Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.45 Fte (15)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
19
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
EU Transparency Register
5353162366-85 First registered on 05 Sep 2008
Goals / Remit
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making. Corporate Europe Observatory is strongly committed to transparency about EU lobbying. CEO believes that the Transparency Register fails basic transparency standards and does not yet live up to its name. We support a legally-binding register, stronger safeguards against inaccurate reporting, and the publication of the names of all individual interest representatives. We regret that the 2021 register revamp no longer requires NGOs and think tanks to submit a figure for an annual lobby spend. We will continue to provide such a figure in the notes below. We also regret that the names of individual lobbyists can no longer be provided.
Main EU files targeted
- The Commission work programmes: 2023, 2024
- Implementation of EU Transparency Register & ethics rules for Commissioners, EU officials, and MEPs
- Transparency of covert interference by third countries and the 'Defence of Democracy package'
- Regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 - EU Farm to Fork files, in particular pesticide legislation
- Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability & its implementation, including via REACH revision including Essential Use, Export ban on banned substances, and proposed restriction on universal Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS)
- The Better Regulation agenda and Regulatory Scrutiny Board
- EU position at climate negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Projects of Common Interest
- Important Projects of Common European Interest
- Global Gateway
- European Green Deal
- Fit for 55
- 30 Nov 2022 Proposal for a Regulation on an EU certification for carbon removals
- 6 February 2024 EU Industrial Carbon Management Strategy
- 6 February 2024 Communication on a 2040 Climate Target
- February 2023 A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age
- March 2023 Net Zero Industry Act
- Implementation of the decarbonised gases and hydrogen package
- Communication on the European Hydrogen Bank
- RePower EU Plan, (including EU external energy engagement in a changing world)
- EU Energy Platform and Industry Advisory Group
- 2024-2029 EU strategic agenda
- 2022/0051(COD) Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937
- Electricity Market Design
- EU competitiveness beyond 2030 & 30 years single market
- The enforcement mechanisms related to the Single Market: the Commission’s complaint mechanism, the notification procedure in the field of technical regulation and the services notification procedure, the 2020 Proportionality Test Directive
- Single Market reform
- The Letta and Draghi reports
- Vade-Mecum on public procurement in the European Commission
- Strategy for financing the transition to a sustainable economy
- European Semester & related procedures
- Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC COM/2020/825
- Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act) COM/2020/842
- Revision of the Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market ('Directive on electronic commerce')
- Artificial Intelligence Act
- Proposal to improve the working conditions of people working through digital labour platforms
- EU coronavirus vaccine strategy, contracts, and roll-out, and the proposal for a TRIPS-waiver of Covid related therapeuticsAddress
