Dear David, dear All,

Please be informed that the PO has approved the extension of WP2 by another two months as requested by Trilateral:

“Given your explanations, we can accept a delay of two months for to complete the WP2 (and for that we do not need to do a formal amendment). Please keep in mind that with this acceptance only the WP2 submission delay has been prolonged. All other / consequent deadlines for submissions or the project end date is not prolonged.”

You can read the entire correspondence in the Participant Portal, under “Process communications”.

Best,

Gábor

From: Kulitsán Gábor [mailto:kulitsan.gabor@naih.hu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 9:36 AM
To: 'David Barnard-Wills' <David.Barnard-Wills@trilateralresearch.com>; 'nagy.renata@naih.hu' <nagy.renata@naih.hu>
Cc: 'David Wright' <David.wright@trilateralresearch.com>
Subject: RE: STAR II extension request

Hi David,

I contacted the PO through the Participant Portal, but she has not replied so far. I’ll keep you posted on the subject matter.

Best,

Gábor

From: David Barnard-Wills [mailto:David.Barnard-Wills@trilateralresearch.com]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 1:30 PM
To: nagy.renata@naih.hu; Kulitsán Gábor <kulitsan.gabor@naih.hu>
Cc: David Wright <David.wright@trilateralresearch.com>
Subject: STAR II extension request

Dear Renata, Gábor,

My sincere apologies, but I'm afraid we need to put in a further extension request for WP2 of STAR II.

We can supply the text below to explain this to the project officer. I'm available if you need to discuss this further.

Would you be willing to pass this request on to the PO, please?

best wishes,

DBW

Trilateral is requesting a further extension to completion of WP2. TRI asks for this extension with great reluctance in view of the extension already given. However, events are conspiring against our completing the work package on time for the following reasons:

We have had an informal contact with the Irish Data Protection Commission about their sponsoring the workshop, which was agreed, for maximising impact. However, two written follow-up e-mails have yielded no confirmation. We suspect that the GDPR is impacting their resource flexibility. We continue to pursue the DPC. If that option proves fruitless, we are bringing together additional internal resources at TRI to provide a GDPR "clinic" for SMEs as part of the workshop which will increase participation, and provide valuable input into the WP2 research on the real needs of SMEs, but doing so will also take more time to organise.
We have had contact with various SME associations as foreseen in the DoA; however, they have not yielded much in the way of interview material and we are planning a new set of interviews with a cross-section of SMEs to compensate for our interests in the SME associations, supported by an additional survey instrument. We aim to complete our plan for interview alternatives by early March and to restart the interview process by mid-March, but we do not believe there is enough time to complete the interviews before the envisaged workshop. Hence, we, and our partners, need more time for the interviews.

For these reasons, we reluctantly request a delay of two months. From the long and successful collaborations in carrying out action grants for DG JUST, the Commission knows that we have rarely asked for an extension and do so only as we believe it is in the best interests of the project to produce excellent results with a two-month delay rather than patchy results according to the schedule. We will continue to provide our consortium partners with our interim findings as the work progresses and ensure that this delay does not impact subsequent deadlines or deliverables.

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