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New Zealand
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Scott
By email:
[FYI request #14615 email]
Ref:
H202100691
Dear Scott
Response to your request for official information Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 4 February 2021 for:
“I am writing to request copies of all email communications between MoH and these two agencies:
1) Therapeutic Goods Administration
(domain: http://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=15517&d=gMyb4KPV5Pgws5XrVPkorBqwzybUmSWV
QptWX05TEw&u=http%3a%2f%2ftga%2egov%2eau%29
2) European Medicines Agency
(domain: http://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=15517&d=gMyb4KPV5Pgws5XrVPkorBqwzybUmSWV
Qp9RDBpQQQ&u=http%3a%2f%2fema%2eeuropa%2eeu%29”
Information relating to your request has been withheld under section 9(2)(ba)(i) of the Act. This is to
protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which any person has been or could
be compelled to provide under the authority of any enactment, where the making available of the
information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information, or information from the same
source, and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied. Furthermore,
as the release of such information would prejudice the future supply of information to Medsafe, it has also
been withheld under section 9(2)(b)(ii) as its release would likely unreasonably to prejudice the
commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information.
Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any decisions made
under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at
: [email address] or
by calling 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the Ministry
website at:
www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases/responses-official-information-act-
requests. Yours sincerely
Chris James
Group Manager
Medsafe
