Environmental Coalition on Standards

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

225,000€

Financial year: Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

None declared

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

18

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Environmental Citizens' Organisation for Standardisation   (ECOS)

    EU Transparency Register

    96668093651-33 First registered on 21 May 2010

    Goals / Remit

    ECOS was created in 2001 to enhance the voice of the environment within the (European and international) standardisation system. Its objective is essentially of a non-profit-making nature. Its goal is to promote the protection of the environment while standards are developed in standardisation bodies established at international, European Union, European Free Trade Association and Member State level, including in accession countries, so that these bodies can actively contribute to a better environmental performance of the economy in the European Union. The standards concerned are those developed by European or national standardisation bodies as a result of legislation or delegation of powers by the European Commission (e.g. Commission Mandates under the New Legislative Framework for products) as well as the standards that are developed within those standardisation bodies without a mandate from public authorities. More specifically, the objective of ECOS is:
    - to represent European and national environmental organisations at technical and decision-making level within the international and European standardisation process;
    - to cooperate with the EU Commission and other stakeholders in the relevant standardisation bodies;
    - to coordinate the environmental associations’ contribution to the enhancement of environmental aspects in the standardisation process at international, European and national levels;
    - to promote and assess the integration of environmental aspects into standards with the purpose of reducing negative environmental impacts;
    - to assess the quality of standardisation processes and discuss with European Union decision-makers on the basis of these assessments;
    - to protect the interests of the environment in the work of the standardisation bodies;
    - to contribute to the improvement of consumer choice by providing a wider array of environmentally sound products;
    - to disseminate information about relevant standardisation processes among environmental organisations;
    - to promote the active involvement of environmental organisations in standardisation matters at national level and between national, European and international levels;
    - to promote the EU legal provisions that support the integration of environmental interests in a structural manner in the European Union standardisation process and policies.
    ECOS is an associate member of CEN, the European Committee for Standardization and a co-operating partner of CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization. ECOS is also a “liaison organisation” to several technical bodies of ISO and IEC. Thanks to the memberships in CEN and CENELEC, ECOS has access to all their technical committees and sends experts to participate in standards development work. Furthermore, ECOS works on improving the framework for public interest stakeholders in standardisation. It is the only environmental organisation worldwide working to such a degree of detail and on such a wide number of issues on standardisation.
    Since 2007 ECOS also represents the environmental movement in the implementation of the EU's Ecodesign (of Energy related Products) directive. This process launched in 2005 is progressively setting mandatory legislation on the main products sold on the market to enhance their ecological performance.
    ENGOs are actively involved in monitoring this process and ensuring it delivers with the highest possible level of ambition. We are reviewing the technical studies and providing comments and suggestions on each product covered by the European Institutions. ECOS has a seat in the consultation forum (as well as three other ENGOs, with which ECOS cooperates closely). It monitors the implementation process from the technical stage to the decision-making in “comitology” giving its input to Commission, MS and EP. As in standardisation ECOS is the European umbrella organisation coordinating and enhancing the input of ENGOs into the ecodesign-process.

    Main EU files targeted

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue d’Edimbourg
    Brussels 1050
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    None declared

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Apr 2012

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Martina FORBICINI 08 Mar 2024 07 Mar 2025
    Ms Emily BEST 30 Jan 2024 29 Jan 2025
    Mr Luca Boniolo 05 Dec 2023 04 Dec 2024
    Mr Fernando TARTAGLIA 22 Nov 2023 21 Mar 2024
    Mr Joao ANTONUCCI REZENDE 22 Nov 2023 20 May 2024
    Mr Joao ANTONUCCI REZENDE 31 Aug 2023 22 Nov 2023
    Mr Michael Edward Wipperman NEAVES 21 Jul 2023 18 Nov 2023
    Ms Martina FORBICINI 21 Jul 2023 01 Feb 2024
    Ms Valeria Carlotta BOTTA 24 May 2023 23 May 2024
    Ms Rita TEDESCO 24 May 2023 23 May 2024
    Ms Margaux Louise A LE GALLOU 18 May 2023 17 May 2024
    Mr Erwin CORNELIS 17 May 2023 18 Nov 2023
    Ms Luka DE BRUYCKERE 17 May 2023 16 May 2024
    Ms Federica POZZI 17 May 2023 16 May 2024
    Ms Fanny RATEAU NEE GROSSIN 17 May 2023 16 May 2024
    Ms Emily BEST 21 Jan 2023 20 Jan 2024
    Mr Mathias Falkenberg 13 Jan 2023 13 Jan 2024
    Mr Andrew Murphy 27 Oct 2022 05 May 2023
    Mr Mathieu Rama 24 Sep 2022 23 Sep 2023
    Ms Ioana POPESCU 22 Apr 2022 22 Apr 2023
    Mr Erwin CORNELIS 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Carolina KORONEN 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Valeria Carlotta BOTTA 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Rita TEDESCO 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Mr Michael Edward NEAVES 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Margaux Louise A LE GALLOU 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Luka DE BRUYCKERE 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Federica POZZI 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Fanny RATEAU NEE GROSSIN 21 Apr 2022 21 Apr 2023
    Ms Melissa ZILL 08 Feb 2020 06 Feb 2021
    Mr Ernestas Oldyrevas 02 Oct 2019 01 Oct 2020
    Ms Ioana POPESCU 27 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2020
    Ms CHLOE FAYOLE 22 Jan 2019 22 Jan 2020
    Ms Melissa ZILL 22 Jan 2019 22 Jan 2020
    Ms Ioana POPESCU 22 Jun 2018 22 Jun 2019
    Mr Justin WILKES 31 Oct 2015 29 Oct 2016
    Mr ALUN JONES 31 Oct 2015 29 Oct 2016
    Mr Stamatis SIVITOS 10 Jul 2015 07 Jul 2016
    Mrs Dania CRISTOFARO 08 Jun 2013 08 Jun 2014
    Mrs Blanca Morales Bailon 27 Feb 2013 17 Jun 2013
    Mrs Dania CRISTOFARO 03 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    None declared

    Person with legal responsibility

    Ms Dania Cristofaro (Pollution Control Officer)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    225,000€

    Other financial info

    ECOS is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. It believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, to provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow guidelines developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU that reflect the advice of professionals working on lobby transparency as well as relevant aspects of US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our lobbying expenses, and a complete list of anyone who, in the name or on behalf of ECOS carries out activities with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None declared

    Communication activities

    None declared

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    18 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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