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Lora Verheecke
Ministry of Forreign Affairs
Rijnstraat 8
2515 XP Den Haag
Postbus 20061
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2500 EB Den Haag
Nederland
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Nederland
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Min-BuZa.2022.12323-18
Date 27 September 2022
Re
Decision Open Government Act request
Dear Ms Verheecke,
In your email of 17 August 2022, you requested information on meetings
of the Dutch Permanent Representation to the European Union
with
representatives of Uber, Deliveroo, Bolt, Wolt, Free Now, Delivery Hero
and Glovo since 1 January 2021, invoking Open Government Act (Wet
open overheid; Woo).
The information you requested concerned the following:
‘How many meetings have employees of the Permanent
Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European
Union had with representatives of Uber, Deliveroo, Bolt, Wolt, Free
Now, Delivery Hero and Glovo since 1st January 2021?
I would like to request a list of these meetings including who was
present at the meeting, the names of the organisations and lobbyists
present, the date of the meeting, and the subject matters discussed.’
The decision was postponed by two weeks on 13 September 2021.
Statutory framework
Your application falls within the scope of the Open Government Act.
Decision
In response to your application, one document has been created, namely
a list of meetings of the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands to the European Union with stakeholders. This list
encompasses meetings in the period from the 1st of January until the date
of your request, 17 August 2022. I have decided to grant your application
and to disclose this document.
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Despite the fact that the Open Government Act does not provide for any
obligation to produce information that is not already contained in existing
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documents, regardless of the degree of effort that this would involve, I
have decided to create a document in order to be able to substantively
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reply to you application and in that way serve the public interest by
disclosure of the requested information.1
With regard to this document, it is relevant to mention that no distinction
is made between who took the initiative for the meeting; the Permanent
Representation in principle receives every stakeholder.
In the document you will find:
- the date of a meeting,
- the name of the stakeholder,
- the topic discussed at the meeting and
- the abbreviation of the department of the Permanent
Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European
Union that is responsible for the topic discussed.
In the document you will not find the names of the persons who were
present at the meetings. I do not disclose this information in respect of
personal privacy, on the ground of section 5.1, subsection 2, opening
words and (e) of the Open Government Act.
Manner of disclosure
The document is digitally enclosed with this decision.
Publication
The disclosed document will be published on
www.rijksoverheid.nl, so that
the document can be accessed by everyone.
Yours sincerely,
For the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
The deputy permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
to the European Union
[This letter was processed digitally and is therefore not signed.]
Michael Stibbe
1 See the judgment of the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (ABRvS) of 5 June 2013, no. 201204362/1/A3.
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Within six weeks after this decision is sent, a notice of objection may be
lodged. The notice of objection must be signed and dated and include the
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name and address of the person submitting it, a description of the
decision against which the objection is being lodged and the grounds on
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which it is based. The notice of objection should be addressed to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Legal Affairs Department, Postbus 20061, 2500
EB The Hague, The Netherlands.
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