Guidance to IPCC Lead Authors

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Dear Mr Palmer,

Request for information on Guidance to IPCC Lead Authors

In Appendix E (page 4 para 4) to your letter of 23 November 2010 (FOI_10-112; EIR_10-14) your wrote:

“Additionally, recent guidance given to IPCC lead authors has clearly indicated that communication between lead authors is to remain confidential, and that emails and preliminary versions of work are not made public, cited, quoted nor distributed.”

Please send me a copy of this guidance.

I note that your Timothy Osborn is a lead author on the ongoing IPCC Fifth Assessment Report AR5 process and I presume recently attended the first Lead Author Meeting in China from 8 to 11 of this month.

Please send me copies of all the documents he received in preparation for and resulting from that meeting, pertaining to the IPCC and the Assessment process. I am not interested in domestic correspondence concerning travel and accommodation, although I do consider any reimbursements arrangements relevant.

Please note that this request is not intended as a “code of practice” complaint on your (FOI_10-112; EIR_10-14) response. I greatly appreciated your obvious efforts on that request and while it is possible, after I have studied your responses, that I may need to ask for a reconsideration of some aspects within the 60 days you mention, I believe it is better that you wait for a considered reply from me. That said, I am very pleased with some parts of your reply and thank you.

Yours sincerely

David Holland

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Dear Mr. Holland,

Please find attached a letter acknowledging your request received today, 26 November 2010. The letter also contains further information regarding the handling of this request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Someone will be in contact with you further in due course.

Yours sincerely,
Jane Baker

On behalf of Dave Palmer

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Mr. Holland,

Attached please find further information on the processing of your request
of 26 November 2010. Should you have any questions, please do not
hesitate to contact me.

Your sincerely, Dave Palmer

____________________________
David Palmer
Information Policy & Compliance Manager
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England
NR4 7TJ

Information Services
Tel: +44 (0)1603 593523
Fax: +44 (0)1603 591010

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Mr. Holland

Attached please find a response to your request received by us on 26
November 2010. Please note that there are four (4) .zip files attached to
this email that comprise part of our response.
However, due to the extent of the material released and email transmission
size restrictions, only two (2) of the .zip files are attached to this
message. The remaining two (2) .zip files will be sent shortly under
separate cover. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to
contact me.

Yours sincerely, Dave Palmer

____________________________
David Palmer
Information Policy & Compliance Manager
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England
NR4 7TJ

Information Services
Tel: +44 (0)1603 593523
Fax: +44 (0)1603 591010

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    Appendix C Meeting materials and resources booklet.zip

    5.7M Download

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    Appendix D Memory stick.zip

    557K Download

Mr. Holland,
As per my recent email of today's date, here is the second instalment of
our response to your request of 26 November 2010. Attached are Appendices
C and D to our response letter.
If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely, Dave Palmer

____________________________
David Palmer
Information Policy & Compliance Manager
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England
NR4 7TJ

Information Services
Tel: +44 (0)1603 593523
Fax: +44 (0)1603 591010

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Mr. Holland,

Further to my letter and attachments of 21 January 2011, I attach a letter
clarifying and correcting certain points within that letter. If you have
any further questions, do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely, Dave Palmer

____________________________

David Palmer

Information Policy & Compliance Manager

University of East Anglia

Norwich, England

NR4 7TJ

Information Services

Tel: +44 (0)1603 593523

Fax: +44 (0)1603 591010