In other words, if you went to the EU‘s own website and followed the only official link to the survey, and then filled it out and submitted it… you would get the error page.

I alerted the Commission to this and they have since fixed the link on their own website… but still.

First: it‘s absolutely ridiculous that the survey would not work with the trailing slash. Second, it‘s ridiculous that even though it would not work, it still displayed the survey and let people fill out the whole thing only to dump the results at the end. Third, it‘s a complete travesty that they linked to this very same wrong link in their own consultation page, potentially leading many, many people to fill out this long and confusing survey and have the results dumped into the garbage can.

I‘ve spoken to a few people at the EU Commission about this, and I get the feeling that they are (reasonably) embarrassed and apologetic about this, but they have not said anything publicly at all, nor have they publicly explained to people why their survey results may not have been submitted. I have asked if they would consider extending the survey a few more weeks, given this mistake on their own platform, but I have not heard a response yet.