Article "The Copyright Directive: how the mob was told to save the dragon and slay the knight" on medium

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From: Mathias Schindler

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Dear Communication,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

All information related to the drafting, release and removal of the article "Article "The Copyright Directive: how the mob was told to save the dragon and slay the knight" on medium.com

Yours faithfully,

Mathias Schindler

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Dear Mr. Schindler,

 

Thank you for your request for access to documents.

Unfortunately you have not indicated your postal address that is required
for registering and handling your request in line with the procedural
requirements. Please send us your full postal address at your earliest
convenience. Pending your reply, we reserve the right to refuse the
registration of your request.

 

You may, of course, use directly the electronic form for entering your
request:

[1]http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/...

 

Best regards.

 

ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
[2]cid:image001.png@01D4C770.0F713910
European Commission
DG COMM

 

 

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From: Mathias Schindler

Dear Communication,

thank you for confirming the reception of my access to documents request. You are now required under Article 7 (2) sentence 1 and 2 of Regulation 1049/2001 to send me a confirmation of the registration of my request.

Nothing in the Regulation contains a requirement to send you my postal address. In fact, the postal address requirement is quite bogus since we are communicating via email and the asktheeu.org tool.

I am also referring you to the decision of the Ombudsman office in case 10/2018/AP and prior decisions: "the Commission’s practice, of requiring all persons asking for public access to documents to give their postal address, amounts to maladministration."

Since the Commission already has my postal address, your refusal to register my request is not founded in any legitimate concern but simply the outcome of a strategy to deny access to information. I am pretty sure that you understand that I cannot let this happen.

Yours faithfully,

Mathias Schindler

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