Overview
Lobbying Costs
158,972€
Financial year: Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Animals International (The global arm of Animals Australia)
EU Transparency Register
844984035602-19 First registered on 08 Aug 2019
Goals / Remit
Animals International is the global arm of Animals Australia, Australia's foremost animal advocacy organisation.
It's mission is to investigate, expose and raise community awareness of animal cruelty, to provide animals with the strongest representation possible to Government and other decision-makers, and to educate, inspire, empower and enlist the support of the community to prevent and prohibit animal cruelty.
The investigation arm of Animals International has focussed on the welfare issues of long distance transportation of farm animals (particularly sheep and cattle), including in relation to European and South American animals.
Animals International also collaborates with many other animal protection groups throughout the world, in order to provide animals with the strongest possible representation.Main EU files targeted
All those relevant to animal welfare standards and Directives, e.g. Regulation 1/2005 in regard to the welfare of animals during transport.
Address
Head Office
Animals Australia
37 O'Connell Street
North Melbourne 3051
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
We have 2 full time people working in Europe.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Gabriel Paun (EU Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Glenys Oogjes (CEO)
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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
http://www.icfaw.org/
https://www.eurogroupforanimals.org/Member organisations
Our member societies are only Australian based.
We have some 30,000 individual members, and over 2 million supporters. -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
158,972€
Other financial info
We report in AUD, so have converted this to EUR using the rate at the 30th June 2019: 0.6177112840
The income figure from all sources (donations) is for all of the Animals Australia/Animals International activities combined.
Funds are primarily raised via the Australian head office, though there are European individual donors who contribute.
Activities of our European based staff are paid by the Australian office.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
As indicated earlier, our interest is particularly to ensure the treatment of animals is humane and that European laws are improved and compliance with existing Directives is ensured.
Long distance transport is the current focus of our work in Europe. In this respect we have partnered with Eurogroup For Animals.Other activities
None declared
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Meetings
1 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 19 Aug 2019 Location Brussels Subject Animal transport Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
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