Lobby contacts on the retail investment strategy
Dear Trade,
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:
1) Minutes of the following meetings, in which the retail investment strategy was discussed:
- Video conference of Andrea Beltramello and Michael Hager and Deutsche Bank on 22 February 2023
- Video conference of Andrea Beltramello and the European Banking Federation and others on 1 February 2023
- Video conference of Andrea Beltramello and Deutsche Bank on 19 January 2023
- Video conference of Andrea Beltramello with BVI and others on 18 January 2023
- Meeting of Michael Hager and Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.V. (Bankenverband) on 10 January 2023
- Video conference of Andrea Beltramello and GDV on 9 January 2023
- Meeting of Michael Hager and Berbalk Communications on 28 November 2022
2) A list of meetings since 1st November 2022 between officials of DG Trade/ the Commission working group "An Economy that Works for People" with external stakeholders, in which the Retail Investments Strategy and in particular a potential ban on inducements was discussed. Officials excludes the Commissioner and his Cabinet.
3) Correspondence since 1st November 2022 between Commissioner Dombrovskis, and/or his cabinet and/or officials from DG Trade/ the Commission working group "An Economy that Works for People" with external stakeholders regarding the Retail Investments Strategy and in particular a potential ban on inducements.
Please find my postal address here: Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende, Motzstraße 32, 10777 Berlin, Germany.
Yours faithfully,
Pia Eberhardt
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 10/05/2023 and registered on 10/05/2023 under the case number
2023/2815.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 02/06/2023. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
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Yours faithfully,
DG Trade - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Ms Eberhardt,
We refer to your email application for public access to documents of 10
May 2023, registered on the same date under the EASE reference number
2023/2815.
Your application is currently being handled and the reply to it should be
finalised very soon.
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 on 2
June 2023, i.e. today.
An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns documents
held by different Services, which must be consulted.
Therefore, we have to extend the time limit by 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 23 June 2023.
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
DG TRADE Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 – Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
CHAR
1049 Brussels
Belgium
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
We are writing to inform you that your requests for acces to documents
registered on 10 May 2023 under reference number 2023/2805 and 2023/2815
have been joined and will be dealt with by DG FISMA, in ccordination with
DG TRADE.
We are working on the reply to these requests. However, due to the number
of documents requested, searching operations and analysis of these
documents take more time than expected. Therefore, more time is needed to
deal with these requests and we are unfortunately not yet in position to
send you our reply.
We thank yiou for your patience and please accept our apologies for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Yous sincerely,
FISMA Access to documents
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/2815.
Best regards,
DG FISMA
Dear Trade,
thank you for your response.
I had already sent this message to DG FISMA on 5 October, see here: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/lobb...
Allow me one critical remark: I understand that you are working very hard to deal with the many information requests that must reach you. But I am shocked that it takes you nearly 5 months (!) and one reminder to ask me to narrow my requests while not releasing a single document. I don't think this is what is understood by a "fair solution" in the regulation.
Regarding the content of your proposal:
* I would like to narrow the scope of my request to points 1) and 2) and would like to ask you to consider the Commission's Code of Good Administrative Behaviour when dealing with point 2) of the request (for which you do not have to consult third parties).
* I would also be happy if you could produce the documents on a rolling basis in order to be able to respond in a reasonable period of time and serve me in the most efficient way.
Yours faithfully,
Pia Eberhardt
Dear Ms EBERHARDT,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2023/2815.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Best regards,
DG FISMA
Dear Madams and Sirs,
I would herewith like to acknowledge the receipt of this message. My apologies for not having been able to do that before.
Allow me one follow-up question of clarification and one remark:
1) There seems to be a mistake in one of the documents: ARES 2023 1679225 Minutes of the meeting 01.02.2023, https://www.asktheeu.org/de/request/1296...
The participants - banks - do not fit the content part of the minutes, which speak about Insurance Europe. Can you explain to me what happened and send me the correct document?
2) I know that Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 does not oblige the Commission to put together new documents when responding to requests. This is why I had asked to take the Code of Good Administrative Behaviour into account when dealing with the part of my request that referred to a list of meetings. DG Fisma and the Secretary General responded to that request in that spirit and released a list of documents as well. I would really appreciate if DG Trade would reconsider handling the request in light of the spirit of good administrative behaviour, too, and still release the list of meetings.
Best regards,
Pia Eberhardt
Dear Ms Eberhardt,
Our apology for this inconvenience caused by confusing two different
meeting minutes when drafting the document.
Please find the correct document related to the requested meeting “Video
conference with the European Banking Federation and others on 1 February
2023”
Please consider any other reference to the minutes of this meeting as
referring to the attached document.
Best regards
DG FISMA
Dear [email address],
thank you for the clarification and for sending the correct set of minutes.
Is there still a chance that DG Trade will send the list of documents? Or do I have to consider this request as closed?
Yours sincerely,
Pia Eberhardt