Clean Air Action Group (Levegő Munkacsoport)

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

116,027€

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

  • 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 60 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 corruption

    Address

    Head Office
    Üllői út 18.
    1085 Budapest
    Budapest 1465
    HUNGARY
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    50

    Employment timeLobbyists
    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)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    European Environmental Bureau

    European Federation for Transport and Environment

    Health and Environment Alliance

    Climate Action Network Europe

    Green Budget Europe

    ALTER-EU

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    116,027€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • 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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