Head Office
Rue d'Edimbourg, 26
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue d'Edimbourg, 26
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
15
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 8 25% 5 10% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.45
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 27 Jul 2024
Name Start date End Date Marcella VIA 30 Nov 2023 07 Nov 2024 Ms Martha MYERS-LOWE 06 May 2023 31 Jan 2024 Ms Margarida da Silva 05 Nov 2019 31 Oct 2020 Mr Richard Olivier Hoedeman 11 Sep 2019 01 Oct 2020 Ms Luisa IZUZQUIZA 15 Jun 2019 01 Jul 2020 Ms Nina Holland 13 Apr 2019 01 May 2020 Mr Martin Pigeon 05 Apr 2019 04 Apr 2020 Ms Margarida da Silva 26 Oct 2018 26 Oct 2019 Ms Nina Holland 03 Feb 2018 02 Feb 2019 Ms Lora Verheecke 30 Jan 2018 31 Oct 2018 Mr Richard Olivier Hoedeman 07 Dec 2017 06 Dec 2018 Ms Margarida da Silva 01 Nov 2017 26 Oct 2018 Mr Martin Pigeon 05 Oct 2017 27 Sep 2018 Ms Nina Holland 26 Oct 2016 25 Oct 2017 Mr Pascoe Sabido 19 Oct 2016 18 Oct 2017 Mr Martin Pigeon 13 Oct 2016 05 Oct 2017 Ms Margarida da Silva 30 Sep 2016 29 Sep 2017 Mr Richard Olivier Hoedeman 07 Jun 2016 04 Jun 2017 Ms Katharina KLEIN 22 Sep 2015 18 Jan 2016 Mr Erik Wesselius 12 Sep 2015 10 Sep 2016 Mr Pascoe Sabido 05 Sep 2015 03 Sep 2016 Ms Nina Holland 03 Sep 2015 01 Sep 2016 Mr Martin Pigeon 03 Jul 2015 30 Jun 2016 Mr Richard Olivier Hoedeman 04 Jun 2015 01 Jun 2016 Ms Nina Holland 01 May 2014 05 Jun 2015 Ms Lora Verheecke 08 Jan 2015 06 Jan 2016 Mr David Lundy 09 Jan 2015 07 Jan 2016 Mrs Lora Verheecke 08 Jan 2015 27 Jan 2015 Mr Erik Wesselius 05 Jul 2014 03 Jul 2015 Mr Richard Olivier Hoedeman 01 May 2014 04 Jun 2015 Mr Martin Pigeon 01 May 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mrs Nina Holland 01 May 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Pascoe Sabido 01 May 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mrs Leontine Hogervorst 05 Feb 2014 18 May 2014 Mrs Victoria Lucy Cann 02 Oct 2013 22 Feb 2014 Ivan MAMMANA 21 Jun 2013 22 Feb 2014 Mr Richard Olivier Hoedeman 18 Apr 2013 17 Apr 2014 Mrs Maria Belen Balanya Vidal 18 Apr 2013 02 Mar 2014 Mr David Sanchez Carpio 13 Apr 2013 03 Oct 2013 Mr Erik Wesselius 13 Apr 2013 02 Apr 2014 Mrs Ester Arauzo Azofra 13 Apr 2013 02 Mar 2014 Mr Kenneth Haar 13 Apr 2013 12 Feb 2014 Mr Martin Pigeon 13 Apr 2013 12 Apr 2014 Mrs Nina Holland 13 Apr 2013 12 Apr 2014 Mr Pascoe Sabido 13 Apr 2013 12 Apr 2014 Mrs Pia Eberhardt 13 Apr 2013 15 Feb 2014 Mrs Rachel Tansey 13 Apr 2013 03 Oct 2013 Mr Martin Konecny 13 Apr 2013 05 Oct 2013 Complementary Information
Since November 2021, we declare all campaign and external communication staff as working 50% on activities aimed at directly and indirectly influencing the EU institutions. We think this reflects the objectives and work that CEO staff do including producing research, holding events, and communicating about the corporate influence upon the EU institutions. Not all 15 persons mentioned above worked for CEO for the full year of 2023, nor did they all work full-time, and as mentioned above, we consider they worked 50% of their working time on EU influencing. All figures have been rounded up. We consider that if other registrants, in particular corporations, trade associations, consultancies, and law firms, took a similar approach and fully declared staff and budget spent directly and indirectly influencing the institutions, the amounts declared would substantially increase.
