REACH revision at Regulatory Scrutiny Board
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all RSB meeting records, lobbying materials, and other documents prepared or received in the context of the upcoming scrutiny review of the impact assessment on the REACH revision. I understand that the Commission’s impact assessment is not due to reach the Regulatory Scrutiny Board until November 2022. Nonetheless I would like to specifically request the following:
a) The minutes / notes of proceedings of any ‘upstream’ meetings (including those held online) between the Regulatory Scrutiny Board and Commission officials on the REACH revision proposal;
b) A list of all meetings (including those held online) attended by members of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board with external stakeholders on the upcoming REACH revision plus agendas, minutes / notes of proceedings of these meetings;
c) All correspondence (including SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc, recorded voice messages, emails, letters, and attached documents) exchanged between Members of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board and external stakeholders on the upcoming REACH revision;
d) Further to GESTDEM 2022/1868, I would like to request a list of all meetings (including those held online) since 1 January 2022 between members of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board and any ‘stakeholders’. This list should include the name of the RSB representative attending, the names of the stakeholders, the date, and as much detail as possible about the topic.
I look forward to hearing from you; thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Vicky Cann
CEO
Rue d'Edimbourg 26
1050 Brx
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European Commission
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Dear Ms. Cann,
Please find enclosed an extension letter concerning your request for
access to documents registered under the above-mentioned reference number.
Kind regards,
Regulatory Scrutiny Board
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2022/5725.
Kind regards,
ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
Dear Ms. Cann,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2022/5725.
Kind regards,
Regulatory Scrutiny Board
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Thank you for the reply to 2022/5725 dated 21 November 2022.
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 'REACH revision at Regulatory Scrutiny Board' 2022/5725.
Thank you for the minute of the upstream meeting. I would like to appeal the redactions and receive a fuller version. In particular:
- I do not need to receive the names of the individual officials not in senior management, but I do wish to receive the full content of the minute.
- Your letter said: "Indeed, the minutes refer to an impact assessment that currently is still under preparation." But I note that the impact assessment has now been submitted to the Regulatory Scrutiny Board so must be in a complete state.
- I further note the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 4 September 2018 in Case C-57/16 P in which the Court held that documents drawn up in the context of an impact assessment procedure for a legislative proposal constitute legislative documents that should be made directly accessible to the public pursuant to Article 12(2) of Regulation No 1049/2001 before the proposal and that access should not be denied on request. I consider that this minute would be within scope of this ruling.
Therefore I very much hope to receive a full version of the minute (excluding junior officials' names) as soon as possible.
Elsewhere in your letter it said "They [the Regulatory Scrutiny Board] also have had no exchange of correspondence with external stakeholders on the same topic." I note that my request explained "correspondence" as "including SMS & any other type of messages processed through phone apps - eg., WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc, recorded voice messages, emails, letters, and attached documents". Please can you confirm that a full check of all these forms was conducted? If not, which ones have you excluded from your search and why? I note that in her 28 January 2022 decision, the European Ombudsman makes clear that the rules define documents as “any content whatever its medium (written on paper or stored in electronic form or as a sound, visual or audiovisual recording) concerning a matter relating to the policies, activities and decisions falling within the institution’s sphere of responsibility.”
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
Vicky Cann
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Yours faithfully,
Secretariat-General - Access to Documents
European Commission
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Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Thanks for resending your reply of 21 November. But please note that you have already acknowledged my confirmatory application on request 2022/5725 dated 25 November.
Yours faithfully,
Vicky Cann
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Dear Madam Vicky Cann,
Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision C(2023)
748 as adopted by the European Commission on 25.1.2023.
The formal notification of the decision under Article 297 TFEU is being
made only in electronic form.
Could you please confirm receipt of the attached document by return
e-mail?
Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
BEVIERE Chantal
European Commission
Secrétariat général de la Commission – SG - B-2
Procédures écrites, d’habilitation et de délégation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-295.77.42
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Dear Vicky Cann,
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Kind regards,
BEVIERE Chantal
European Commission
Secrétariat général de la Commission – SG - B-2
Procédures écrites, d’habilitation et de délégation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-295.77.42
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To: [FOI #11941 email]
Cc: WADHWANIA Nadia (SG) <[email address]>
Subject: C(2023) 748 - Corporate Europe Observatory
Dear Madam Vicky Cann,
Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision C(2023)
748 as adopted by the European Commission on 25.1.2023.
The formal notification of the decision under Article 297 TFEU is being
made only in electronic form.
Could you please confirm receipt of the attached document by return
e-mail?
Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
BEVIERE Chantal
European Commission
Secrétariat général de la Commission – SG - B-2
Procédures écrites, d’habilitation et de délégation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-295.77.42
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BEVIERE Chantal
European Commission
Secrétariat général de la Commission – SG - B-2
Procédures écrites, d’habilitation et de délégation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-295.77.42
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From: SG GREFFE CERTIFICATION <[email address]>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 8:05 AM
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Dear Vicky Cann,
Unless we are mistaken, and while checking our records, we have not
received your confirmation of receipt regarding the message below.
Could you please confirm having received the message and also of the
document enclosed?
Kind regards,
BEVIERE Chantal
European Commission
Secrétariat général de la Commission – SG - B-2
Procédures écrites, d’habilitation et de délégation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-295.77.42
[2][email address]
From: SG GREFFE CERTIFICATION <[3][email address]>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2023 12:35 PM
To: [4][FOI #11941 email]
Cc: WADHWANIA Nadia (SG) <[5][email address]>
Subject: C(2023) 748 - Corporate Europe Observatory
Dear Madam Vicky Cann,
Please find attached the electronic version of Commission Decision C(2023)
748 as adopted by the European Commission on 25.1.2023.
The formal notification of the decision under Article 297 TFEU is being
made only in electronic form.
Could you please confirm receipt of the attached document by return
e-mail?
Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
BEVIERE Chantal
European Commission
Secrétariat général de la Commission – SG - B-2
Procédures écrites, d’habilitation et de délégation
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
+32 2-295.77.42
[6][email address]
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Dear [email address],
Thank you. I can confirm receipt of C(2023) 748 final.
Yours sincerely,
Vicky Cann