Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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Does not represent commercial interests

Mar 2022 - Feb 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

5,474,627€

We have a Development Team of five staff, who work full-time on fundraising and grant management. We do
not have any voluntary fundraisers working on our behalf, and we do not use external fundraising agencies or
commercial participators to deliver any of our fundraising.
Our approach to fundraising is driven by respect, honesty and openness. We respect the wishes and
preferences of all of our supporters and beneficiaries, and are sensitive to the needs of every individual. We are
open and inclusive to all, regardless of visible and invisible differences. And we are accountable for delivering a
high standard of fundraising.
We make every effort to ensure that our fundraising does not intrude on peoples’ privacy, that it is not
unreasonably persistent, and that it does not place pressure on anyone to donate to our organisation. The
Development Team monitors its own fundraising activities and presents its work to the Senior Management
Team and Board for evaluation and approval on a regular basis.
To strengthen our relationship with supporters, we continue to develop new approaches to supporter
engagement. By gaining insights from our supporter base through regular communication, we are aware of
what matters to our supporters and seek to align our database, technology and practices with supporter
expectations. We aspire to best practice in the way we engage our supporters, and our fundraising activity has
only generated complaints twice in the past ten years. We encourage any supporters with questions about our
fundraising to contact us.

EU funding to Cambodia (started in 2019) and Turkey (starting in October 2021) is funding project's implementation, not operating costs.

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• In 2018, we published a briefing, commissioned by MEP Lola Sanchez Caldentey, on key developments, human rights allegations and best practices in the European textile industry. More here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/european-textile-industry-and-human-rights-due-diligence-key-developments-human-rights-allegations-best-practices/
• We are a content member of the Alliance for Corporate Transparency, a project with the aim of providing evidence-based recommendations to improve and develop the EU NFRD. More information here: https://www.allianceforcorporatetransparency.org/
• BHRRC’s Executive Director Phil Bloomer co-authored a piece with ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow on EU Justice Commissioner Reynders’ announcement of the Commission’s initiative on sustainable corporate governance. More here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/something-for-europeans-to-celebrate-a-new-social-contract-begins-to-emerge/
• We co-ordinated an NGO letter signed by 45 civil society organisations to Commissioner Reynders in June 2020. More information here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/45-csos-underline-need-for-robust-eu-mandatory-due-diligence-directors-duties-legislation-in-joint-letter-to-commissioner-reynders/
• We launched a business statement in September 2020 in support of an EU-level mandatory due diligence law. More information here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/eu-mandatory-due-diligence/
• We launched a compendium of perspective papers on EU mandatory due diligence as part of the German Development Ministry’s (BMZ) EU presidency activities in November 2020. The 20 contributions from academia, public sector, civil society and business explore what meaningful due diligence and corporate accountability legislation should look like. More here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/towards-eu-mandatory-due-diligence-legislation/
• Co-hosted an expert talk in November 2020 on sustainable finance and its link to the corporate disclosure and mandatory due diligence agendas at EU level, with the European Responsible Investment Network (ERIN), Frank Bold, Global Witness and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights. The talk brought together experts from across business, civil society and public sector. More information here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/webinar-explores-synergies-between-eu-sustainable-finance-corporate-disclosure-and-mandatory-due-diligence/

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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.

• Date	11 Jan 2022	Location	video call
  Subject	Mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	An Economy that Works for People
  Attending	Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Front Line Defenders

• Date	12 Nov 2021	Location	Online
  Subject	EU Sustainable Corporate Governance
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Global Witness