Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: May 2016 - Apr 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Consumer Choice Center (CCC)
EU Transparency Register
326140126649-42 First registered on 06 Apr 2017
Goals / Remit
Consumer choice is pivotal for economic freedom and lifestyle decision. Regulators on local, national, and supranational levels keep regulating more and more areas of consumers' lives. This leads to less consumer choice and usually higher costs.
Whether protectionism in the airline industry prevents more efficient airlines to sell cheaper tickets to passengers, excessive taxation of consumption serve as letters of indulgence, or branding bans destroy the brand value of companies. Consumers don't benefit but suffer from such regulation.
In some cases paternalistic regulations cause even harm. Examples can be seen in more driving under influence cases in cities after banning ride-sharing services such as Uber or smokers being unable to switch to less harmful ways of consuming nicotine such as vaporizers. Branding bans lead to a higher accidental consumption of counterfeited products that can be of lethal consequence for the consumer.Main EU files targeted
The CCC will cover the following policies and initiatives: food and agriculture policies, fat/sugar tax, soda tax, food labelling, health care and harm reduction, trade initiatives (TTIP /TTP), transportation and aviation regulations.
Address
Head Office
2221, 12th Floor Arlington, S Clark St.
Floor Alington 22202
UNITED STATES -
People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 75% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 10 Jan 2018
Name Start date End Date Luca BERTOLETTI 10 Feb 2022 13 May 2022 Luca BERTOLETTI 07 Aug 2020 28 Aug 2021 Mr William WIRTZ 26 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2020 Mr Frederik Frank Cyrus ROEDER 10 Jul 2019 01 Jul 2020 Ms Mariia CHAPLIA 10 Jul 2019 10 Jul 2020 Luca BERTOLETTI 29 May 2019 29 May 2020 Mr Frederik Frank Cyrus ROEDER 07 Jul 2018 06 Jul 2019 Luca BERTOLETTI 09 May 2018 01 May 2019 Luca BERTOLETTI 05 May 2017 01 May 2018 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Luca Bertoletti (European Affairs Manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Frederik Roeder (Managing Director)
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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
www.studentsforliberty.org
Member organisations
www.studentsforliberty.org/europe
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
We monitor consumer choice among Intergroups
We monitor consumer choice among Industry forums.Communication activities
We create a dialogue between consumers and industries and see B2C as a healthy relationship that does not need overregulation and overprotection.
• We are the voice for Consumer Choice in Civil Society.
• Work with a Creative Campaigning Powerhouse that exposes consumers to the threat of not being able to chose your products or services.
• We disseminate your industry’s threats for Consumer Choice to mainstream and social media.
• We empower consumers to speak up for Consumer Choice.
https://www.consumerchoicecenter.org/launch-event/
https://www.consumerchoicecenter.org/canada-event/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 02 Jun 2020 Location Video phone call Subject Genetic modified organisms and innovation in agriculture Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Jun 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject aviation DG Mobility and Transport Attending - Henrik Hololei (Director-General)
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