Overview
Lobbying Costs
724,091€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.25 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
12
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties)
EU Transparency Register
544892227334-39 First registered on 08 Jun 2017
Goals / Remit
The mission of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) is to promote protect and uphold human rights, civil liberties, the rule of law and democratic values in the European Union. Liberties is committed to its mission of protecting human rights and civil liberties in the European Union. The work of Liberties is guided by universal human rights, the universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity for each human being. Liberties is also committed to promoting an inclusive human rights culture in the European Union without distinction of race, gender, nationality, social condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, functional diversity and ethnic, cultural, religious or any other background.
Main EU files targeted
- Rule of law
- EU monitoring
- Strengthening civil society/NGO
- Freedom of expression
- Privacy, Data protection
- Migration/RefugeeAddress
Head Office
Prinzenstr. 103
4th floor
Berlin 10969
GERMANYEU Office
Rue Belliard 12
Brussels 1000
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 4 75% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 14 May 2018
Name Start date End Date Mr Israel BUTLER 21 Aug 2019 01 Sep 2020 Mr Israel BUTLER 08 Sep 2017 06 Sep 2018 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Israel Butler (Head of Advocacy)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Balazs Denes (executive director)
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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
None declared
Member organisations
http://www.liberties.eu/en/organisations
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
724,091€
Other financial info
The financial year of Liberties shall be the calendar year and shall commence on January 1 of each year and shall end on December 31 of each year.
The association is established inn accordance with the German Civil Code on non-profit associations.
Liberties - to ensure its independence- does not accept government funding.
Liberties - to ensure its independence - does not accept support from any funder that could compromise the mission and independence of Liberties. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- Awareness raising
- engage in advocacy and dialogue for increasing the protection of human rights at both the national level as well as the European level
- Public education
- Website
- New letter
- Monitoring and reporting
- Public interest litigation
- Conferences
- WorkshopOther activities
Liberties is a membership-based association of European human rights, civil liberties watchdog non-governmental organisations who are based with their registered office in at least one of the Member States of the European Union. Liberties is a non-partisan, non-governmental and non-sectarian organisation.
- Meetings
Meetings
12 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 20 Nov 2023 Location videoconference Subject AI Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Apr 2022 Location Videoconference Subject SLAPP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 20 Jan 2022 Location Virtual Subject Digital Issues DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 20 Jan 2022 Location Virtual Subject Digital Issues DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 19 Jan 2022 Location videoconference Subject Rule of Law Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
- Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jan 2022 Location Videoconference Subject SLAPP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Irina Stefuriuc (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Nov 2021 Location VC Subject Rule of Law Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 26 Mar 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Anti-SLAPP coalition launch Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 22 Jul 2020 Location Video-conference Subject Anti-SLAPPs measures Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member)
- Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
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Date 20 Jul 2020 Location videoconference Subject Media freedom Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 22 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Rule of Law in Poland Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Thomas Zerdick (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject Exchange of views on the current situation with NGOs in Hungary Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Thomas Zerdick (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings