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Summary: A Case of Administrative Silence - No Response to Our Request Request sent to Registre du Commerce et des Societes (Click here) Outcome of request Administrative silence. Time taken to respond N/A (Deadline is 30 days) Reason for refusal No response received.   On 31 October 2013 Access Info tried to send a request to the Registre du Commerce et des Societes via email, but the “send an email” function was not working. We also tried to call the offices in Paris but they did not answer the phone. We therefore sent the request was by post on 12

Summary:  €75,000 Is "Cost-Price" for Access to the Company Register Request sent to Chamber of Commerce Outcome of request Initial Request: Information Refused. Administrative Appeal: No response - Administrative Silence Time taken to respond The initial request was not received by the Chamber of Commerce. Once it was re-sent the response arrived on the same day (Deadline is 14 calendar days). Reason for refusal Must pay for the information. (They are charging cost-price for the information.)   The initial request was sent by Access Info Europe to the Dutch Chamber of Commerce on 28 August 2013. The Dutch Government Information

Summary: Company Register Authority Appeals Pro-Transparency Ruling from Information Commissioner in Court Request sent to Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services (AJPES) (Click here) Outcome of request Request rejected by AJPES. We appealed to the Information Commissioner, who ruled that the database should be published for free. However, the AJPES has appealed this ruling before the Court. The case has been pending before the Administrative court since February 2014. Time taken to respond 2 working days (Deadline is 20 working days). Reason for refusal Incomplete request.   The initial request for a full

Summary: The Register Can Be Downloaded Online, But You Need a Danish Electronic ID Request sent to Central Company Register (Click here) Outcome of request The database can be downloaded online but you need a Danish electronic ID number. Time taken to respond 11 working days (deadline is 7 working days).   The request was sent on 4 November 2013 to the Central Company Register by Access Info and our partner, Christian Villum. The Central Register answered the next day, in Danish and including a link to the Danish company register. Access Info responded on 5 November 2013 asking if it

Summary: A Case of Administrative Silence - No Response to Our Request Request sent to Common register portal of the German Federal States (Click here) Outcome of request Administrative silence (Deadline for responding is 30 calendar days). Time taken to respond N/A Reason for refusal N/A   The request was sent on 31 October 2013 to the Common Register Portal of the German Federal States and the response was received on 29 November, which included an apology for the delayed answer, despite the fact that the deadline for responding to access to information requests in Germany is actually 30 calendar

Summary: You Must Pay €286,000 for the Company Register Database Request sent to Ministry of Justice Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 1 day. Reason for refusal Must pay for access. Another law overrides FOI law.   The request was sent on 4 November 2013 to the Ministry of Justice by Access Info and its partner, Mikk Salu. They replied the day after and asked us to provide more details about the information we were requesting, and we were informed that we could become a contractual user if we wanted to buy all the data in the

Summary: No Right to Request, No Right to Receive Request sent to Department of the Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver (Click here). Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 9 working days (no official deadline as there is no freedom of information law) Reason for refusal No access to information law.   On 28 August 2013, Access Info sent a request to the Department of the Register of Companies and Official Receiver of Cyprus. Cyprus doesn’t have a law on access to information that obliges it to respect citizens' right to know and to answer their requests

Summary: Younger Laws on Fees Prevail over Right to Information Request sent to State Register of Legal Entities (Click here). Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 3 days (deadline is 5 working days). Reason for refusal Must pay for access. Another law overrides FOI law.   The initial request, translated into Armenian, was sent to the State Register of Legal Entities on 5 August 2013 by our partner in Armenia, Marine Madatyan. On 9 August, a reply was received, which explained that the information requested could only be accessed upon payment of a fee, according to the

Summary: Information That Must Be Paid For Is Exempt Under the Freedom of Information Act Request sent to Companies House (Click here) Outcome of request Information refused. Time taken to respond 7 working days (Deadline is 20 working days) Reason for refusal No need to answer if info is already available.   On 17 February 2015, Access Info Europe requested access to the complete database of companies, as held by Companies House, using the online request platform “What do They Know?” The response came in on 26 February 2015, which stated that access to the database needed to be refused