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Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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
Digital Single Market, Telecom, Energy, Data protection, Internet of Things, Financial services, Food (labeling, novel foods, nutrition, additives), Health (Drugs, medical devices, transparency clinical surveys, E-health), Consumer rights,
Circular economy, International trade, REFIT consumer acquis, competition,...Address
Head Office
Rue de Hollande, 13
Brussels 1060
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 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 22 Jan 2019
Name Start date End Date Mr Jean Francois BIERNAUX 18 Oct 2016 14 Oct 2017 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Els Bruggeman (Domain Head European Policy and Enforcement)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Ivo Mechels (General Manager)
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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
Consumers International (CI)
ICRT
ANECMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Stakeholder consultation group for the Fitness Check of EU consumer and marketing law #E03423 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3423 #Member #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
• Participating in activities and hearings about: telecom, energy, privacy, 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.- 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 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 & Food Safety Attending - Alina Timofte (Cabinet member)
- Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
- Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists
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