oder an diesen Interaktionen beteiligt waren.
* Eine Eingrenzung der Stakeholder wäre eine unnötige Einschränkung, es geht ja ausdrücklich um alle Informationen zu diesem Vorgang.
* Die Antwort auf die zweite Frage entspricht der Antwort auf die vierte Frage.
Bitte zögern Sie nicht, mich bei weiteren Fragen zeitnah zu kontaktieren.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
Dear SG UNITE D-1,
Bitte informieren Sie mich über den Stand der Bearbeitung meines Antrages auf Dokumentenzugang.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
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[4]Access to documents request - extension of the deadline - GESTDEM
2022/1820 - Ares(2022)3872746 (Please use this link only if you are an
Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e)
utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Sir,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 06.04.2022
under the above mentioned reference number. We also make reference to our
request for clarification, dated 29.04.2022. You replied via
[5][FOI #10903 email] on 29.04.2022, following
which, the time limit for handling your applications was 15 working days
pursuant to Article 7(3) of Regulation 1049/2001.
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 today.
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 16.06.2022.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours faithfully,
SG.D1
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Dear SG UNITE D-1,
Bitte informieren Sie mich, wie sie diese Fristen berechnet haben.
Eine Verlängerung der Bearbeitungsfrist nach Artikel 7 (3) der Verordnung ist eine Verlängerung der Bearbeitungsfrist einer Anfrage nach Dokumentenzugang möglich, wenn einige Bedingungen eingehalten werden. Dazu gehört, dass es sich um einen außergewöhnlichen Fall handelt und der Antragsteller im Voraus unter detaillierter Angabe von Gründen über diese Verzögerung informiert wird.
Diese Anforderungen haben Sie nicht eingehalten, unabhängig von der Frage, wie es zur ursprünglichen Stichtagsberechnung vom 23. Mai 2022 kam.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Schindler
[1]RE: Access to documents request - extension of the deadline - GESTDEM
2022/1820 - Ares(2022)3872746 - Ares(2022)4008440 (Please use this link
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êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares)
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email.
We are currently working on the reply to your request, and will get back
to you as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,
SG.D1
Dear Mr Schindler,
Please acknowledge receipt of this email within five working days to : [email address].
Kind regards,
SG.D1