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, the main consumer organization in Italy, promotes and defends the interests of citizens, developing actions and projects aimed at guaranteeing them as individuals and as a community. Through its membership in organizations such as Consumers International, BEUC and Euroconsumers, Altroconsumo makes the voice of consumers heard in Europe and around the world. The organization counts on the support of 345 thousand members and over 350 thousand fans and sympathizers, is independent and for over 40 years has based its action on a scientific approach to information, publishing surveys and comparative tests.To strength the centrality of consumers in the market, Altroconsumo offers consultancy and services dedicated to companies to support them in the development of increasingly customer-oriented goods and services. With a team of 345 professionals, Altroconsumo offers answers to millions of citizens and handles more than 400,000 requests for advice a year.
Main EU files targeted
2020
Non-performing loans (NPLs) directive – Bank and bank services (Action plan: Tackling non-performing loans (NPLs) in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic).
Eurobond – COVID 19 crisis and emergency measure – Eurobond as lending tool of the eurozone member states.
Air passenger rights in EU - Enforcement of air passenger rights in the COVID-19 context
• Communication of the Commission C(2020) 1830 final
• Recommendation (EU) 2020/648 of 13 May 2020 on vouchers offered to passengers and travellers as an alternative to reimbursement for cancelled package travel and transport services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and Regulation 261/2004 on Air Passenger Rights in the COVID-19 context
Eu Strategy for Covid-19 vaccines - Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council and the European investment bank - Eu strategy for covid-19 vaccines -com/2020/245 final
Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe (Communication from The Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe Com/2020/761 Final)
Sustainable single market (INI Report 2020/2021)
Product safety in the Single Market (INI Report 2019/2190) - Safety Directive
Sustainable finance – EU taxonomy (Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (Taxonomy) on the estab-lishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment)
Digital Service Act (Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on a Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC - COM/2020/825 final)
Digital Market Act (Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act) -COM/2020/842 final)
The new Consumer Agenda - 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)
Revision of rules on information provided to consumers - Proposal for a revision of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers – Roadmap – inception impact assessment - Farm to Fork strategy (COM (2020) 381 final)
Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) for card-based payment transactions
KPMG - National Strategy to Promote Electronic Payments in Italy (REFORM/SC2020/031) - ConsultationAddress
Head Office
via Valassina, 22
Milano 20159
ITALY -
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
10.11 Webinar - Food labelling for healthier choices: Towards an EU-wide Nutri-Score? (Beuc)
Projects 2020
MILE 21 (settembre 2018/Agosto 2021) - Commissione Europea ( Life+): The first set of tools that will help consumers to find out the real fuel consumption of their cars and to choose a vehicle that is less harmful to the environment
BELT (settembre 2019/febbraio 2022) - Commissione Europea (Horizon 2020): the new energy label
PROMPT (maggio 2019/aprile 2023) – Commissione Europea ( Horizon 2020): help extending the useful lifetime of products and to contribute to the transition to a circular economy
GVI (giugno 2019/novembre 2020) - link third party di ICRT, Commissione Europea (Horizon 2020): orient the consumer towards the most energy efficient low polluting vehicle by providing understandable information.
CLEAN (giugno 2020/maggio 2021) – Commissione Europea (Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme): the project has as objective to: - Rightfully inform consumers over performance and more polluting products - Warning consumers and report misleading or not proved environmental claims (discussion with manufacturer asking to prove their claims when we cannot test it example “total bio degradable product”) - Support consumer using and trusting exist-ing environmental labels more than self-declared claims - test to evaluate the present of micro-plastic (and/or nono plastics) in detergents - Revise test protocols to include those aspects - Train-ing of consumer organisations to develop or enhance testing expertise; - Exchange of good prac-tices and knowledge-sharing events and/or seminars (thanks to the support of BEUC and ICRT); - Development and rolling out of testing and comparison pilot projects in line with sound methodo-logical principles
ConsumerPro Sustainability (luglio 2019/luglio 2021) – Beuc CHAFEA/2018/CP/04): development, implementation and follow-up at national level of a two-full days event on sustainability.
Clear 2.0 – Commissione Europea (Horizon 2020): Comparative tests on photovoltaic sys-tems and pellet stoves, purchasing groups and study on consumer behavior
Comcamp/Beuc – BEUC DG JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS (JUST/2017/CONS/PR/JU01/0100-2): Provide basic information mainly on magazines and on the web to help consumers know and exert their rights
FOODSUPPADS (gennaio 2020/giugno 2021) – Beuc/ Consumers, Health, Agricul-ture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) ('the Agency'), under the powers dele-gated by the European Commission ('the Commission'): coordinated action into the area of food and health as the market relevance of food supplements is growing and usually advertising is hidden into published content, which makes it potentially surreptitious
Projects 2021
CICLE (24 months) – Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) under the powers delegated by the European Commission ('the Commis-sion'): The general objective of CICLE project is to be able to feed regularly enforcement authori-ties’ websites with consumer complaints, in order to fill in the gap of EU market surveillance relat-ed to the insufficient and overtime cooperation between acknowledged consumer organizations and CPC authorities as well as create awareness on ADR schemes. This will help 1) to better tackle consumer law breaches nationally and cross border and 2) to develop a live monitoring tool out of it to be used for nourishing the existing consumer law compliance indicator and measure how con-sumer policy is performing at national at EU level.
Circthread (48 months) – European Commission (Horizon 2020): The aim is enhance decision making using information across the product life cycle to improve lifespan, repair, remanu-facturing and recycling.Other activities
None declared
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)
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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