Access Now Europe

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

150,000€

Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

5 Fte (5)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

4

High-level Commission meetings

11

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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 & TiSA

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue Belliard 20
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    5

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%5

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 02 Oct 2018

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Eliska PIRKOVA 20 Mar 2024 02 Oct 2024
    Ms Caterina RODELLI 15 Mar 2024 14 Mar 2025
    Mr Daniel LEUFER 15 Mar 2024 14 Mar 2025
    Ms Chiara MANFREDINI 18 Nov 2023 15 Nov 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)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

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

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    150,000€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Multistakeholder expert group to support the application of Regulation (EU) 2016/679#E03537 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3537 #Member #C

    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

    11 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.

    • 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)
    • 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
    • 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
      • Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
      • Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)
      • Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
      • Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
      Other Lobbyists
    • 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)
      Other Lobbyists
    • 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
      • Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
      • Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • 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
    • 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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