Dear Mr Hoedeman,
 
Thank you for your e-mail of yesterday. We hereby acknowledge receipt of
your application for access to documents, which was registered today under
the above mentioned reference number. In accordance with Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and
Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working
days. The time limit will expire on 5 March 2020. In case this time limit
needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.
 
You have lodged your application via the AsktheEU.org website. Please note
that this is a private third-party website which has no link with any
institution of the European Union. Therefore, the European Commission
cannot be held accountable for any technical issues or problems linked to
the use of this system. Please note that the private third party running
the AsktheEU.org website is responsible and accountable for the processing
of your personal data via that website, and not the European Commission.
For further information on your rights, please refer to the third party’s
privacy policy. We understand that the third party running that website
usually publishes the content of applicants’ correspondence with the
European Commission on that website. This includes the personal data that
you may have communicated to the European Commission. Similarly, the third
party publishes on that website any reply that the Commission will send to
the email address of the applicants generated by the AsktheEU.org website.
If you do not wish your correspondence with the European Commission to be
published on the AsktheEU.org website, you can provide us with an
alternative, private e-mail address for further correspondence. In that
case, the European Commission will send all future electronic
correspondence addressed to you only to that private address.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
 

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Dear Mr Hoedeman,
 
We refer to your access to documents request registered under the above
mentioned reference number.
 
Your application is currently being handled. However, due to the heavy
workload of a high number of requests, we will not be in a position to
complete the handling of your application within the time limit of 15
working days.
 
Therefore, we have to extend the time limit with 15 working days in
accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents. The new time limit expires on 26/03/2020.
 
We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
 
 

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Dear Mr Hoedeman,
 
There is indeed an unusual delay in the reply of your request. The
internal approval procedure has taken longer than usual.
 
I have reminded the person who needs to sign off, after that it is the
Director-General and her Office.
 
I will keep checking progress and send reminders to those who need to
sign.
 
Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused to you.
Yours sincerely,
Access to Documents Team
European Commission
DG TRADE
 

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Dear applicant,

Please find attached the reply to your request for access to documents, registered under reference GestDem 2020/0855

According to our standard operational procedure, the reply is usually also sent to you by registered post. Please note, however, that due to the extraordinary health and security measures currently in force during to the COVID-19 epidemics, which include the requirement for all Commission non-critical staff to telework, we are unfortunately not in a position to follow this procedure until further notice.

We would therefore appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present e-mail by replying to [DG TRADE request email].

Best regards,

Kind regards,

Trade-G3-SEC
Administrative assistants to the Unit – G3