Complaint 1018/2021/VS

Decision on the European Commission's failure to reply to correspondence concerning financial flexibility of co-financing rules for operational grants for NGOs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (case 1018/2021/VS)

Dear Mr X,

You submitted a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission concerning its failure to reply to the above issue, raised in a letter signed by a number of NGOs.

We informed the Commission of your complaint and asked it to send you a reply. Following our request, the Commission informed us that on 12 June 2020, it sent a reply to one of the NGOs that had signed the letter. Please find attached the Commission’s reply.

The case is therefore closed with the conclusion that it has been settled. Please note that this inquiry concerned exclusively the Commission´s failure to reply to correspondence. If you are dissatisfied with the substance of the reply, you can lodge a new complaint with the Ombudsman. There is no need to resubmit the documents already included in your file. A reference to the present complaint number will suffice.

Yours sincerely,

Tina Nilsson

Head of the Case-handling Unit

20/07/2021

 

Enclosure: European Commission’s reply of 12 June 2020