Reality Checks: Minutes and Participants Lists
Directorate General
Dear sir or madam.
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:
- minutes from the Commission's new targeted consultation praxis, the "Reality Checks", organised by the Directorate General.
- participants lists from the same "Reality Checks".
Yours faithfully,
Kenneth Haar
Overgaden oven Vandet 12
1415 Copenhagen K
Denmark
To DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture,
This is to draw your attention to the message I sent to you on 25 November, an access-to-documents request.
It is copied in below.
Yours faithfully,
Kenneth Haar
Directorate General
Dear sir or madam.
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:
- minutes from the Commission's new targeted consultation praxis, the "Reality Checks", organised by the Directorate General.
- participants lists from the same "Reality Checks".
Yours faithfully,
Kenneth Haar
Overgaden oven Vandet 12
1415 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 05/12/2025 and registered on 16/12/2025 under the case number
2025/6622.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 16/01/2026. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture - Access to
Documents
European Commission
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Dear Mr Haar,
Your e-mails below went to our functional mailbox junk mail, that's why we
haven't reacted sooner.
Today we have registered them in our access to documents system EASE:
[2]https://www.ec.europa.eu/transparency/do...
You will receive our reply via this system related to your access to
documents request EASE 2025/6622 .
Regards
EAC Access to Documents Team
Dear Sir,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 16/12/2025 under case number EASE 2025/6622.
We are not able to identify any document based on the description given in
your request.
In line with Article 6(2) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding
public access to documents, we invite you to send us more detailed
information on the documents you request, such as references, dates or
periods during which the documents would have been drawn up, persons or
bodies who drafted the documents etc.
The 15 working days to reply to your request will start running only when
you reply to this message. If you do not reply within 7 working days, we
will close this case in line with our detailed rules for the application
of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
Kind regards,
DG EAC Access to Documents team
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To DG EAC
re: transparency case number EASE 2025/6622
Dear sir or madam.
In a letter dated 22 December you have asked me for more information regarding Reality Checks - the type of consultation with selected stakeholders that I have inquired about.
Reality Checks is a new form of targeted consultations, presented in the Competitiveness Compass as well as the communication on simplification, and further described in an operational guidance.
Currently, the Reality Checks are exempt from rules on proactive transparency, which means that in some cases, the public has no way of knowing that a specific Reality Check has taken place.
For that reaon, I cannot give you dates on Reality Checks organised in your remit. Instead I hope you will investigate what Reality Checks your DG has organised, if any, and respond to my request accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Kenneth Haar
Hello,
Please find attached a message concerning your request for access to
Commission documents registered under the above case number 2025/6622.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message by return email.
Kind regards,
DG EAC Access to Documents Team