Veterinary Laboratories Agency – Weybridge
New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, United Kingdom
Telephone +44 (0)1932 341111 Facsimile +44 (0)1932 347046
Web site http://www.vla.gov.uk
Our Ref: ATI 067/2011/02
(by email)
4 March 2011
Dear Mr Carroll
Request for information on Rattlechain Lagoon
Thank you for your request for copies of all email correspondence between
VLA and Rhodia on the subject of Rattlechain Lagoon which we received on 8
February 2011. Your request has been considered under the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs).
I enclose a copy of the information you requested. It is in the form of a series
of emails and attachments. The documents have been numbered to show
their chronology and relationship to each other. The documents are listed in
annex A.
We have decided to withhold some of the information you have requested
under regulations 12 (3) and 13 of the EIRs as the information constitutes
third party personal data. The information relates to names and contact details
included in the emails and documents. It is considered unfair to release the
information by reason of prejudice to the freedoms of the data subjects, i.e.
the individuals concerned. The regulations provide that personal data relating
to third parties is exempt information if disclosure would breach the Data
Protection Act 1998 (DPA). We consider that disclosure of this information is
likely to breach the first data protection principle in Schedule 1 of the Data
Protection Act 1998, which relates to the fair and lawful processing of
personal data.
Dr Tom Dutton the HSE Director at Rhodia UK Ltd is content for his name and
contact details to be released in relation to this request.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. I also attach
annex B giving information about copyright provisions and contact details
should you be unhappy with the service you have received.
Yours sincerely
Heather Hulse
VLA Librarian and Records Manager
VLA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Annex A – index of documents
1 Rattlechain
report
1-1
P4 test letter 230909
1-2 0071-0783
2 Rattlechain
letter
2-1
Rattlechain Dec 09 letter
3
P4 test Dec_09
3-1 0071-0785
4 Rattlechain_April
2010
4-1
Report on trial installation of Geofabrics –V2
5
Coot P4 Analysis
6 P4
duck_coot_June09
6-1 0071-0786
7
Tissues to be collected
8
Tissues to be collected 1
9
Rhodia duck samples 17112010
Annex B
Copyright
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any
non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any
other re-use, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the
copyright holder. Most documents supplied by Defra will have been produced by
government officials and will be Crown Copyright. You can find details on the
arrangements for re-using Crown copyright on OPSI (Office of Public Sector
Information) at: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/index.htm
Information you receive which is not subject to Crown Copyright continues to be
protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information
originated. You must ensure that you gain their permission before reproducing any
third party (non Crown Copyright) information.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with the result of your request for information you may request an
internal review within two calendar months of the date of this letter.
If you wish to request an internal review, please contact: The VLA Librarian, VLA,
New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 3NB who will arrange for an internal review of
your case.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Please note that
generally the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have
first exhausted VLA’s own complaints procedure. The Information Commissioner can
be contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF