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John Luke
January
Dear John
Re: Official Information Act Request: EECA Board Minutes and Meeting Dates
Thank you for your request via FYI.org.nz on Wednesday November
, in which you requested
information under the Official Information Act
. You requested:
To ensure public transparency, may I kindly request full board meeting minutes from st Jan
to st
Nov
. Also, I would encourage the board to consider upload these meeting minutes regularly to your
website for all New Zealander to view.
May I also kindly understand if the board has confirm it's meeting date for the
, if so, please supply
your board meeting date for
.
Please refer to Appendix A for an overview of the first part of your request, regarding the meeting minutes.
Please refer to Appendix B for the second part of your request, regarding the Board meeting dates for
.
Note that some information is being withheld pursuant to the following sections of the Act:
( )(a) - to protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of deceased natural persons.
( )(b)(ii) - to protect information where making available of the information would be likely
unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or is subject to the
information.
( )(f)(iv) - to maintain the current constitutional conventions protecting the confidentiality of
advice tendered by Ministers and officials.
( )(g)(i) – to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank
expression of opinions.
( )(h) – to maintain legal professional privilege.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information
about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone
.
Wellington Level 8 ∙ 44 The Terrace ∙ PO Box 388 ∙ Wellington 6140 ∙ New Zealand ∙ P +64 4 470 2200
Auckland Level 10 ∙ AIG Building ∙ 41 Shortland Street ∙ Auckland 1141 ∙ New Zealand
www.eeca.govt.nz ∙ 0800 358 676
Please note that it is our policy to proactively release our responses to official information requests where
possible. Our response to your request will be published shortly at https://www.eeca.govt.nz/about/news-
and-corporate/official-information/ with your personal information removed.
Yours sincerely
Dr Marcos Pelenur
EECA Chief Executive
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Appendix A
The below table gives an overview of the content in scope. The documents referenced in this table are
provided as attachments.
Item #
Meeting Date
Decision
January
Release in full.
March
Release in full.
March
Release in full.
April
Release in part:
-
( )(b)(ii)
May
Release in part:
-
( )(a)
-
( )(b)(ii)
June
Release in full.
July
Release in full.
August
Release in part:
-
( )(b)(ii)
September
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
October
Release in full.
December
Release in part:
-
( )(b)(ii)
January
Release in full.
February
Release in full.
March
Release in full.
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March
Release in part:
-
( )(a)
April
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
May
Release in part:
-
( )(b)(ii)
June
Release in full.
June
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
July
Release in full.
August
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
September
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
October
Release in full.
December
Release in part:
-
( )(b)(ii)
January
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
February
Release in full.
March
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
April
Release in full.
4
May
Release in part:
-
( )(g)(i)
June
Release in full.
July
Release in full.
August
Release in part:
-
( )(f)(iv)
-
( )(h)
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Appendix B
EECA’s Board are scheduled to meet on the following dates in
(note these dates may change):
Tuesday January
Tuesday February
Tuesday March
Tuesday April
Tuesday May
Tuesday June
Tuesday July
Tuesday August
Tuesday September
Wednesday October
Tuesday December
(to cover November and December)
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