Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Altroconsumo (AC)
EU Transparency Register
3832920956-65 First registered on 13 Jan 2009
Goals / Remit
ALTROCONSUMO promotes and protects the basic interest and rights of consumers, as regards health and safety, the protection of economic interests, the right to redress, the right to be informed, the right to consumer education, the right to be represented and heard, the right to a healthy environment.
ALTROCONSUMO takes action on two fronts: on the one hand information and assistance to consumers through our magazines and services, and on the other by representing consumers with local, national and international institutions and collective information spread through the media.Main EU files targeted
2020
NPL directive
(27.02.2020 Letter to member ECON Committee/European Parliament)
Eurobond e Coronabond
(06.04.2020 – Lettera a Paolo Gentiloni, Commissario europeo per l’Economia/Commissione EU - Maurizio Massari, Ambasciatore Rappresentanza Permanente d’Italia presso l’UE – Elena Basile, Ambasciatrice d’Italia a Bruxelles)
Enforcement of air passenger rights in the COVID-19 context
(22.07.2020 Letter to Marie-Paule Benassi, DG JUST and Adina Valean, DG MOVE/European Commission)
05.10.2020 – Contribution to the Public Consultation – The new Consumer Agenda, open public consultation - empowering consumers in the green transition, a review of the Directive on consumer credit agreements for consumers (2008/48/EC); a review of the General Product Safety Directive (2001/95/EC)
Mercato unico sostenibile e sicurezza prodotti
(23.11.2020 - Letter to Italian MEPS/European Parliament)
Open Fiber “Rete Unica”
(12.10.2020 – Letter to Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner for Competition/European Commission - Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market/European Commission – Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner for Economy/European Commission)
Online Questionnaire on the Pharmaceutical Strategy
Dossier followed in collaboration with Beuc (European Consumer Organization):
Clean Energy package
Sunscream filter 50 +
Acrilammide in food
Nutriscore – Fop
Pharmaceutical StrategyAddress
Head Office
via Valassina, 22
Milano 20159
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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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
BEUC - https://www.beuc.eu/
Euroconsumers - https://www.euroconsumers.org/
Consumers International - https://www.consumersinternational.org/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
38,364 € (Source: Beuc)
Other financial info
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Consumer Policy Advisory Group#E03750#http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3750 #Member #C#Civil society
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Events 2020
30-31.01 Bruxelles - Commissione EU, Consumer Summit 2020
20.02 Bruxelles – Beuc, Convegno “CLEAR 2.0 final Conference “Switching consumers on the renewables: lessons from the ground for the Green Deal”
25.02 Roma – Incontro con delegazione deputati Commissione IMCO - Parlamento europeo
29.10 Videoconference - Incontro con MEP Elisabetta EVI su Mobilità Sostenibile
Projects 2020
MILE 21 (settembre 2018/Agosto 2021) - Commissione Europea ( Life+)
BELT (settembre 2019/febbraio 2022) - Commissione Europea (Horizon 2020)
PROMPT (maggio 2019/aprile 2023) – Commissione Europea
GVI (giugno 2019/novembre 2020) - link third party di ICRT, Commissione Europea (Horizon 2020)
CLEAN (giugno 2020/maggio 2021) – Commissione Europea (Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme)
ConsumerPro Sustainability (luglio 2019/luglio 2021) – Beuc CHAFEA/2018/CP/04)
CICLE (24 months) – Commissione Europea/CHAFEA
Circthread (48 months) – European Commission
Clear 2.0 – Commissione Europea (Horizon 2020)
Comcamp/Beuc – Commissione Europea
FOODSUPPADS (gennaio 2020/giugno 2021) – Beuc/CHAFEAOther activities
Our main way of action to protect consumers is to inform and educate them. We do this by means of our publications that carry the results of product comparison tests, wide coverage on surveys, concrete and useful advice to single out the best quality versus price ratio and the most profitable opportunities for consumers, thereby enabling the latter to be in a position to choose, negotiate, avoid mistakes or swindles and to protect themselves.
ALTROCONSUMO wants the voice of consumers to be heard by national and international institutions responsible for the decisions made on issues regarding aspects of the consumer’s daily life and actively takes part in a great number of hearings, meetings and committees, both Italian and international, dealing with consumer problems.
Through press releases, press conferences, TV and radio programs, our activity is publicized with the general public. Mass media are often a useful ally in making people aware, on a local, domestic and international level.
ALTROCONSUMO is committed to transparency about EU interest representation.
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 lobbying expenses, and a list of those who, on behalf of ALTROCONSUMO, carry out activities with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
Altroconsumo is member of several international organizations, such as Consumers International, and is represented since 1978 in BEUC, the European Consumer Association Organization, that guarantees each association privileged lines of communication with EU institutions.
We actively participate at BEUC activities and take part in a great number of hearings, meetings and committees with MEP’s and EU Commissioners dealing with consumer problems.- Meetings
Meetings
2 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 26 Nov 2015 Location BXL Subject Cybersecurity and consumers fostering web safety DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Bodo Lehmann (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 25 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject digital divide of italian users and consumers / Web Safety Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Jasmin Battista (Cabinet member)
- Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings