[Ares(2019)4638403 - Your application for access to documents – Ref GestDem No. 2019/3924, 2019/3926](
https://webgate.ec.testa.eu/Ares/ext/documentInfoDetails.do?documentId=080166e5c5df4ff8)
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Sent by ve_home.access.to.documents (HOME) <
<Name und E-Mail-Adresse>>. All responses have to be sent to this email address.
Envoyé par ve_home.access.to.documents (HOME) <
<Name und E-Mail-Adresse>>. Toutes les réponses doivent être effectuées à cette adresse électronique.
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Dear Mr. Fanta,
We refer to your e-mails dated 09/07/2019 in which you make requests for access to documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned reference numbers.
Your requests concern:
*- a list of lobby meetings the Directorate-General held with Facebook and Google or its intermediaries. The list should include: date, individuals attending and organisational affiliation, the issues discussed.*
*- Minutes and other reports of these meetings*
*- All correspondence including attachments (i.e. any emails, correspondence or telephone call notes) between the DG concerned (including the Commissioner and the Cabinet) and Facebook, Google or any intermediaries representing their interests.*
*- All documents prepared for the meetings and exchanged in the course of the meetings between both parties.*
The scope of your application appears to be large and could include a large number of documents, which need to be assessed individually as there is not a specific timeframe. Such a detailed analysis cannot be carried out within the normal time limits set out in Article 7 of Regulation 1049/2001.
The handling of your request involves the assessment of documents originating from third parties. The analysis of this/these documents, together with the need to consult the third parties concerned in accordance with Article 4(4) and 4(5) of Regulation 1049/2001, cannot be expected to be completed within the normal time limits set out in Article 7 of Regulation 1049/2001.
However, the Regulation also provides for a possibility to confer with applicants in order to find a fair solution when an application relates to a very long document or concerns a very large number of documents. Article 6(3) provides that* *
In accordance with the case law of the EU Courts, such a solution can only concern the content or the number of documents applied for, not the deadline for replying.[[1]](#_ftn1) This means that the scope of the request must be reduced in a way that would enable its treatment within the extended deadline of 15 + 15 working days.
Based on the above-mentioned provision, we would kindly ask you to specify the objective of your request and your specific interest in the documents requested , and whether you could narrow down the temporal scope of your wide-scoped request to the period of 1th of January 2018 to the date of your request, so as to reduce it to a more manageable amount of documents.
In order to help you to narrow down your request, please note that the following documents have been identified as falling under the scope of your request:
In order to enable us to respect the time-limits of Regulation 1049/2001, we would ask you for a swift reply to our invitation to propose a fair solution, within five working days at the latest by email to: [
<<E-Mail-Adresse>>](mailto:<<E-Mail-Adresse>>).
We apologize for writing in EN and would be thankful if you could answer to this letter as soon as possible. Please tell us if you request this email in DE.
In the absence of a reply within five working days, we will unilaterally restrict the scope of your application to those parts that can be dealt with within the extended deadline of 30 working days, counting from the registration of your application.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Yours sincerely,
