Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz e.V. (DRK)
EU Transparency Register
433616222895-66 First registered on 16 Aug 2016
Goals / Remit
In Germany, the core activities of the German Red Cross
(GRC) focus on welfare and social work, health programmes, which include the provision of first aid and
ambulance services, national level disaster reparedness,
youth work and public advocacy on humanitarian
issues. The GRC is a member of the Federal Working
Group of Voluntary Welfare Organisations (BAGFW)*1.
This group comprises six of the largest German welfare
organisations, representing more than 90,000 social and
welfare services, with more than 1.3 million employees.
The German Red Cross has a federal structure that
includes:
19 regional branches 500 district branches
4.500 local branches
31 nurses‘ associations
1 federation of nurses‘ associations
> 10,000 community and technical committees
6 blood transfusion Centers with
1.7 Mio blood donators
Various GRC activities are implemented by the
410,000 volunteers and the more than 158,000 fulltime
staff. More than 3 Mio GRC members support their
organisation financially or in non-material ways.
The General Secretariat (further called headquarter) in Berlin represents the German Red Cross in all its activities on national and international Levels. It is as well responsible for all of the National Society‘s activities abroad.
Regional or local GRC branches may also run activities in other countries but must coordinate these with national headquarter in Berlin and the partner National Society.
In emergency, rehabilitation or development cooperation, the GRC coordinates with other components of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. In the majority of cases, the GRC cooperates with a Red Cross or Red Crescent partner National Society on a bilateral basis. Red Cross consortia of several National Societies and multilateral cooperation even with organisations outside the Movement also occur, but less frequently.
Every GRC intervention abroad presupposes a request
of the National Society in the country concerned. GRC
activities are always based on its own strategy and the strategic planning of the partner and pursue two aims:
• Support the most vulnerable people in the
partner countries in order to improve their living
conditions and contribute to sustainable local
development and resilience of the population.
• Support the partner National Societies in their
organisational development and capacity building
with regard to their services for the vulnerable. This
contributes to the strengthening of the civil Society in the Partner country.
The GRC works in more than 50 countries worldwide.
The main focus of activities is on:
• Emergency response and disaster management
• Rehabilitation and reconstruction
• Development of key sectors: Disaster risk reduction
and adaptation to climate change; health;
water and sanitation and livelihood programmes.
The concepts of strengthening Resilience of the most vulnerable and better linking relief, rehabilitation and development play a vital role in international GRC cooperation.Main EU files targeted
The European Consensus on Development, based on the SDGs.
The European Consensus on Humanitarian AidAddress
Head Office
DRK Generalsekretariat
Carstennstr.58
Berlin 12205
GERMANY -
People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
GRC has one staff for the cooperation with EU as donor in the International Cooperation department.
In other departments, the social welfare department and the disaster preparedness and response department, there are at least 4 other persons dealing with EU relevant topics. But not all of them work exclusively for EU issues. Therefore we could talk about 4 People working for 25%.Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Silvia Sanz-Ramos (Referentin Zuwendungsgeber)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Christian Reuter (Generalsekretär)
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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
The German Red Cross is member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies.
http://www.ifrc.org/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
10,485,040 € (Source: ECHO)
Other financial info
The GRC income is calculated based on ECHO contracts and based on the headquarter annual financial report 2017, as well to be found in the GRC Annual Report 2017.
For the calculation of the 'annual costs related to activities covered by the Register' for the year 2017, we have now used a rough estimate cost for all operational and policy departments such as International cooperation, International law and institutions; Complex Relief Service, Voluntary Service and Crisis Management, who are working in EU register related areas. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
The German Red Cross is member of the Red Cross EU Office, based in Brussels, whose role is to represent the member EU Red Cross National Societies vis-à-vis European institutions.
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 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 19 Dec 2023 Location Online Subject Exchange with the German Red Cross from Lower Saxony and a Colonel from the German civilian-military cooperation focusing on possible areas of European civil protection cooperation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Attending - Olaf Deussen (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Oct 2023 Location Online Subject Exchange with MEP Düpont and DE Lower Saxony Red Cross on civil protection Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Portfolio Crisis Management Attending - Olaf Deussen (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jan 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Meeting on EU and Red Cross activities in response to the pandemic as well as social protection and inclusion in addressing the effects of the crisis. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
- Ivana McDowell (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 02 Apr 2020 Location Skype meeting Subject Discussion related with COVID-19 response DG European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Attending - Paraskevi Michou (Director-General)
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Date 19 Jan 2018 Location Berlin Subject EU Civil Protection Mechanism - revision of the legislation / Registration of Red Cross assets / German Red Cross partnership DG European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Attending - Monique Pariat (Director-General)