Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Counter Balance (CB)
EU Transparency Register
02902955023-04 First registered on 17 Jan 2011
Goals / Remit
Counter Balance is a European coalition of development and environmental non-governmental organisations, formed in 2007 to specifically challenge the European Investment Bank. The groups involved have extensive experience working on development finance and the international financial institutions (IFIs) as well as campaigning to prevent negative impacts resulting from major infrastructure projects.
Counter Balance's mission is to make the EIB an open and progressive institution delivering on EU development goals and promoting sustainable development to empower people affected by its work.
Counter Balance includes members from:
* Central and Eastern Europe: CEE Bankwatch Network
* France: les Amis de la Terre
* Germany: urgewald
* Italy: Re:Common
* Netherlands: BothEnds
* Spain: ODG
* United Kingdom: Bretton Woods Project, The Corner House, Platform LondonMain EU files targeted
- Annual resolutions of the EP on EIB activities
- European Fund for Strategic Investments
- InvestEU
- External Lending Mandate of the EIB
- European External Investment Plan (EFSD)
- NDICI
- Natural Capital Financial Facility
- Tax issues and anti-money laundering policies
- European Green DealAddress
Head Office
Heřmanova 1088/8
Prague 17000
CZECH REPUBLICEU Office
26 rue d'Edimbourg
Ixelles 1050
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 25 May 2020
Name Start date End Date Mr Frank VANAERSCHOT 09 Sep 2022 09 Sep 2023 Mr Paul CREENEY 09 Sep 2022 09 Sep 2023 Clara BOURGIN 26 Sep 2020 25 Sep 2021 Xavier SOL 12 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021 Mr Jan CALLEWAERT 27 Nov 2019 27 Nov 2020 Xavier SOL 21 Feb 2019 12 Feb 2020 Xavier SOL 11 Jan 2018 10 Jan 2019 Xavier SOL 26 Jan 2017 11 Jan 2018 Ms Adriana Antonietta Paradiso 16 Mar 2016 15 Mar 2017 Xavier SOL 28 Jan 2016 26 Jan 2017 Mr Berber Verpoest 02 Apr 2015 31 Mar 2016 Xavier SOL 11 Feb 2015 28 Jan 2016 Xavier SOL 20 Feb 2014 03 Mar 2015 Mr Berber Verpoest 20 Feb 2014 03 Mar 2015 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
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Alter EU
Member organisations
CEE Bankwatch Network,
urgewald,
Action Aid (Bretton Woods Project),
Re: Common,
Friends of the Earth France,
Both Ends,
ODG,
Platform London,
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
78,196 € (Source: EuropeAid)
Other financial info
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, Counter Balance has calculated that it spent an estimated 43,000 € (25 % of our total budget) in 2019 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
In relation to above-mentioned processes, Counter Balance publishes reports and analysis, and provides decision-makers with recommendations on the design and expected impact of financial instruments designed at EU level.
Other activities
On behalf of Counter Balance the persons listed below have had, during the reporting period, four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 50 percent or more of their working time on behalf of Counter Balance carrying out such activities:
Xavier Sol, Director
Jan Callewart, media and communication officer
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 26 Jul 2023 Location video call Subject EU Export Credit Agencies and the Green Deal Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Olivia Gippner (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 08 May 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EFSI Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists