Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats / Belgische Verbruikersunie Test-Aankoop

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The following entries are flagged as duplicates of this organisation: 20249725565-04

Overview

Lobbying Costs

50,000€ - 99,999€

Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats / Belgische Verbruikersunie Test-Aankoop   (Test-Achats)

    EU Transparency Register

    694466214317-80 First registered on 09 Sep 2014

    Goals / Remit

    As a consumer organisation our goal is to inform, help and defend consumers in all their 'consumer activities'. We do this by providing them all information they need, by helping them in conflicts with businesses and service providers, by launching legal (class) actions, by representing them in advisory boards and commissions, and by lobbying decision makers at all levels (regional, national, European, …)

    Main EU files targeted

    Consumer rights, passenger rights, digital rights, privacy and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, product safety, sustainability, early obsolescence, green claims, food, health, energy, telecom, competition, financial services, enforcement, collective redress, consumer empowerment.

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue de Hollande, 13
    Brussels 1060
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Rue de Hollande, 13
    Brussels 1060
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 28 Mar 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Jean Francois BIERNAUX 18 Oct 2016 14 Oct 2017

    Complementary Information

    N/A

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Euroconsumers
    BEUC
    Consumers International (CI)
    ICRT
    ANEC

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    50,000€ - 99,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant Cicle-X 100,000€

    Major contributions in current year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant Cicle-X 40,855€

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    50,000€ - 99,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Consumer Policy Advisory Group#E03750#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3750 #Member #C#Civil society

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Class action against programmed obsolescence of Apple products; petition for nutri-score to be mandatory on all food products in all EU-countries, action "My data is mine" against FaceBook practices related to personal data, class action related to the "Dieselgate" scandal against VW, action against HP following the excessive blocking of its printers, petition for affordable prices of drugs (medecines), energy platform accessible to consumers to help them to find the best energy prices and suppliers, etc.

    Other activities

    - Participating in activities and hearings about: sutainability, telecom, energy, privacy, AI, financial services, food, health and unfair commercial practices.
    - Follow-up, in collaboration with BEUC, of the dossiers in the domains mentioned above.
    - Defending consumer interests by contacting MEP’s and EU-representatives.
    - Member of ECCG and the Stakeholder consultation group REFIT consumer law acquis.
    - Member of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Steering Committee

  • 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.

    • Date 10 Sep 2020 Location Brussels - video conference
      Subject Consumer policies in support of the European Green Deal
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
      Portfolio European Green Deal
      Attending
      • Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 22 Jul 2019 Location Brussels
      Subject Access to medicines
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
      Portfolio Health &amp; Food Safety
      Attending
      • Alina Timofte (Cabinet member)
      • Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
      • Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
      Other Lobbyists
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