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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
- Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) www.alter-eu.org
- The Treaty Alliance http://www.treatymovement.com/
- Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B) www.s2bnetwork.org
- European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) www.corporatejustice.org
- Climate Justice Now! (CJN!) https://climatejusticenow.org/
- Better Regulation Watchdog (BRW) www.betterregwatch.eu/
- European Network of Corporate Observatories https://corpwatchers.eu/
- Change Finance coalition http://www.changefinance.org/
- Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation https://citizens4pesticidereform.eu/
- Rights for people, rules for corporations campaign https://stopisds.org/
- Beyond Gas Network https://www.rosalux.eu/metanavigation/multimedia/time-to-go-beyond-gas/
- Climate Justice Action https://climatejusticeaction.net/en/
- Fossil Free Politics coalition https://fossilfreepolitics.org/
- No Patents on Seeds https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/start
- European Alliance for Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines https://medicinesalliance.eu/
- Make Big Polluters Pay https://makebigpolluterspay.org/
- Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice https://demandclimatejustice.org/
- Liability Roadmap https://liabilityroadmap.org/
- People vs. Big Tech https://peoplevsbig.tech/
- EU Food Policy Coalition https://foodpolicycoalition.eu/
- Justice is Everybody's Business Coalition https://justice-business.org/
- Real Zero Europe Coalition https://www.realsolutions-not-netzero.org/
- Kick Big Polluters Out coalition https://kickbigpollutersout.org/
- Ban PFAS manifesto https://banpfasmanifesto.org/en/
- Stop Glyphosate https://stopglyphosate.eu/
- SET-Network (Social-Ecological think-tanks network)
- European Environmental Bureau: https://eeb.org/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
1,170,628€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations, Grants
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Adessium Foundation 146,267€ Contribution Energy Transition Fund 104,543€ Contribution Isvara Foundation 150,000€ Contribution Open Society Foundation 129,570€ Contribution Polden Puckham Charity Fund 112,522€ Other financial info
Corporate Europe Observatory’s expenses for interest representation activities in 2023 were €504,369. It is very important that think tanks & NGOs are required to declare their lobby spending and we regret that the 2021-22 register revamp no longer requires this. As mentioned above, since November 2021 we declare all campaign and communications staff as working 50% of their working time on activities aimed at directly or indirectly influencing the EU institutions. This reflects our objectives and work.
In 2023 our grants income was received from these funders:
- Isvara Foundation, €150,000
- Adessium foundation, €146,267
- Open society foundation, €129,570
- Polden Puckham Charity Fund, €112,522
- Energy Transition Fund, €104,543
- Luminate / RESET, €70,166
- Olin gGmbH, €50,000
- Oak Foundation, €47,992
- European Climate Foundation, €41,756
- Fondation CL Mayer pour le Progress de l'Homme, €40,000
- Civitates, €30,000
- Global GreenGrants Foundation, €29,886
- Tides, €28,011
- Grassroots Foundation, €15,000
- Meliore Foundation, €15,000
- Combined Climate Funders, €12,000
- CS Marin, €11,360
Total: €1,034,073
In addition, we received these large contributions / donations in 2023 worth over €10,000:
Ms Karde-Marie Wirtz, €20,000
Our full accounts for 2008-2023 are available here: https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/CEO%202008-2023%20profits%20and%20losses.pdf
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Anti-corruption
Communication activities
Information on our events, campaigns, and publications is available on our website: http://corporateeurope.org/
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
19 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 28 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject Cost of living crisis Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Thor-Sten Vertmann (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 03 May 2022 Location Brussels Subject New Genomic Techinques Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 03 May 2022 Location Brussels Subject New genomic techniques Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 01 Mar 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Transparency register Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Nov 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Governance, hydrogen Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Joan Canton (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 11 May 2021 Location Brussels Subject VTC Meeting - New Genomic Techniques and Gene drives Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Transparency in tobacco lobbying Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Renate Nikolay (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 15 Jan 2021 Location Brussels Subject VC Meeting - Farm to Fork Strategy and GMOs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 26 Nov 2020 Location Virtual meeting Subject to discuss the PPP Circular Bio based Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Camilla Bursi (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Jun 2020 Location Brussels Subject VC-meeting on Farm to Fork Strategy and Pesticides. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member)
- Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 19 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Farm to Fork Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Giorgios Rossides (Cabinet member)
- Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member)
- Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject General Food Law Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject EU's Research Policy (Innovation Principle vs. Precautionary Principle) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject Transparency Register Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)
- Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 09 Dec 2016 Location Brussels Subject Acrylamide Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Glyphosate Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 May 2015 Location Berlaymont, Brussels, Belgium Subject Meeting with Corporate Europe on Commissioners code of Conduct Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Angelina Gros-Tchorbadjiyska (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject The Food Chain, Innovation and Challenges, Food Information to Consumers, Nutrition, and Food Waste, Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Plant Health Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet member)
- Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
- Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Meeting on principles of scientific advice Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Giulia Del Brenna (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists