Overview
Lobbying Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS)
EU Transparency Register
61991787780-18 First registered on 19 Jan 2012
Goals / Remit
The Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS) is the European umbrella organisation for 22 national private security employers’ associations. It was founded in 1989. CoESS is the only representative European employers’ organisation defending the interests of the private security services industry. It is recognised by the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) as a European sectoral social partner in accordance with the European Treaties. CoESS represents 18 EU Member States and a total of 22 countries, which translates into some 45,000 private security companies employing a total of 2 million private security employees. The European private security services industry generates a yearly turnover of approximately € 40 billion Euros.
Main EU files targeted
Land Security: rail & public transport
Maritime and Port Security
Social Dialogue private security sector
CBRNe
Critical Infrastructure
Insider Threat
Services Standardisation
Undeclared Work
Future legislation on drones (UA's)
Artificial IntelligenceAddress
Head Office
avenue des Arts 56 / Kunstlaan 56
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
avenue des Arts 56 / Kunstlaan 56
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 08 Dec 2023
Name Start date End Date Mr Alexander Frank 26 Aug 2023 26 Aug 2024 Ms Catherine Piana 19 Mar 2022 18 Mar 2023 Mr Alexander Frank 17 Mar 2022 17 Mar 2023 Ms Catherine Piana 25 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Mr Alexander Frank 06 Jun 2019 06 Jun 2020 Ms Catherine Piana 20 Dec 2018 01 Jan 2020 Ms Catherine Piana 03 Jan 2018 20 Dec 2018 Ms Catherine Piana 08 Dec 2016 07 Dec 2017 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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
- European Business Services Roundtable (EBSRT)
- European Employers' Network (EEN)
- NBN (Bureau for standardisation in Belgium)
- European Business Service Alliance (EBSA) http://servicealliance.eu/
- CEN Cenelec https://www.cencenelec.eu/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
500,000€ - 599,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusin - Agreement number VS/2021/0031 133,402€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion - Agreement number VS/2021/0031 16,787€ Grant Grant Agreement VS/2021/0211 - Procurfair 2,438€ Grant Horizon Europe (HORIZON) - Projectg 101073945 - SAFE-CITIES - HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01-07 28,675€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Expert Group on Land Transport Security#E02821#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2821 #Observer #C#Industry#Experts group on Safe and Secure Parking Areas for Trucks#E03642#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3642 #Member #C#Professionals#Expert Group on Drones#E03533#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3533 #Member #C#Industry#Stakeholders' Advisory Group on Aviation Security#X02883#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2883 #Member #C#Employees/workers, Professionals#Stakeholders Advisory Group on Maritime Security #E01087#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=1087 #Member #C#Industry#Standing Committee on Precursors#E03245#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3245 #Observer #C#Professionals
Groups (European Parliament)
Demographic challenges, family-work balance and youth transition#Artificial intelligence and digital
Communication activities
White Paper on the New Security Company
White Paper on Critical Infrastructure Protection
Best Practices in Transport Security - October 2017
EU funded project "Anticipating, Preparing and Managing Employment in the Private Security Industry -final 2018
EU funded project "AITRAP - Aviation Insider Threat Recognition and Prevention - Final 2018
White Paper "The Security Continuum in the New Normal" -October 2019
CoESS-Euralarm Cyber Security Guidelines - October 2019
CoESS-Federsicurezza 6th European Summit - Rome, 10 October 2019
White Paper "The New Normal 2.0: Private Security and COVID-19 in Europe" - October 2020Other activities
Sectoral Social Dialogue 'Private Security'
EU U-Space Demonstrator network
Meetings
Meetings
5 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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 19 Oct 2020 Location online Subject Social dialogue Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Andrea Nahles (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 06 Jun 2017 Location Brussels Subject security matters Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Julian King (Commissioner)
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Date 28 Feb 2017 Location Brussels Subject Security Union Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Silvio Mascagna (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Dec 2016 Location Brussels Subject Infrastructure protection Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Severine Wernert (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Feb 2015 Location Berlaymont, Brussels Subject Internal Market Strategy for Goods and Services Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)