Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Confédération Européenne de l’Industrie de la Chaussure (CEC)
EU Transparency Register
13497369622-37 First registered on 17 Sep 2012
Goals / Remit
To contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the industry through different activities:
A) Lobbying.
Maintaining dialogue with EU institutions with a view to ensuring that the interest of EU footwear industry is taken into account at the appropriate level in the different EU policies.
B) Information and coordination.
Liaison with Members associations, technology and education centers: Collaboration on EU and other international initiatives of the EU. Coordination of Members’ activities in relation to the EU where appropriate.
C) Research and Innovation.
Initiating research on topics approved by the General Assembly on technical, safety, social and environmental aspects, digitalisation and new business models, etc. Identification of EU funding opportunities and participation in EU projects with
D) Increase international collaboration with other worldwide footwear associations to promote free trade on a level playing field.Main EU files targeted
- FTA's: MERCOSUR, Mexico, Chile, Australia, etc.;
- Revision of GSP Regulation
- Industrial policy
- Counterfeiting and IPR
- Consumer product safety and market surveillance
- EU flagship initiative: Multistakeholder forum on CSR
- EU Green Deal, environmental initiatives towards a Circular Economy, Product Environmental Category Rules, etc.
- REACH and related chemical regulations
- Modernisation of Trade Defence Instruments
- Footwear Social Dialogue
- EU Skills Agenda, VET modernisation, Centres of Vocational Excellence,Pact for Skills
- ERASMUS+, LIFE, Horizon 2020, and Interreg Europe
- Erasmus+ Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation TCLF
- Internationalisation of SMEsAddress
Head Office
Rue de la Science, 14b
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 30 Dec 2020
Name Start date End Date Ms Carmen ARIAS CASTELLANO 16 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Ms Andreea Nicoleta STEFAN 16 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Mr Paul LASSERRE 16 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Ms Carmen ARIAS CASTELLANO 12 Oct 2018 12 Oct 2019 Ms Andreea Nicoleta STEFAN 04 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms Michela Valentina Reino 22 Nov 2014 29 Sep 2015 Mrs CARMEN ARIAS CASTELLANO 25 Sep 2013 24 Sep 2014 Ms Michela Valentina Reino 19 Sep 2013 18 Sep 2014 Ms Michela Valentina Reino 27 Sep 2012 19 Sep 2013 Mrs CARMEN ARIAS CASTELLANO 27 Sep 2012 21 Sep 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
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
150,000 € (Source: E. Commission Programme Erasmus+, LIFE, Interreg Europe,Social Dialogue)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
2 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 16 Mar 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills roundtable with the textile, clothing, leather and footwear sectors. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
- Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 16 Mar 2021 Location Videconference Subject Skills roundtable on textile Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Eszter Batta (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings