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Overview

Lobbying Costs

10,000€ - 24,999€

Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.1 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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 had little involvement in previous EU initiatives or consultations. So far we have contributed to the following: "Public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy;" and European Commission meetings on the Digital Services Act.

    Address

    Head Office
    60 29th Street #343 California
    San Francisco CA 94110
    UNITED STATES
    EU Office
    60 29th Street #343 California
    San Francisco CA 94110
    UNITED STATES

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Companies & groups

  • 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/

    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

    10,000€ - 24,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    10,000€ - 24,999€

    Other financial info

    The figure above represents the salary percentage for an FTE who works on representing our interests. We do not incur office costs as we are a distributed company. As detailed previously, our activities in the EU are minimal.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    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/

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    3 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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