Overview
Lobbying Costs
225,000€
Financial year: Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)
EU Transparency Register
2694372574-63 First registered on 29 Oct 2008
Goals / Remit
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 200 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms
ALTER-EU is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. ALTER-EU believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency.
A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed.
In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow guidelines that result from consultations with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobby transparency as well as experts of US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of ALTER_EU, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on http://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/2012_ALTER-EU_CSCG_guidelines_Transparency_Register.pdf
The full list of ALTER-EU members is available here: http://www.alter-eu.org/about/demandsMain EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Rue d'Edimbourg
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Jul 2013
Name Start date End Date Mr Claudio Mario CESARANO 03 May 2018 01 May 2019 Mr Olufemi Oluwole 30 Sep 2016 01 Mar 2017 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Erik Wesselius (Member of the Steering Committee)
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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
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
225,000€
Other financial info
ALTER-EU is a coalition of organisations, and has no staff of its own, save a coalition coordinator. The organisational budget was administered by a steering committee member and covered salary costs and office expenses of the coordinator in 2012 (45.100 Euro in total).
Lobbying expenditures where covered by voluntary contributions by the members of the Steering Committee and other members of the coalition. Our members contribute in kind (staff time) and share the costs for specific activities (rent of venues, cost of adverts and publications).
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU, we have calculated that ALTER-EU spent an estimated 212.378 Euro in 2012 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions. The estimated contributions from each of the organisations represented in the steering committee was:
- Access Info Europe: 5.167 Euro
- Corporate Europe Observatory: 113.146 Euro
- Friends of the Earth Europe: 28.735 Euro
- Greenpeace European Unit: 10.000 Euro
- LobbyControl: 43.000 Euro
- Spinwatch: 8.485 Euro
- Health Action International (HAI): 3.845 Euro (HAI stepped down from the steering committee as per 1 November 2012)
Please note that the above-mentioned organisations have also registered individually and reported in detail about their lobbying expenses (including the amounts declared above for ALTER-EU lobbying activities). -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
6 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 14 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject IIA for a Mandatory Transparency Register Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 May 2017 Location Brussels Subject Exchange of views on stakeholders' meetings DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Olivier Guersent (Director-General)
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Date 01 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject Transparency Register Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)
- Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Apr 2016 Location Brussels Subject transparency Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
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Date 26 May 2015 Location Berlaymont, Brussels Subject Transparency Register Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Dec 2014 Location Berlaymont Subject Mandatory transparency register Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)