Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
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 focused on the welfare issues of long distance transportation of farm animals (particularly sheep and cattle), and their slaughter, 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
37-39 O'Connell Street
North Melbourne 3051
AUSTRALIA -
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
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
VI - Organisations representing local, regional and municipal authorities, other public or mixed entities, etc.
Subcategory
Transnational associations and networks of public regional or other sub-national authorities
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Networking
Affiliation
http://www.icfaw.org/
https://www.eurogroupforanimals.org/
https://wfa.org/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
We report in AUD, so have converted this to EUR using the rate at the 2 July 2021.
The income figure from all sources (donations and memberships) 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)
Welfare and conservation of animals
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
Meetings
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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