Overview
Lobbying Costs
110,751€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25 Fte (15)
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. This can result in the loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or rejection 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.
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/alter-eu-members#overlay-context=who-we-areMain 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.
Issues covered in 2016-17:
- EU Transparency Register and its implementation
- Commission Work Programmes for 2016 and 2017, including the establishment of a mandatory transparency register for interest representatives
- Ongoing implementation of Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament with respect to financial interests and conflicts of interest (2011/2174(REG))
- Ongoing implementation of 2014 European staff regulations
- Ongoing implementation of 2011 Code of Conduct for Commissioners
- Ongoing review and updating of Rules of Procedure for Expert Groups
- European Parliament's working group: Revisiting the Rules of Procedure
- Transparency, accountability and integrity in the EU institutions. Reference: 2015/2041(INI) Own-initiative report procedure. AFCO. Sven GIEGOLD
- Transparency of the Council and Permanent RepresentationsAddress
Head Office
Rue d'Edimbourg, 26
Brussels 1050
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People
Total lobbyists declared
15
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 25% 13 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 28 Jun 2017
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 2016-17, 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. As made clear, almost all are employed by steering committee members and not ALTER-EU directly:
- Nina Katzemich (LobbyControl) (transparency, ethics, expert groups)
- Andreas Pavlou (Access Info) (transparency, ethics)
- Helen Darbishire (Access Info) (transparency, ethics)
- Margarida Da Silva (Corporate Europe Observatory) (transparency, corporate capture, ethics) from September 2016
- Vicky Cann (Corporate Europe Observatory) (transparency, corporate capture, ethics)
- Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory) (transparency, corporate capture, ethics, expert groups)
- Pascoe Sabido (Corporate Europe Observatory) (transparency, expert groups)
- Martin Pigeon (Corporate Europe Observatory) (transparency, ethics)
- Fabian Flues (Friends of the Earth Europe) (transparency, ethics) until May 2016
- Paul de Clerck (Friends of the Earth Europe) (transparency, corporate capture, ethics, expert groups)
- Myriam Douo (Friends of the Earth Europe) (transparency, corporate capture, ethics, expert groups) from June 2016
- William Dinan (Spinwatch) (transparency, ethics)
- Jorgo Riss (Greenpeace European Unit) (transparency, ethics, expert groups)
- Nicola Freeman (ALTER-EU Coordinator) (transparency, ethics, expert groups) on sabbatical June 2017-January 2018
- Olufemi Oluwole (ALTER-EU intern) (transparency, ethics) until February 2017
ALTER-EU has no European Parliament access passes itself, although some of the above individuals are registered via their own organisations.Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Olivier Hoedeman (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
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
110,751€
Other financial info
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU, we have calculated that in 2016 ALTER-EU directly spent €11,083 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 or other associated costs on behalf of ALTER-EU and covered by the EU Transparency Register:
- AccessInfo €8,781
- Corporate Europe Observatory €20,475
- Friends of the Earth Europe €25,104
- Greenpeace EU Unit €11,958
- LobbyControl €30,350
- SpinWatch €3,000
Total in-kind contributions: €99,668. These are figures which are not included in ALTER-EU's budget.
Please note that the organisations in the ALTER-EU steering committee have all registered individually. The in-kind contributions listed here are also included in the total costs attributable to activities covered by the Register as declared by those individual registrations.
The role of the ALTER-EU coalition coordinator and intern are largely focused on administration and coalition support and outreach tasks, but include a small amount of external advocacy work (15%).
The major contributions received from members in 2016 were €5,000 from Greenpeace EU unit, €2,500 from Corporate Europe Observatory, €2,500 from Friends of the Earth Europe, and €2,000 from Lobbycontrol.
The 2016 budget of €143,511 as reported here includes a reservation of funds of €60,206 carried over to the 2017 budget.
ALTER-EU's accounts 2013-16 can be viewed on our website: https://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/ALTER-EU%20Financial%20Summary%202013-2016%20UPDATED.pdf -
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 although we may occasionally attend meetings.
Communication activities
All this information is available on our website: http://www.alter-eu.org/
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)