Dear Sir, Thank you for your e-mail dated 19 July 2019. We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on the same day under reference number GestDem 2019/4213. 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 9 August 2019. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course. You have lodged your application via the Fragdenstaat.de 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 Fragdenstaat.de 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 (e.g. your private postal address). 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 Fragdenstaat.de website. If you do not wish your correspondence with the European Commission to be published on the Fragdenstaat.de 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 faithfully, SANTE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS European Commission Health and Food Safety

Dear Mr. Fanta, We refer to your e-mail dated 19/07/2019 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered on the same date 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 09/08/2019. An extended time limit is needed as your application requires a thorough examination by all the Directorate-General’s Units. 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 02/09/2019. We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. Yours faithfully, SANTE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS [cid:image001.gif@01D3FF48.374A49E0] European Commission Health and Food Safety