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Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/1353 - Ares(2022)1821291 ( https://webgate.ec.testa.eu/Ares/documentInfo/documentInfoDetailsExt.do?documentId=080166e5e98c8600 ) (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares) Dear Ms Deleja-Hotko, We refer to your e-mail of 05 March 2022 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered with DG Research and Innovation (DG R&I) on 07 March 2022 under the above mentioned reference number. Your request refers to the company named THALES. According to it, you would like to have access to: “a) Correspondence - including, but not limited to, letters, e-mails, and any attachments b) Documents – including, but not limited to, evaluations, descriptions, briefing, notes, reports, analysis, presentations, list of participants concerning meetings with the representatives of the **company Thales** since 2017.” Please note that there are over one hundred companies that contain the name THALES, being subsidiaries of the company THALES, with headquarters in Tour Carpe Diem, 31 Place des Corolles, Paris, France. We therefore invite you, in accordance with Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to documents, to specify whether you are interested exclusively in this company’s relation to the DG R&I, or if you are interested in correspondence and documents concluded with any subsidiary of this company. If you need assistance in clarifying or specifying your application, you can contact us by email to: <<E-Mail-Adresse>> ( mailto:<<E-Mail-Adresse>> ). In accordance with the third paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed rules for the application of  Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the deadline of 15 working days for handling your application will start running when we receive the requested clarifications. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Yours faithfully, DG R&I ( )**** ( )**Access to documents team** **********European Commission** ** ** **                     ** ** **

Dear Ms Deleja-Hotko, We send you this message again, this time not through our registration system, as we are afraid you did not receive it because you did not provide any answer. Could you please let us know to which entity THALES are you referring to in your request as per the email below? Thank you in advance. Kind regards,

Dear Ms DELEJA-HOTKO, We refer to your requests for access to documents, registered on 07/03/2022 and 09/03/2022 under the reference numbers GESTDEM 2022/1399, 2022/1385 and 1349/2022. Your application is currently being handled however we are not able to complete the handling of your application within the time limit of 15 working days. 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 21/04/2022 for GESTDEM 2022/1349; on 25/04/2022 for GESTDEM 2022/1399 and 2022/1385. We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. Best regards,

GestDem 2022-1353 - Ares(2022)2244325 ( https://webgate.ec.testa.eu/Ares/documentInfo/documentInfoDetailsExt.do?documentId=080166e5ea398c42 ) (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares) Dear Ms Vera Deleja-Hotko, We refer to your e-mail of 05 March 2022 in which you make a request for access to documents, registered under reference number GESTDEM 2022/1353. 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 today, 28 March 2022. An extended time limit is needed as different Services had to be consulted. 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 21 April 2022 and we are doing our best to have a reply sent to you as soon as possible. We apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. Yours sincerely,

Holding reply - Your application for access to documents GestDem 2022/1352 - Ares(2022)2265387 ( https://webgate.ec.testa.eu/Ares/documentInfo/documentInfoDetailsExt.do?documentId=080166e5ea3e7aa7 ) (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares) Dear Madam, We refer to your request for access to documents, registered under the abovementioned 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 today. An extended time limit is needed as your application concerns a large number of documents, held by different services, which must be consulted. 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 21 April 2022. We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. Yours sincerely,

Dear Ms Deleja, We refer to your e-mail of 05 March 2022, in which you make a request for access to documents, registered on the 07 of March 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 expired on 28 March 2022. An extended time limit is needed as the application concerns documents held by different Services, which must be consulted. 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 21 April 2022. We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. Yours faithfully, [cid:image001.png@01D03ECB.9741CEE0] European Commission DG Energy DG ENERGY – Access to documents team Email: <<E-Mail-Adresse>><mailto:<<E-Mail-Adresse>>>

