Confédération Européenne de l’Industrie de la Chaussure

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

200,000€ - 299,999€

Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3.1 Fte (4)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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 footwear industry through different activities:

    A) Lobbying
    Maintain 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
    Liaise with Members associations, technology and education centers to collaborate on EU and other international initiatives.
    Coordinate Members’ activities in relation to the EU where appropriate.

    C) Research and Innovation
    Initiate research on topics approved by the General Assembly on technical, safety, social and environmental aspects, digitalisation, new business models, etc. Identify EU funding opportunities and participate in EU projects with relevant stakeholders.

    D) Increase international collaboration with other worldwide footwear associations to promote free trade and a level playing field.

    Main EU files targeted

    - EU Trade agreements with MERCOSUR, Mexico, Chile, Australia, etc.
    - - Revision of EU GSP Regulation
    - Foreign subsidies
    - EU Industrial Strategy and EU Textile Strategy
    - Fight against counterfeiting and IPR
    - Consumer product safety and market surveillance
    - EU flagship initiative: Multi-stakeholder forum on CSR
    - EU Green Deal, environmental initiatives towards a Circular Economy, Product Environmental Category Rules, etc.
    - Sustainable Products Policy Initiative
    - General Product Safety Regulation
    - CSR legislative proposals
    - 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
    - - Internationalisation of SMEs

    Address

    Head Office
    Square de Meeûs nº37
    Bruxelles 1000
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Square de Meeûs nº37
    Bruxelles 1000
    BELGIUM

    Website

    http://www.cec-footwearindustry.eu

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    4

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%3
    10%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3.1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 18 Nov 2022

    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

    The CEC has 3 full time employees and 1 President (honorary position):

    Ms Carmen Arias Castellano: Secretary General
    Ms Andrea-Eleonora MASOTTO: Policy Officer
    Ms Mathilde Rozé: Communications and EU Project Assistant

    Mr Luis ONOFRE: President

    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

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    N/A

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant EU Programmes (LIFE; Interreg Europe; Erasmus+) 188,000€

    Major contributions in current year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant EU programmes (LIFE; Interreg Europe, Erasmus+) 110,000€

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    - High-level roundtable "Helping small and family businesses thrive", event organised in the framework of the EU Regions Week 2021 for the Success Road Interreg Project, 3 November 2021
    - "Helping your footwear company move towards a greener production", EU Green Week 2021 Partner event for the LIFE GreenShoes4All project, 7 June 2021 and in June 2022
    - EU Pact for Skills High-level Roundtable with European Commissioners Nicolas Schmit and Thierry Breton and Textile, Clothing, Leather and Footwear (TCLF) stakeholders, 17 March 2021
    - A series of workshops in the framework of the Network of TCLF VET Providers to promote excellence in VET, under the Erasmus+ Blueprint Skills4SmartTCLF project, 14 April and 29 June 2021, and the EU Network of Regions supporting VET modernisation and lifelong learning in the TCLF sectors (various meetings from March to June 2022).

    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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