Access Now Europe

Access Now Europe is a member of European Digital Rights (EDRi).

As an AISBL in Belgium, we have to have members forming our General Assembly. Our 3 members are natural persons and they are the same persons as the directors of the organisation as part of the Administrative Council, per Belgian association law. The 3 members are: Yvette Alberdingk Thijm (also acting as President); Andrew Cohen (also acting as Treasurer); and Brett Solomon (also acting as Executive Director).

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Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

1,022,138€

The contributor "Access Now US" is a separate legal entity registered in the USA. They are an affiliated entity and the relationship between the two entities (Access Now US and Access Now Europe) is governed by a memorandum of understanding. The contributions made by Access Now US to Access Now Europe are executed on the basis of an annual grant agreement between the two entities.

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13 meetings found. Download meetings

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

• Date	08 Apr 2024	Location	Riga
  Subject	Tech and Russian independent media
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Attending	Marie Frenay (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Reporters sans frontières Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiaries (f/k/a Facebook Ireland Limited)

• Date	06 Feb 2024	Location	video conference
  Subject	data and data protection
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
  Attending	Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Dec 2023	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Digital policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Attending	Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Date	09 Nov 2023	Location	videoconference
  Subject	AI Act and fundamental rights
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Apr 2023	Location	videoconference call
  Subject	Transparency of Political Advertising Regulation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Dec 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Thierry Breton (Commissioner) Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Electronic Frontier Foundation Centre for Democracy & Technology, Europe

• Date	07 Oct 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	European Democracy Action Plan
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 May 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Fundamental Rights, EC response to COVID 19, GDPR, Artificial Intelligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Daniel Braun (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Vice-President) Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member) Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Digital Rights

• Date	04 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Digital policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member) Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Suomen itsenäisyyden juhlarahasto Sky Group

• Date	01 Mar 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Privacy Shield, GDPR implementation and e-Privacy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
  Portfolio	Digital Single Market
  Attending	Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member) Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Privacy International Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

• Date	15 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	ePrivacy Directive and the EU cybersecurity strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Digital Economy and Society
  Attending	Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet member)

• Date	07 Mar 2017	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Privacy shield, GDPR
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
  Attending	Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

• Date	07 Mar 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	e-Privacy proposal, general data protection regulation-state of play, privacy shield and international transfer
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
  Portfolio	Digital Single Market
  Attending	Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Digital Rights