CEE Bankwatch Network

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Overview

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.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

4.5 Fte (10)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

4

High-level Commission meetings

36

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    CEE Bankwatch Network   (BWN)

    EU Transparency Register

    93834493808-49 First registered on 30 Jun 2010

    Goals / Remit

    CEE Bankwatch Network is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with member organisations currently from 12 countries across the central and eastern European region.

    We monitor the activities of the international financial institutions (IFIs) which operate in the region and the spending of European Regional Development and Cohesion Funds in CEE, and propose constructive alternatives to IFI and EU policies and projects in the region.

    Bankwatch is working to prevent negative environmental and social impacts of IFI or EU financed projects, and promotes public participation and access to information about IFI activities and European cohesion policy across our region.

    Our goals:
    · To create public awareness about the activities of international financial institutions (IFIs) and EU funds in central and eastern European countries and its social and environmental impacts.

    · To promote public participation in the decision making process on the public investments

    Main EU files targeted

    We monitor the activities of the international financial institutions (IFIs) which operate in the region and the spending of European Regional Development and Cohesion Funds in CEE, and propose constructive alternatives to IFI and EU policies and projects in the region.

    Bankwatch is working to prevent negative environmental and social impacts of IFI or EU financed projects, and promotes public participation and access to information about IFI activities and European cohesion policy across our region.

    At EU level, Bankwatch is active on the various EU funding schemes that relate to the energy and environmental transition, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the cohesion policy funds (such as the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund regulation and the Just Transition Fund), the Modernisation Fund, the InvestEU programme, the Connecting Europe Facility, Western Balkans Investment Framework and Ukraine Reconstruction Facility.

    Bankwatch works with EU institutions regarding the implementation of recovery and resilience plans, the programming of the EU funds, as well as the update of national strategies (such as the National Energy and Climate Plans) by Member States and their assessment by the European Commission.

    In its work relating to the EIB, Bankwatch influences and interacts with EU institutions regarding the various policy guidelines of the Bank such as the revision of climate energy and transport policies.

    Bankwatch aims to influence policy files such as the Fit for 55 package (in particular the Renewable Energy Directive, Energy Efficiency Directive, Social Climate Fund, Emission Trading Scheme, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) and the Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) and Projects of Common Interest (PCIs) list.

    Other pieces of legislation stemming from the European Green Deal initiative, such as the Biodiversity strategy, the Forestry strategy, the renovation wave and the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) are also of interest for Bankwatch and a subject on which it will interact with EU institutions.

    Bankwatch works also on the transposition, implementation and monitoring of various files such as the Energy Union Governance Regulation, the Air Quality Directive, the National Emission Ceiling Directive, Industrial Emissions Directive and Large Combustion Plants Directive, also in relation to the Energy Community Treaty, the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment and the Aarhus Convention and other EU environmental legislation (Birds and Habitats Directives, Water Framework Directive).

    Address

    Head Office
    Heřmanova 1088/8
    Prague 7 170 00
    CZECH REPUBLIC
    EU Office
    Rue d'Edimbourg 26
    Bruxelles
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    10

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%8
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    4.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Mar 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Valeriya IZHYK 11 Jul 2023 10 Jul 2024
    Ms Joanna JAKUBOWSKA 16 Jun 2023 14 Jun 2024
    Mr Christophe JOST 15 Jun 2023 14 Jun 2024
    Ms Francesca CANALI 15 Jun 2023 14 Jun 2024
    Mr Raphael HANOTEAUX 20 Jun 2020 20 Mar 2021
    Mr Daniel THOMSON 20 Jun 2020 01 Jan 2021
    Ms Desislava STOYANOVA 30 Nov 2019 28 Nov 2020
    Ms Ioana CIUTA 23 Nov 2019 21 Nov 2020
    Ms Anelia Stefanova 20 Nov 2019 01 Dec 2020
    Mr Nicolas HUBERT 05 Nov 2019 24 Mar 2020
    Mr Raphael HANOTEAUX 05 Jul 2019 13 Mar 2020
    Mr Raphael HANOTEAUX 09 Oct 2018 01 May 2019
    Mr Raphael HANOTEAUX 29 Mar 2018 13 Sep 2018
    Mr David Holyoake 25 Jan 2017 24 Jan 2018
    Mr Marc PIPER 16 Jan 2016 15 Jan 2017
    Mr Markus Trilling 09 Oct 2015 07 Oct 2016
    Mr Markus Trilling 15 Oct 2014 09 Oct 2015
    Mr Jakub Jerzy Gogolewski 16 Jul 2014 14 Jul 2015
    Mr Markus Trilling 25 Jul 2013 23 Jul 2014
    Mr Markus Trilling 22 Jun 2012 25 Jul 2013
    Ms Anelia Stefanova 22 Jun 2012 01 Aug 2013

    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

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    GREEN 10. www.green10.org
    The Green 10 are ten of the largest European environmental organisations/networks. They coordinate joint responses and recommendations to EU decision makers. Membership of the Green 10 alone is more than 20 million people.

