Meeting with Dutch MP's about agricultural/environmental topics, including the nature Restoration Law
Dear Parliament,
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:
Minutes, communication, correspondence and other documents regarding meetings of a delegation of Dutch members of Parliament on 22nd of May 2023 with EU bodies such as the European Commission and the European Parliament. One of the topics discussed was the nature restoration law.
Since the information might at least partly also concern "activities affecting or likely to affect" the "state of the elements of the environment", I believe Regulation 1367/2006 applies.
Should you encounter any difficulties in interpreting or processing my request, I am ready to discuss ways to clarify or amend it to keep the effort required on your part to the necessary minimum.
Please send me an acknowledgement of receipt for this request, as foreseen by Article 7 (1) of Regulation 1049/2001. I would appreciate it if you could send a list of documents that correspond to my request. Please note I prefer to receive the documents in digital format, not by physical mail.
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
Follow the Money
Overtoom 197-1
1054HT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Our reference: 2023-3643
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Dear Mr Daalder,
With regard to your application for public access to documents, Parliament
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Specifically, in your request you mention "meetings of a delegation of
Dutch members of Parliament on 22nd of May 2023 with EU bodies such as the
European Commission and the European Parliament".
Could you please specify the meetings you refer to, providing us with
details about where they took place, between which parties and on which
topics specifically?
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TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
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Dear European Parliament,
In a report by Dutch MP's from October 2023 on the nature restoration, they write this:
'3.3 Bezoek aan Brussel d.d. 22 mei 2023
Het bezoek aan Brussel werd uiteindelijk een bezoek van een grote delegatie van de LNV-commissie aan een aantal instellingen in Brussel, waarbij over meer voorstellen werd gesproken, maar waarbij de Natuurherstelverordening hot topic nummer 1 was.
Onder meer werd gesproken met:
- de plv Permanent Vertegenwoordiger bij de EU over het krachtenveld en beïnvloedingsmogelijkheden;
- de Eurocommissaris voor de Green Deal, de heer Timmermans, die de delegatie van de LNV-commissie meenam in de besluitvorming en achtergronden en die oog had voor de zorgen van Nederland. De zorgen van de commissie over het verslechteringsverbod buiten Natura 2000-gebieden en de stapeling van effecten konden bij hem rekening op begrip in een constructief gesprek;
- een aantal Europarlementariërs, die inzicht gaven in de discussies in het Europees Parlement en met wie enkelen van onze leden pittige discussies hebben gevoerd.'
You can find this report here: https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/...
I do not know which Dutch MP's were present at these meetings, but you can find all members of the agricultural parliamentary committee here: https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerleden_en...
Regarding the meeting with Mr. Timmermans, I have submitted a similar request with DG Envi. But because the Dutch MP's also spoke with MEP's, I am also submitting this request with the European Parliament.
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
Dear European Parliament,
In my previous message I sent a link with all members of the agricultural parliamentary committee. However, because of elections, the members of the committee have also changed. You can see the old membership here: https://web.archive.org/web/202312061246...
For your convenience I have copied the list here:
Dion Graus (PVV)
Roelof Bisschop (SGP)
Mustafa Amhaouch (CDA)
Joost Eerdmans (JA21)
Edgar Mulder (PVV)
Alexander Kops (PVV)
Sandra Beckerman (SP)
Tjeerd de Groot (D66)
Suzanne Kröger (GL-PvdA)
Mohammed Mohandis (GL-PvdA)
Laura Bromet (GL-PvdA)
Roelien Kamminga (VVD)
Raoul Boucke (D66)
Stephan van Baarle (DENK)
Pieter Grinwis (CU)
Lisa van Ginneken (D66)
Joris Thijssen (GL-PvdA)
Peter de Groot (VVD)
Thom van Campen (VVD)
Gideon van Meijeren (FVD)
Kiki Hagen (D66)
Derk Boswijk (CDA)
Peter Valstar (VVD)
Silvio Erkens (VVD)
Caroline van der Plas (BBB)
Marieke Koekkoek (Volt)
Anne-Marijke Podt (D66)
Mark Strolenberg (VVD)
Erik Haverkort (VVD)
Jimmy Dijk (SP)
Eline Vedder (CDA)
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder
Our reference: 2023-3643
Dear Mr Daalder,
This concerns your request for public access to documents relating to
meetings between a delegation of members of the Dutch Parliament and EU
bodies on the 22 May 2023.
Please note that we can only assess and provide access to documents held
by the European Parliament and not by other EU Institutions, if these
documents have not been shared with the Parliament. Likewise, we can only
assess and provide access to documents held by the administration of the
European Parliament (see also [1]Rule 122(2) of Parliament’s Rule of
Procedure).
As regards the visit of the Dutch parliamentarians to the European
Parliament, please note that it was organised by the Dutch representative
to the EP, with no involvement of European Parliament’s administration
other than logistical support.
The only documents relating to this visit that were shared and are held by
Parliament’s administration are the list of participants and the agenda,
which have now been published, after redaction of marginal personal data,
on Parliament's [2]Public Register of documents, under the register
reference EP-PE_DV(2023)3643, and they are available [3]here.
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[4]https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2023/0...
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[5]https://nos.nl/artikel/2476092-verzet-te....
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Commission, you could consult Commission’s website, [6]here.
On this basis, Parliament considers your application handled and the
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Parliament documents, [7]please do not hesitate to come back to us.
Best regards,
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
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Dear European Parliament,
Thank you for your swift reply. I'll wait for the info from DG Envi then. You can consider this request finished!
Yours faithfully,
Jan Daalder