Request on DG Grow-Meeting June 2011
Dear Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting all documents - including but not limited to agendas, correspondances, minutes, (hand-written) notes, audio recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions, lines to take, e-mails, memos and presentations - related to the following request for access to documents: request number 2025/2633.
My postal address is:
Gache Juliette
c/o Bocode studios
20 rue Bouvier
FR-75011 Paris
Yours faithfully,
Gache Juliette
Dear Ms. Gache,
We have received your four requests for access to documents related to your previous access to documents requests i.e. 2025/2494, 2025/2596, 2025/2630 and 2025/2633.
In order to better fulfil your requests, we would like to ask you to provide us with some additional clarifications concerning the purpose of the requests or should consider them as a confirmatory decision ?
We remain available in case of questions.
Yours sincerely,
GROW ATD
Dear DG Grow,
Thank you for your answer. To clarify, this request is made solely in the interest of transparency, with the aim of understanding how the requests have been handled during the process. To the best of my knowledge, similar requests have been made in the past.
Yours faithfully,
Gache Juliette
Dear Ms Gache,
Thank you for the clarification.
All access to documents requests are handled as follows: we assess the scope of the request and distribute the requests to the competent units, that then retrieve the documents they have within the scope of your request. If no documents match the scope of the request, we still prepare a reply explaining that to the applicant.
After the document retrieval is done, we analyse each document in accordance with the exceptions of Article 4 of Regulation 1049/2001, and if one or more exceptions are applicable, the documents are redacted totally or partially. Usually, the vast majority of the documents tend to have at least redactions regarding personal data (article 4(1), b) of Regulation 1049/2001).
After all this process is done, we compile the documents and prepare a written reply that have to go through an internal procedure of revision of higher management and finally the signature of the Director or Director-General - depending on the cases.
Finally, the reply and the relevant documents are sent out to the applicant, who can still ask for a confirmatory request within 15 days in case he or she is not satisfied with the reply and justification of redactions.
You can also find some relevant information here under FAQs: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/docume...
Please let us know if this clarifies your questions, or if you'd still like us to register your requests.
Yours sincerely,
GROW ATD
Dear DG Grow,
Thank you for your precise answer. I would still like you to register my requests.
Yours sincerely,
Gache Juliette
Dear Ms Gache,
Thank you for your prompt reply, we suggest you contact directly [adresse e-mail] .
Kind regards and whishing you a lovely weekend,
GROW ATD
Dear DG Grow,
Could you please specify whom I should contact? There is no email attached to the link in your response.
Could you please also register my requests?
Yours sincerely,
Gache Juliette
Dear Ms Gache,
You should contact the Secretariat-General of the Commission at SG ACCES DOCUMENTS <[adresse e-mail]>
Kind regards,
GROW ATD
Dear DG Grow,
Could you explain why your department seems unable to register these requests?
The documents I am requesting seem certainly within your responsibility.
Yours sincerely,
Gache Juliette
Dear Ms Gache,
DG GROW has replied to your questions, in our view your new requests about your pervious requests do not fulfil the requirements of the access to documents as provided under the Regulation 1040/2001.
If you do not share our assessment you are entitled to ask the Secretariat-General of the Commission for the review of your case.
We will now discontinue our correspondence.
Kind regards,
GROW ATD
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 16/07/2025 and registered on 28/07/2025 under the case number
2025/3841.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 19/08/2025. 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 Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs - Access to Documents
European Commission
References
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1. https://ec.europa.eu/info/principles-and...
Dear Ms Gache,
We refer to your request for access to documents, registered on 20/07/2025
under the above mentioned reference number.
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 19/08/2025.
An extended time limit is needed as in order to retrieve the documents
requested, large files have to be examined.
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 09/09/2025.
We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause.
Yours sincerely
DG GROW – Access to documents team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and
SMEs
DG GROW/B1 – Planning and Simplification
