Overview
Lobbying Costs
25,000€ - 49,999€
Financial year: Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Automattic
EU Transparency Register
513729920039-18 First registered on 21 Dec 2015
Goals / Remit
Our aim is to democratize publishing on the web. We seek to achieve this through the provision and operation of the WordPress.com online platform, and associated products and services.
Main EU files targeted
We have contributed to consultations about the Digital Services Act and its implementation.
Address
Head Office
60 29th Street #343California
San Francisco CA 94110
UNITED STATESEU Office
60 29th Street #343California
San Francisco CA 94110
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1
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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Tech Against Terrorism:https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/2021/07/27/announcing-tech-against-terrorisms-newest-members-3/
Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: https://gifct.org/membership/
Mid-Size Tech EuropeMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
25,000€ - 49,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount dga group europe sa 0€ - 10,000€ Intermediaries for current year
Name dga group europe sa Closed year Costs
25,000€ - 49,999€
Other financial info
The figure above represents the salary percentage for an FTE who works on representing our interests and the costs incurred for membership in a group chaired by DGA Group Europe SA. We do not incur office costs as we are a distributed company. As detailed previously, our activities in the EU are minimal.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
In collaboration with the Open Internet Alliance, we have published two open letters regarding the Digital Services act:
https://transparency.automattic.com/2018/06/12/were-against-bots-filtering-and-the-eus-new-copyright-directive/
https://transparency.automattic.com/2021/06/23/the-digital-services-act-defending-the-digital-single-market-and-the-open-internet/
In collaboration with Mid-Sized Tech Europe, we convened a roundtable with members of European Parliament to discuss issues related to the implementation of the DSA.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 29 Apr 2024 Location Online Subject Digital Services Act guidelines Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 09 Feb 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Regulation of digital services and fragmentation of the internal market Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 17 Sep 2021 Location Brussels (WEBEX) Subject Digital Services Act and the future of the Open Internet Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 12 Jul 2021 Location Virtual Subject DSA Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists