Meetings and Correspondence between Trade and Lufthansa Group
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:
All documentation, including, but not limited to, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, minutes/notes and email correspondence about or summarising the following meetings between Valdis Dombrovskis and Lufthansa.
1. Lufthansa Group and Executive VP Valdis Dombrovskis on 28/03/2023 on 'Aviation, green transition, level playing field, competitiveness, connectivity'.
Yours faithfully,
Lucca Ewbank,
1 Temple Avenue,
London,
United Kingdom
Dear Trade,
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 'Meetings and Correspondence between Trade and Lufthansa Group'.
My request has not be fulfilled and is now long overdue.
A full history of my request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/meet...
Yours faithfully,
Lucca Ewbank
Dear Mr. Ewbank,
I am the head of the Access to Documents service in the Directorate-General for Trade (DG TRADE) in the European Commission.
I refer to your e-mail of 17 May 2024 titled "Internal review of access to documents request - Meetings and Correspondence between Trade and Lufthansa Group". Please accept our sincere apology for a delay in handling your request and the lack of initial response from DG TRADE Access to Documents team. Due to a technical error beyond our control, your initial request of 29 August 2023 submitted through the external website www.asktheeu.org has never been registered in the European Commission Registry. As a result, we did not acknowledge the receipt of your initial request for access to documents of 29 August 2023.
Having verified the content of your request (namely: "All documentation, including, but not limited to, attendance lists, agendas, background papers, minutes/notes and email correspondence about or summarising the following meetings between Valdis Dombrovskis and Lufthansa." / "Lufthansa Group and Executive VP Valdis Dombrovskis on 28/03/2023 on 'Aviation, green transition, level playing field, competitiveness, connectivity.”), I can inform you that no Trade-related topic was discussed at the above-mentioned meeting.
Therefore, I kindly suggest that you resubmit your request to the Commission's Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport dealing directly with Commission's policy on transport. Please note that you can also submit a request for a Commission document directly via our website:
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/docume... without involving a third-party entities.
I trust that this reply will be helpful.
Kind regards
Maud Labat