Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Digital Policy Alliance (EURIM) (DPA)
EU Transparency Register
410844419741-74 First registered on 03 Dec 2015
Goals / Remit
Digital Policy Alliance (EURIM) objectives as embedded in the company articles, are as follows:
● to collate, examine, review, interpret and disseminate information including, but not limited to, European Union (EU) Directives, Regulations and policy proposals, United Kingdom (“UK”) legislation and policy in the field of Information Technology (“IT”);
● to facilitate effective collection, scrutiny, monitoring, consultation and dissemination of information on the development and implementation of IT-related EU and UK initiatives;
● to provide all interested parties with clear, concise, accurate, balanced and timely information on European IT related matters;
● to engage in activities which may further the education, development and understanding of IT within the UK, the EC and Europe.
● to improve understanding of the development and implementation of IT-related European and UK initiatives for the public benefit of industry and commerceMain EU files targeted
With our members the Digital Policy Alliance (EURIM):
● Cuts across organisational and sectoral boundaries to suggest and review proposals for government policy, legislation and regulation in Europe and the UK.
● Scrutinises upcoming EU and UK policy, directives and regulations through a technology lens to alert policy makers in both Brussels and the UK to the nature of any unintended consequences arising from IT.
● Produces impartial, summary policy overviews and position papers related to technology related policy for the Westminster and Brussels communities.
● Works closely in specialist groups with its industry members to provide a neutral, balanced and diverse meeting point to identify the consequences to citizens and business of the use of technologies and to inform policy – typically in advance of these issues reaching mainstream debate. Where we can achieve consensus we work to help secure priority for action. If there is no consensus, the reasons are explained and we outline the complexities and differing viewpoints under discussion.
● Facilitates members' recognition and understanding of the issues involved, and the inter‐play between sources of evidence and opinion, policy priorities, intentions and deliberations, and the regulatory agenda. The policies or positions supported by the Digital Policy Alliance are arrived at through a process of balanced and detailed deliberation supported by the considered outputs of our specialist Working Groups and guided by our members' priorities.Address
Head Office
The White House
57-63 Church Road
London SW19 5FSB
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The secretariat and research to back up our work is undertaken by contracted experts assigned to each working group. We do not employ any full time research staff.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Malcolm Harbour (Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Merlin Earl of Erroll (Chairman)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Other organisations
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Networking
Affiliation
We are not members of any organisation
Member organisations
https://www.dpalliance.org.uk/people/members/
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
EU grant income for closed financial year
35,024 € (Source: DG COMM/LON/2014/04)
Other financial info
Budget Estimate - c 7000 Euros
Calculation - percentage of overall DPA activities per person
Funding sourced from 2014 turnover of 65405 Euros -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Our recent work has been focused on the Commission's Digital Single market policy initiative. We have organised a specialist member working group and submitted reports to the European Commission, UK Ministers and the House of Lords. Since 2012 we have held regular reviews of the Draft General Data Protection Regulation.
In partnership with E-Radar (http://www.eradar.eu/) , the DPA successfully won a modest EU Commission grant to fund a project (DigiChampz - www.digichampz.com), to examine how a community in rural Yorkshire uses the Internet and IT. A report was submitted in August 2015. A major aim is to take steps to establish a network of local digital champions who can act as professional mentors, ambassadors and points of contact for businesses,
community organisations and citizens.
NoneACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
Greeting MEPs from the European Internet Forum visiting London on 23rd to 25th of September 2015 for a study visit. The 3‐day programme comprised a busy schedule focused on what the UK Government is doing to support high‐tech start‐ups, with a speech by the Right Honourable Ed Vaizey, the UK minister responsible for the Digital Single Market.
Communication activities
We are engaged in all aspects of EU policy and legislative work in the broad digital economy. We examine Commission strategy proposals and specific legislation. In response to the priorities identified by members, we establish specialist working groups to examine and report on specific legislative and non legislative initiatives.
Other activities
We do not participate in any formal consultation forums or monitor legislative activities directly
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Meetings
1 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 09 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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