Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
12
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Access Now Europe
EU Transparency Register
241832823598-19 First registered on 27 Sep 2016
Goals / Remit
Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. By combining innovative policy, user engagement, and direct technical support, we fight for open and secure communications for all.
Main EU files targeted
Access Now Europe is actively involved in several EU legislative proposal impacting digital rights of users in Europe, including:
- Telecoms Single Market
- Export Control
- Cybersecurity
- ePrivacy reform
- Encryption
- Data economy
- International Data Transfers
- General Data Protection Regulation
- Legislation on Data Retention
- EP Resolution on Mass surveillance
- EU Passenger Name Records Directive
- EP own initiative reports
- Digital Single Market
- TTIP & TiSAAddress
Head Office
Rue Belliard 20
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 10 Oct 2017
Name Start date End Date Chiara MANFREDINI 18 Nov 2023 15 Nov 2024 Caterina RODELLI 15 Mar 2024 14 Mar 2025 Daniel LEUFER 15 Mar 2024 14 Mar 2025 Eliska PIRKOVA 20 Mar 2024 02 Oct 2024 Ms Eliska PIRKOVA 20 Mar 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Caterina RODELLI 15 Mar 2024 15 Apr 2024 Mr Daniel LEUFER 15 Mar 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Chiara MANFREDINI 18 Nov 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Caterina RODELLI 22 Feb 2023 22 Feb 2024 Mr Daniel LEUFER 22 Feb 2023 22 Feb 2024 Ms Eliska PIRKOVA 22 Feb 2023 22 Feb 2024 Ms Estelle Massé 22 Feb 2023 16 Nov 2023 Ms Fanni Hidvégi 22 Feb 2023 22 Feb 2024 Ms Fanni Hidvégi 09 Nov 2019 07 Nov 2020 Ms Estelle Massé 09 Nov 2019 07 Nov 2020 Ms Eliska PIRKOVA 09 Nov 2019 07 Nov 2020 Mr Guillermo Beltrà Navarro 24 Jan 2019 24 Jan 2020 Ms Fanni Hidvégi 17 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms Estelle Massé 17 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms LUCIE KRAHULCOVA 17 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms Nina Komakhidze 17 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms Fanni Hidvégi 27 Oct 2017 17 Oct 2018 Ms Estelle Massé 27 Oct 2017 17 Oct 2018 Ms LUCIE KRAHULCOVA 27 Oct 2017 17 Oct 2018 Ms Nina Komakhidze 27 Oct 2017 17 Oct 2018 Ms Fanni Hidvégi 10 Oct 2016 04 Oct 2017 Ms Estelle Massé 10 Oct 2016 04 Oct 2017 Ms LUCIE KRAHULCOVA 10 Oct 2016 27 Oct 2017 Ms Nina Komakhidze 10 Oct 2016 05 Oct 2017 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Fanni Hidvegi (European Policy Manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Brett Solomon (Executive Director)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Access Now Europe is a member of European Digital Rights (EDRi).
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Access Now Europe is a member of the Multistakeholder expert group to support the application of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (E03537)
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
Access Now Europe is a nonprofit NGO which advocates for the protection of human rights in the digital environment by ensuring an open internet where the rights of citizens - including freedom of expression, freedom of association, access to information and privacy - are upheld. This includes, but is not limited to privacy (e.g. data protection, data retention, surveillance, cybersecurity, etc), access to remedy and freedom of expression (media plurality, etc).
Access Now Europe, registered in Belgium, is a separate legal entity from Access Now (also registered in the Transparency Register). The two entities have different legal structures and staff. Access Now Europe focuses specifically on EU issues. The two entities collaborate in shared areas of focus and due to their partnership, they share a website.- Meetings
Meetings
12 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.
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Date 06 Feb 2024 Location video conference Subject data and data protection Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Dec 2023 Location Videoconference Subject Digital policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
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)
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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)
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Date 09 Dec 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - Centre for Democracy & Technology, Europe
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Wikimedia Foundation
- epicenter.works - Plattform Grundrechtspolitik
- Avaaz Foundation
- Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs
- Counter Extremism Project
- HOMO DIGITALIS ΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΜΗ ΚΕΡΔΟΣΚΟΠΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ
- European Digital Rights
- Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband
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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)
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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 - Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
- Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)
- Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 04 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Digital policy Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet member)
- Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
- Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)
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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)
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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)
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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 -
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
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