Meeting with the Tony Blair Institute on 24/10/2023
Alexander Fanta made this access to documents request to Justice and Consumers This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Justice and Consumers,
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:
- All documents relating to a meeting with the Tony Blair Institute on 24/10/2023. This is meant to include meeting minutes, briefing notes, e-mails, etc. In case Tony Blair himself attended, I ask not to redact his name on the documents, as he is a public figure.
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
Follow the Money
Rue Auguste Orts 2
1000 Bruxelles
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 02/04/2024 and registered on 05/04/2024 under the case number
2024/1882.
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Mr Fanta,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 05/04/24 under case number 2024/1882.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. We will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 26/04/2024.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 22/05/24.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
SG D Secretariat
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Dear applicant,
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Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/1882.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
SG D Secretariat
Dear Justice and Consumers,
Please pass this on to the person who reviews confirmatory applications.
I am filing the following confirmatory application with regards to my access to documents request 'Meeting with the Tony Blair Institute on 24/10/2023'.
Initially, I would like to thank DG Just for the timely reply to this request.
I am filing this confirmatory application mainly because I find it hard to believe that there are no minutes, notes or any other kind of documents on the actual breakfast round-table event on October 24, 2023, as referenced in the documents. By this, I mean a "back to the office" report, minutes or perhaps an e-mail giving a summary of what was said. I ask the Commission to search for such a record, and provide it if possible. I note in this context that document 2 was apparently only added to the document register after my request, so perhaps other relevant documents have yet to be found.
Further, I would like to ask for an explanation regarding some of the redacted parts of document 2. For instance, the venue appears to have been redacted from the e-mail, as well as the registered company number of the TBI as well as where its office is registered. I would like to understand how this constitutes information related to the privacy and integrity of an individual, as referenced in Article 4(1)(b) of the Regulation, and how disclosure would undermine protection thereof. The venue of an event is not, as I understand it, personal data under Regulation 2018/1725. In any event, I ask to be given access to this information, as it could be relevant for comparisons with the information TBI has given on the Transparency Register.
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Fanta
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your confirmatory request for case
2024/1882, sent on 26/04/2024 and registered on 26/04/2024.
We will handle your confirmatory request within 15 working days as of the
date of registration. The time-limit expires on 22/05/2024. We will let
you know if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working
days.
Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Mr Fanta,
We are writing concerning your confirmatory request for access to
Commission documents for case 2024/1882 registered on 26/04/2024.
We are currently working on your confirmatory request. However, we have
not yet been able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full
analysis of your request. Due to the need to conduct internal
consultations, we will not be able to send you the reply within the
prescribed time limit expiring on 22/05/2024.
Therefore, in line with Article 8(2) of [5]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 we
need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new time
limit expires on 12/06/2024.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
SG C.1 - Access to documents team - cr
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Dear FANTA Alexander ,
Please find attached the electronic version of European Commission
Decision C(2024)4979 as adopted by the European Commission on 09/07/2024
concerning the request 2024/1882.
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that this decision is being formally notified pursuant to article 297 TFEU
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Yours sincerely,
Access to documents team - SG.C.1