Dear DG Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE),

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:

In November 2023 Dutch infrastructure minister Mark Harbers in a letter informed the Dutch parliament that the government had given up on a plan to cap the maximum number of flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.

Harbers also mentioned that after a US-EU meeting on November 13th, European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean had sent the Dutch government a letter expressing "serious concerns" about whether the cap had been properly vetted.

I herewith request access to the above-mentioned letter from European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean to the Dutch government.

In my access to documents request with case number 2023/6978 I had also asked for access to the letter sent by Commissioner Adina Vălean to the Dutch Minister Mark Harbers. My request was refused because "a review by the Commission is currently on-going" into the Dutch government's planned cap. I find the refusal problematic, but that aside: as the Dutch government in November announced its withdrawal of the measure (referring to the mentioned letter from Commissioner Vălean), I assume the review might have been completed by now (three months later).

I am not aware of any online possibility to assess the opening and closing of such reviews. I therefore re-submit my access to documents request, in the hope for the letter to be released urgently.

Yours faithfully,

Olivier Hoedeman
on behalf of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Rue d'Edimbourg 26,
1050 Brussels, Belgium