Your applications for access to documents GestDem 2022/1352, GestDem 2022/1359 and GestDem 2022/1391 - Ares(2022)2521974 ( https://webgate.ec.testa.eu/Ares/docu... ) (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares) Dear Ms Deleja-Hotko, We refer to your e-mails of 5 March 2022 wherein you make three requests for access to documents pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (‘Regulation 1049/2001’), registered under the abovementioned reference numbers. By your application under the reference number *GestDem** 2022/1352*, you are requesting: *- Correspondence - including, but not limited to, letters, e-mails, and any attachments- Documents – including, but not limited to, evaluations, descriptions, briefing, notes, reports, analysis, presentations, list of participants* *concerning meetings with the representatives of the company Thales since 2017.* By your application under the reference number *GestDem** 2022/1359*, you are requesting: *- Correspondence - including, but not limited to, letters, e-mails, and any attachments- Documents – including, but not limited to, evaluations, descriptions, briefing, notes, reports, analysis, presentations, list of participants* *concerning meetings with representatives of the company Indra since 2017.* By your application under the reference number *GestDem** 2022/1391*, you are requesting: *- Correspondence - including, but not limited to, letters, e-mails, and any attachments- Documents – including, but not limited to, evaluations, descriptions, briefing, notes, reports, analysis, presentations, list of participants* *concerning meetings with representatives of the company Leonardo since 2017. * The circumstances of the introduction of your requests, their timing, their scope, as well as their wording give us the impression that a very wide-scoped request is split in parts and introduced as seemingly separate requests. In this respect, the General Court confirmed in its Ryanair judgment (Judgment of the General Court of 10 December 2010, Ryanair v Commission, T- 494/08,EU:T:2010:511,paragraph 34) that Article 6(3) may not be evaded by splitting an application into several, seemingly separate, parts. As stated by the EU Courts, the European Commission needs to respect the principle of proportionality and ensure that the interest of the applicant for access is balanced against the workload resulting from the processing of the application for access in order to safeguard the interests of good administration. Similarly to the above-mentioned cases underlying the case-law of the EU Courts on wide-scoped requests, DG CONNECT cannot, in this case, accept an artificial splitting of a wide-scoped request into simultaneous, seemingly separate individual applications, as this would result in a circumvention of Article 6(3) of Regulation 1049/2001, and the need for DG CONNECT to ensure that to balance the interest in public access to the documents against the burden of work so caused, in order to safeguard the interests of good administration(Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 13 April 2005, Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Commission, T-2/03, EU:T:2005:125, paragraph 102). Your applications concern a very large number of documents. Please note that at this stage, according to our estimate more than 565 documents would fall within the scope of the requests, in particular: -approximately 465 documents would fall within the scope of the request *GestDem** 2022/1352* -approximately 25 documents would fall within the scope of the request *GestDem** 2022/1359* -approximately 75 documents would fall within the scope of the request *GestDem** 2022/1391*. Due to the scope of your wide scoped request, its handling would involve the entire DG CONNECT, the former and current Commissioners and their Cabinets and would entail the following steps: -          multiple searches for the identification of the documents which may fall within the scope of the request and consultations within DG CONNECT, with the Cabinet and the archives service; -          retrieval, individual analysis of the documents  and establishment of a complete list of the documents falling under the scope of your request; -          scanning of the documents which are not in pdf format; -          preliminary individual assessment of the content of the documents in light of the exceptions contained in Article 4 of Regulation 1049/2001; -          assessment of the further procedural steps to undertake, for example whether third party consultations should be made; -          for many of the documents, third party consultations under Article 4(4) and/or 4(5) of Regulation 1049/2001; -          final assessment of the documents in light of the comments received; -          redaction of those parts of the documents to which one or several exceptions apply; -          preparation and finalisation of the reply for the request, and -          preparation of the reply and the documents for dispatch. It follows from the above that the work needed for the treatment of your request cannot expected to be completed within the normal time limits set out in Article 7 of Regulation 1049/2001. Article 6(3) of the Regulation 1049/2001 provides that, in the event of an application relating to a very long or a very large number of documents, the institution concerned may confer with the applicant informally with a view to finding a fair solution. In accordance with the case law of the Union Courts, the proposal for a fair solution aims to balance the interest of the applicant against the workload resulting from the processing of the application in order to safeguard the interests of good administration (Judgments of 6 December 2001, Council v Hautala, Case C 353/99 P, EU:C:2001: 661, para. 30, and of 2 October 2014, Strack v Commission, Case C 127/13 P, EU:C:2014:2250, para.27). Such solution can only concern the content or the number of documents applied for, not the deadline for replying (Judgment of the Court of Justice of 2 October 2014 in case C- 127/13, Guido Strack v Commission, paragraphs 26-28). 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. Taking this into account and based on the above-mentioned provision, we would kindly ask you to specify the objective of your request, your specific interest in the requested documents and whether you could narrow down the scope of your request, so as to reduce it to a more manageable amount of documents. In order to help you narrow down the scope of your request please note that we have identified **policy related meetings** and **project related meetings** with representatives of the abovementioned entities (including their subsidiaries). With regard to the **policy related meetings** at this stage we have identified **approximately 35 documents** falling within the following main categories of documents: - Briefings -Minutes/Back to Office (BTO) Reports -Email exchanges/ Letters, including correspondence relating to meetings/conferences invitations, meeting arrangements and agendas Please note that some of the email exchanges may contain attachments which need to be assessed individually. For your convenience, please find below the meetings between the DG CONNECT Director-General, the Commissioners for DG CONNECT/ members of their Cabinet and the representatives of the three companies, which were retrieved from the Transparency Register ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/about-europ... ) and which we consider relevant to your requests: *GestDem** 2022/1352*: -          Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director General of Communications, Networks, Content and Technology -CONNECT) on 26 May 2020 in Brussels, with the subject ‘Telesat LEO constellation project’. *GestDem** 2022/1359*:** -          Videoconference with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member of Thierry Breton) on 7 May 2021 with the subject ‘Cloud & Data Alliance – CEO Roundtable’. -          Videoconference with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member of Thierry Breton) and Thierry Breton (Commissioner) on 16 December 2020 with the subject  ‘Roundtable - Cloud Alliance’. *GestDem** 2022/1391*: -          Videoconference with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member of Thierry Breton), Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and Valere Moutarlier (Cabinet member of Thierry Breton) on 14 December 2021 with the subject  ‘EU Data strategy, European Cloud Alliance’. With regard to **project related exchanges** please note the following: The abovementioned entities have participated in various projects as project Coordinator or partners/ consortium members. At this stage the projects identified cover a range of areas and have been managed by the following DG CONNECT Directorates: Directorate A (Digital Industry) Directorate C (Digital Excellence and Science infrastructure) Directorate H (Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity) At this stage we have identified approximately 530 project related documents, falling within the following main categories: - E-Mails/ Letters, including correspondence relating to meeting invitations, arrangements, agendas - Deliverables - Review reports Please note that some of the email exchanges may contain attachments which need to be assessed individually. Taking into account the other ‘access to documents’ requests being handled within DG CONNECT at the same time, including the other access to documents request that you have submitted (GestDem 2022/1607), the global workload of the concerned staff during the same period, the human resources available and the need to safeguard good administration, we consider that in the remaining timeframe we would be able to deal with in total a maximum of 15 documents  falling within your combined wide scoped request. For the selection of the documents to be dealt with, it would be helpful if you could indicate whether your preference is related to policy or to project related documents and to be as specific as possible taking into account the information we have provided above. In order to enable us to respect the time limits of Regulation 1049/2001, we would ask you for a swift response to our proposal for a fair solution. Please respond by email within 3 working days, i.e. by Thursday, 7 April 2022 cob at the latest. Please send your response by email to the following address: <<E-Mail-Adresse>> ( mailto:<<E-Mail-Adresse>> ) In the absence of a reply within the abovementioned deadline, 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 date of registration of your application. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. The DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team ( ) **European Commission** DG Connect – ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS BU25 – Avenue de Beaulieu 25 B-1160 Brussels/Belgium

Dear Madam, Please find attached a letter for your attention. Kind regards,

Your application for access to documents RefGestDem 2022/1352 - Ares(2022)3131928 ( https://webgate.ec.testa.eu/Ares/documentInfo/documentInfoDetailsExt.do?documentId=080166e5eb401e7a ) (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares) Dear Madam, We refer to your request for access to documents, registered under the abovementioned reference number. Unfortunately, we are not able to send the reply to your application within the given time limit, which expires today. You will receive the answer to your application as soon as possible. We apologize for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. Yours faithfully, DG CONNECT Access to Documents Team ( ) **European Commission** DG Connect – ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS BU25 – Avenue de Beaulieu 25 B-1160 Brussels/Belgium

GestDem 2022-1353 - Ares(2022)3141037 ( https://webgate.ec.testa.eu/Ares/documentInfo/documentInfoDetailsExt.do?documentId=080166e5eb4426f1 ) (Please use this link only if you are an Ares user – Svp, utilisez ce lien exclusivement si vous êtes un(e) utilisateur d’Ares) Dear Ms Deleja-Hotko Vera, We refer to your e-mail received on 07 March 2022, in which you make a request for access to documents, registered under the reference number 1353. We could not complete the handling of your application within the extended time limit of 30 working days, which expires today, 21 April 2022. However, we are doing our best to provide you with a reply as soon as possible. Please accept our sincerest apologies for this delay and for any inconvenience this may cause. Yours sincerely,

Dear Ms VELEJA-HOTKO Vera, Please find attached the reply to your access to documents request in subject. According to the standard operational procedure, the reply should also be sent to you by registered post. However, due to the extraordinary health and security measures currently in force, we are not, unfortunately, in a position to follow this procedure until further notice. Therefore, we would appreciate if you could confirm receipt of the present email by replying to <<E-Mail-Adresse>>. Thank you very much in advance, RTD Access to documents European Commission DG Research and Innovation Common Legal Support Service ORBN 05 1049 Brussels/Belgium <<E-Mail-Adresse>>

Dear Ms VELEJA-HOTKO Vera, We are sending you this message in case you did not receive it through our technical systems. We have already your confirmation regarding receiving the access to documents request no 2022-0960. Please confirm us receiving this reply together with the reply to the request 2022-1389. Thank you in advance. Kind regards,

Dear Ms Deleja-Hotko, In response to your requests of access to documents 2022/1350, 2022/1363 and 2022/1387. Please find attached the reply and the documents. With kind regards,

By email only Dear Ms Deleja-Hotko, Please find attached document Ares(2022)5492442 regarding "Your applications for access to documents - GestDem 2022/1352, GestDem 2022/1359 and GestDem 2022/1391" sent by Mr Roberto Viola, General Director of DG CONNECT on 01/08/2022. Best regards,

Dear Ms. Deleja-Hotko, Unfortunately we have not received the confirmation of receipt of our email below. Therefore, could you please confirm their receipt by replying to <<E-Mail-Adresse>>? According to the standard operational procedure, the reply should also be sent to you by registered post. However, due to the working arrangements following the COVID19 pandemic, we are, unfortunately, not in a position to follow this procedure until further notice since a significant part of our personnel continue to work remotely. Thank you very much in advance. Best regards,