    Counter Balance www.counterbalance-eib.org/
    Counter Balance is a European coalition of development and environmental non-governmental organisations, formed in 2007 to specifically challenge the European Investment Bank. Counter Balance's mission is to make the EIB an open and progressive institution delivering on EU development goals and promoting sustainable development to empower people affected by its work.
    Counter Balance includes members from:
    · Central and Eastern Europe: CEE Bankwatch Network
    · France: les Amis de la Terre
    · Germany: urgewald and WEED
    · Italy: Re:Common
    · Netherlands: BothEnds
    · United Kingdom: Bretton Woods Project

    Euro-IFIs

    Member organisations

    Bulgaria: For the Earth! (Za Zemiata!) www.zazemiata.org(1),
    Croatia: Green Action, http://zelena-akcija.hr/(1),
    Czech Republic: Centre for Transport and Energy (CDE) www.cde.ecn.cz(1),
    Czech Republic: Hnuti DUHA www.hnutiduha.cz(1),
    Estonia: Estonian Green Movement-FoE (ERL) www.roheline.ee(1),
    Georgia: Green Alternative www.greenalt.org(1),
    Hungary: National Society of Conservationists - Friends of the Earth H(1),
    Latvia:Green Liberty https://www.zalabriviba.lv/en/(1),
    Macedonia: Eco - sense www.ekosvest.com.mk/home_eng.html(1),
    Poland: Polish Green Network www.zielonasiec.pl(1),
    Slovak Republic: Friends of the Earth - www.priateliazeme.sk/cepa(1),
    Ukraine: National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU) www.necu.org.ua(1), Ecoaction to
    Kyiv, https://en.ecoaction.org.ua/ (1)
    Russia: Sakhalin Environment Watch, http://www.sakhalin.environment.ru(1),
    Lituania: Atgaja(1)

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    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.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    3,085,297€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Grants, Public financing, EU funding

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution European Climate Foundation 885,193€
    Contribution Swedish International Development Agency 835,620€
    Contribution European Commission 778,892€
    Contribution Foundation Open Society Institute 167,542€
    Contribution EuroNatur Foundation 114,674€
    Contribution Schwab Charitable Fund 65,232€
    Contribution Partners cofinancing 42,319€
    Contribution Carbon Market Watch 39,118€
    Contribution WWF Adria 35,611€
    Contribution Europe Beyond Coal 28,956€
    Contribution Both Ends 28,275€
    Grant European Commission 778,892€

    Major contributions in current year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant Life Operating Grant 422,500€
    Grant Life CET Programme 791,325€
    Grant CERV Programme 149,873€
    Grant DG Regio 12,839€
    Grant Horizon Europe - Bolster 35,100€
    Grant Hirizon Europe - Shared Green Deal 71,040€

    Other financial info

    More details on our income sources in 2022 is available in our annual report:https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2022-Bankwatch-Annual-Report.pdf

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Commission's expert group on the European Network of Environmental Authorities - Managing Authorities for the Cohesion Policy#E00510#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=510 #Observer #C#Civil society#Dialogue with CPR partners 2021-2027 - Group of experts on the funds established by Regulation (EU) No 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council#E03802#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3802 #Member #C#Civil society#Commission's expert group Greening the European Semester / Environmental Implementation Review#E02987#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2987 #Observer #C#Civil society

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Bankwatch regularly publishes results of its monitoring activities, as well as policy briefings developped to inform the various processes.

    Other activities

    On behalf of CEE Bankwatch Network the persons listed below have had, during the reporting period, four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 30 percent or more of their working time on behalf of CEE Bankwatch Network carrying out such activities:
    1. EU Cohesion Policy and ERDF/CF / Climate and Energy
    Raphael Hanoteaux, CEE Bankwatch
    Anelia Stefanova, CEE Bankwatch
    2. EIB (operations inside/outside EU)
    Anna Roggenbuck, CEE Bankwatch

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    36 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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