Contract 0562/2020 for access to the products and services of Janes Group UK Limited (Janes Military and Security Assessments, Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre and Data analytics) dated 27/08/2020 for an amount of €127,346.27. Please be informed that Frontex can grant you access to the requested document. Please find it herewith attached. However, please note that some limited parts of the document fall under exceptions under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/20011 and therefore had to be expunged as they contain: -     personal data, such as names of individuals and/or characteristic features which could lead to the identification of individuals. The disclosure would undermine the protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual, in particular in accordance with European Union legislation regarding the protection of personal data and therefore has to be precluded pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. -     information, whose disclosure would undermine the protection of commercial interests of legal persons, including intellectual property. In particular, these documents contain technical and economic information of the contractors, more specifically information on the details of the offer, including proposed prices. As no overriding public interest that is objective and general in nature and not indistinguishable from individual or private interests for the release of these documents is ascertainable in the present case, these documents cannot be released based on Article 4(2) first indent of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. Kindly be reminded that the copyright of the document/s rests with Frontex and making this/these work/s available to third parties in this or another form without prior authorisation of Frontex is 1 Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43). Frontex - European Border and Coast Guard Agency www.frontex.europa.eu | Pl. Europejski 6, 00-844 Warsaw, Poland | Tel. +48 22 205 95 00 | Fax +48 22 205 95 01

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