Overview
Lobbying Costs
170,773€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
25 Fte (50)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Clean Air Action Group (Levegő Munkacsoport) (CAAG)
EU Transparency Register
351764810742-20 First registered on 04 Mar 2013
Goals / Remit
The Clean Air Action Group (CAAG) is one of the best-known non-governmental organizations in Hungary that deal with the protection of the environment. Established in 1988, CAAG today serves as an umbrella organization of about environmental NGO’s. Its Experts’ Committee consists of 57 specialists of various professions. CAAG received the Hungarian Prize NGO of the Year 2006. The main fields of activities of the CAAG are the following: greening the state budget and taxation, sustainable transport, sustainable energy policy, and sustainable urban development. In 1991 CAAG prepared its first study on green budget reform with concrete proposals for the Hungarian government. Since that time CAAG each year published studies on this topic. CAAG’s activities include public awareness raising, consulting, research, publishing and advocacy at the local and national levels.
Excerpts from CAAG’s Statute:
“1.6. The Clean Air Action Group is a politically neutral organization without any party affiliation. It is independent of political parties, and it does not support financially nor does it receive any financial support from any political party. It does not nominate or support candidates for Parliamentary and local governmental elections at national, municipality or district level.”
„2.1. The Clean Air Action Group works to implement the principle that the most fundamental human right is the right to live and to be healthy, and all other human rights can only be put into effect with full respect of this basic human right.
2.2. With the condition described in point 2.1. the Clean Air Action Group supports efforts that aim at keeping the impact of human activities within the limits of nature’s capacity or at diminishing the impacts of human activities to these limits.
2.3. The Clean Air Action Group helps to maintain or re-establish a healthy environment for people in built-up areas including the interior parts of buildings.
2.4. The Clean Air Action Group is especially interested in helping to put into practice “the polluter pays” principle, that is to make the users pay for the use of nature and the damages they cause to the environment and for the costs of preventing these damages and for re-establishing the environment to a good condition.
2.5. The Clean Air Action Group is active in reducing the use of non-renewable energy sources and other natural resources. At the same time it supports activities that can be improved without using non-renewable resources in great quantities or without causing enormous damage to the environment, and at the same time improve human society, that is culture, arts, education, healthcare, scientific research and any other form of social activity for the betterment of living conditions in society.
2.6. The Clean Air Action Group does its best to increase public participation in the field of environmental protection, to improve the direct forms of strengthening democracy and to increase the spread of information and public access to information.
2.7. The Clean Air Action Group primarily works for making the state budget and transport policy and regional policy and energy policy of Hungary more environment-friendly and for protecting and increasing the territory of green areas in settlements.
2.8. The Clean Air Action Group promotes the socialization of consumer protection and the creation of conscious consumer behaviour in the society.”Main EU files targeted
Clean Air Package
Energy Tax Directive
European Semester (Country Specific Recommendations)
Multiannual Financial Framework
Eurovignette Directive
Energy Union and Climate
Mechanism for the periodic assessment of EU States' efforts in the fight against corruptionAddress
Head Office
Üllői út 18.
Budapest 1465
HUNGARY -
People
Total lobbyists declared
50
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 50 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Márton Vargha (expert)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr András Lukács (president)
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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
European Environmental Bureau
European Federation for Transport and Environment
Health and Environment Alliance
Climate Action Network Europe
Green Budget Europe
ALTER-EUMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
170,773€
EU grant income for closed financial year
41,230 € (Source: European Commission)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
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.
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Date 18 Nov 2022 Location virtual Subject To discuss the recently adopted Commission proposal for the revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directives Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner)
- Elena Montani (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Ecologistas en Accion
- BRAL Stadsbeweging voor Brussel
- CANOPEA
- Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)
- CITTADINI PER L'ARIA
- Green 10
- RESPIRE – Association nationale pour l’amélioration de la qualité de l’air et la défense des victimes de la pollution de l’air
- Vartotojų aljansas (Lithuanian Consumers Alliance)
- Polski Klub Ekologiczny Okręg Mazowiecki
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Date 09 Jan 2018 Location Brussels Subject The situation 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)
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Date 29 Mar 2017 Location Bruxelles Subject Situation 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 -
Date 17 Jan 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Civil Society 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 - Bernd Martenczuk (Cabinet member)
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