Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3 Fte (12)
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 and trade unions 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
The main objective of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU is to promote transparency of the EU decision-making process and effective ethics regulations for EU decision-makers.
The dossiers in which we engaged regarding transparency and ethics regulation include:
• 2014/2010(ACI) Inter-Institutional Agreement on the Transparency Register
• Report on the modification of the inter-institutional agreement on the Transparency Register (2014/2010(ACI))/ Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rapporteur: Roberto Gualtieri
• Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament with respect to financial interests and conflicts of interest (2011/2174(REG))
• Review of the Staff Regulations (COM(2011)0890 – C7-0507/2011 – 2011/0455(COD))
• Framework for Commission’s expert groups:
Horizontal Rules and Public Register (C(2005)2817)Address
Head Office
Rue d'Edimbourg, 26
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 12 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 31 Mar 2015
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
On behalf of ALTER-EU the persons listed below have had, during the year 2014, four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 20 percent or more of their working time on behalf of ALTER-EU carrying out such activities:
- Max Bank (LobbyControl)
- Pam Bartlett-Quintillana (AccessInfo)
- Vicky Cann (Corporate Europe Observatory)
- Natacha Cingotti (Friends of the Earth Europe)
- Paul de Clerck (Friends of the Earth Europe)
- William Dinan (Spinwatch)
- Fabian Fluess (Friends of the Earth Europe)
- Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory)
- Jorgo Riss (Greenpeace European Unit)
- Pascoe Sabido (Corporate Europe Observatory)
- Erik Wesselius (Corporate Europe Observatory)
- Nicola Freeman (ALTER-EU Coordinator)Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Erik Wesselius (Member of the Steering Committee)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Paul De Clerck (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
http://alter-eu.org/about/demands#lists
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Other financial info
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU, we have calculated that in 2014 ALTER-EU spent €8,100 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions. In addition, the organisations represented in the steering committee contributed in kind staff time spent on activities on behalf of ALTER-EU and covered by the EU Transparency Register:
- AccessInfo €26,100
- Corporate Europe Observatory €87,900
- Friends of the Earth Europe €26,000
- Greenpeace €10,000
- LobbyControl €33,100
- SpinWatch €3,500
Total in kind contributions: €186,500
Please note that the organisations in the ALTER-EU Steering Committee have all registered individually. The in kind contributions listed here are included in the total costs attributable to activities covered by the Register as declared in the individual registrations.
The role of the ALTER-EU coalition coordinator is largely focused on administration and coalition support and outreach tasks, but does include a small amount of external advocacy work (15%), with costs estimated at €8,100 for 2014. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
Intergroup on integrity, transparency, corruption and organised crime (ITCO). ALTER-EU is NOT a member of this intergroup.
Communication activities
None
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 - Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
- Michelle Sutton (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)