Dear Sir or Madam,

We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 18/01/2025 and registered on 21/01/2025 under the case number
2025/0339.

We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 11/02/2025. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.

To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.

Yours faithfully,

Directorate-General for Trade - Access to Documents
European Commission

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Dear Ms Verheecke,

We refer to your application for public access to documents of 21 January
2025, registered under the EASE reference number 2025/0339.

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 11
February 2025, 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 4 March 2025.

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 Verheecke,

Please find attached the reply to your initial request for public access
to Commission documents registered under the above case number EASE
2025/0339.

Kindly acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email. Thank you
very much in advance!

Kind regards,

DG TRADE Public Access to Documents Team