London 2012 Olympic Stadium - State Aid complaint
Dear Competition (COMP),
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:
Your department's report which considers and rules on the complaint made by a British citizen, Steve Lawrence regarding unfair State Aid being provided in respect of West Ham's proposed usage of the Olympic Stadium. According to this press report:
http://www1.skysports.com/olympics/news/...
Mr Lawrence filed his complaint in August 2011, and your department upheld his complaint. I seek the document which explains your decision in this case.
Please note that at this stage I am not providing a full postal address. I am exercising my right not to do so, since I believe this document will exist in electronic form. I believe this because I have been in correspondence with your department more recently regarding the Olympic Stadium State Aid issue, and you were always happy to provide documents in electronic form
Yours faithfully,
Richard Hunt
Dear Mr. Hunt,
We acknowledge receipt of your request, but unfortunately we need your full postal address, please, find herewith attached the explanation why we need it.
Yours faithfully.
COMP ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
European Commission
DG COMPETITION
Unité R1
MADOU 12/78
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Dear Competition (COMP),
In respect of your request above for my full postal address, I am prepared to send you this directly to an email address box that you will provide me for this purpose. I request that you do not reproduce my address in any presences which you post to this website
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Hunt
Dear Mr Hunt,
We note your request regarding the non-disclosure of your postal address
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personal data, in line with the applicable Regulation No. 45/2001.
You can send us your address at this mailbox
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Kind regards,
COMP ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
Email sent on 16/12/2014
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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Acknowledgement of receipt
Subject : GESTDEM 2014-6050 - HUNT - ATT - access to information request -
London 2012 Olympic Stadium - State Aid complaint
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail dated 11/12/2014. We hereby acknowledge receipt
of your application for access to documents, which was registered
on 16/12/2014 under reference number Gestdem 2014/6050.
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
16/01/2015. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be
informed in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Hunt left an annotation ()
I received a reply from Mr Ewoud Sakkers, head of Unit. Unfortunately he refused to send his reply to this website - a matter which I will complain to him about.
His answer was that the Commission did not 'rule" on the case of the legacy use of the Olympic Stadium. Therefore the only document which exists is a short letter to the UK authorities advising them that the "investigation" is not being further pursued