Meetings between DG Trade staff and EFPIA, 2015-2019
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:
a list of lobby meetings between DG Trade staff and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associates from 2015 to 2019.
As well as all documents - including but not limited to minutes, (hand-written) notes, audio recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, e-mails, and presentations, correspondence (i.e. any emails, correspondence, telephone call notes, and/or text messages
including WhatsApp exchanges) – related to:
DG trade interactions with the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associates on the issue of the EU-MERCOSUR trade negotiations between 2015 and 2019.
Yours faithfully,
Asha Herten-Crabb
WIDE+ Europe
Rue d'Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles,
Brussels
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 11/01/2024 and registered on 12/01/2024 under the case number
2024/0203.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 02/02/2024. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Trade - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/0203.
Kind regards,
Dear DG Trade,
My interest is explicitly on meetings held between DG Trade and EFPIA regarding the EU-MERCOSUR trade negotiations from 2015-2019. Details of dates and participants involved in discussions between the two on trade agreements more broadly would also suffice. I am specifically interested in discussions around intellectual property clauses in EU FTAs.
To reduce the scope of the request, I will limit the type of documents requested to the dates, attendees, agenda and minutes of meetings, presentations, reports shared, and any email correspondence regarding this issue.
Yours faithfully,
Asha Herten-Crabb
Dear Ms HERTEN-CRABB,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 12/01/2024 under case number 2024/0203.
Your application is currently being handled. 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 23/02/2024 i.e. today.
An extended time limit is needed becasue in order to retrieve the
documents requested, large files have to be examined;
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, we
need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new time
limit expires on 15/03/2024.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
ATD team
DG TRADE
Dear ATD team,
Thanks very much for the update, I really appreciate your efforts.
Best,
Asha
Dear Ms HERTEN-CRABB,
We refer to your application for public access to documents of 12 January 2024, registered under the EASE reference number 2024/0203.
Your application concerns documents held by different units within DG TRADE. The extended deadline to reply to your request for access to documents at subject expired on 15 March 2024.
However, we would like to inform you that the response to your request has already been submitted for approval to the competent persons and we expect that we will be able to send it to you very shortly.
We apologise for any inconvenience this delay may cause you .
Yours sincerely,
DG TRADE Access to Documents Team
European Commission
Directorate General for Trade
Unit R3 Transparency, Civil Society and Communications
CHAR
1049 Brussel
Belgium
Dear DG TRADE Access to Documents Team,
Thanks very much for the update, I appreciate it.
Best,
Asha Herten-Crabb
Dear Ms HERTEN-CRABB,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2024/0203.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,