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OFFICIAL

Dear Rex,

Acknowledgment of request for access under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (Cth)

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) acknowledges
receipt of your email of 19 February 2023 requesting, under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth), to:

‘emails between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and:

Meta (including Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp) on the topics of phone
addiction or social media addiction.

Below are some constraints that hopefully narrow the scope.

Time frame 2022-01-01 till 2023-02-19

Please exclude drafts (and duplicates)

I'm happy to have all email addresses redacted except for the domain name.
eg. @facebook.com I'm happy to have names of anyone from the public
service who's pay grade is lower than SES1 redacted and for the 3rd
parties anyone, unless they are a director, vice president, some sort of
executive officer eg. CFO.

I'm not against any other reasonable redactions just wanted to be upfront.

Please *exclude* emails that are to/from anyone who has the pay grade of:

APS1 through APS6, unless someone outside of that pay grade band is
included.

For example emails:

To: APS1, APS2 would be excluded

However To: APS1, EL1 would be included.

I am not looking for emails that have been sent solely within the
Australia government, only emails that include one of the above
companies.’

Timeframe for processing your request

The ACCC has 30 days to process your request, beginning 19 February 2023.
This timeframe may be extended by the ACCC where consultation with third
parties is necessary.

Charges

If the ACCC decides that you should pay a charge to process your request,
we will notify you of the likely cost of processing your request and your
options if you disagree. The statutory timeframe is placed on hold from
when this is sent to you and resumes at a later time.

We will notify you of any charges in relation to your request as soon as
practicable.

Consultation with third parties

The ACCC may be required to consult with businesses or individuals (third
parties) where you have sought information about those third parties. The
Act grants an extra 30 days processing time for the ACCC to undertake this
consultation. You will be advised if we extend the timeframe to allow
third party consultation.

Decision

A decision maker will assess the documents (if any) to decide if we can
release them, or if they are exempt from release. We will send you the
decision and notify you of your review rights.

We will only release documents once any applicable processing charge is
paid.

If we cannot locate any documents that are covered by the scope of your
request, we will advise you of this and your review rights.

Publication of documents released under FOI

Material released under FOI may be published on our website unless we
consider it unreasonable to do so.

If you have any questions regarding the above, please contact me on
(02) 6243 1244.

Yours sincerely

Sonya Petreski

FOI Officer | Corporate Law Unit, Specialist Advice and Services Division
(SASD)
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Level 2 | 23 Marcus Clarke Street Canberra 2601 |
[1]http://www.[ACCC request email]
T: +61 2 6243 1244 | F: +61 2 6243 1210
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OFFICIAL

Dear Rex,

Please find the attached for your consideration.

Kind regards,

Rebecca Fenech

FOI Manager | Corporate Law Unit | Specialist Advice and Services Division
(SASD)

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
23 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra 2601 | [1]www.accc.gov.au
T: (02) 6243 1244

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Australia and recognises their continuing connection to the land, sea and
community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures; and to their
Elders past, present and future.

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