The TAP Inquiry Panel this Wednesday found it “manifestly impracticable” to extend by another 35 days the deadline requested by the airline to send documentation, allowing an additional 10 days to be granted only in exceptional and duly justified cases.
At the meeting of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on TAP, one of the issues discussed was the airline’s request to the Assembly of the Republic for an additional 35 days to send information, given that the statutory 10-day deadline had expired. “clearly not enough.”
The chairman of the commission, the socialist Jorge Seguro Sánchez, proposed to the deputies a resolution that denied this request, a text that was approved by a vote for all parties except for the vote against Chega, and now this answer is sent to TAP.
According to the approved text, “a request for an extension of another 35 days”, in addition to the 10 days granted, “proves manifestly unworkable and unreasonable in each case and in relation to the document”, not least because the deadline set for the deadline activities of the Commission of Inquiry is 90 days.
Among other meetings, the commission of inquiry decided “to allow an additional 10 days, in addition to the 10 days provided by law, to comply with the request for the preparation of documents, provided that this rationale is accepted in each case.” “by the President.
“TAP must send the requested documents as they are collected so as not to jeopardize the work of the commission and the normal functioning,” the document that will be sent to the airline also says.
The MPs also responded to TAP that “concerns expressed by this company regarding privileged or confidential commercial information, trade secrets, or association with information with personal data are properly protected”, specifying that the company should “only send the document in the proper manner.” classified according to the information it contains.
“The commission of inquiry will be responsible for taking the necessary and appropriate measures to ensure the label assigned to the document,” he added.
It is also recalled that commissions of inquiry “use the investigative powers of the judiciary”.
TAP asked for another 35 days to send the requested information to the Commission of Inquiry, given that 10 days is a “manifestly insufficient” period, according to a request that Lusa had access to on Tuesday.
“The large number of documents covered by this request involves the search, review and collection of thousands of documents and records, which in many cases will have to be read one by one,” began with TAP in a document addressed to the president from a parliamentary commission of inquiry to political oversight of the leadership of TAP Jorge Seguro Sánchez, to whom Lusa had access.
The airline says it has made 111 requests, “many of which” are collections of “hundreds” or even “thousands” of documents from different areas and require the airline to verify that they contain sensitive information.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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