Environmental Coalition on Standards

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

1,125,000€

Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

11.25 Fte (12)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

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 established in 2001 to enhance the voice of the environment within the European and international standardisation system.

    ECOS' mission is to ensure that European and international standards contribute to a better environmental performance of the economy in the European Union.

    ECOS' goal is to defend and promote the environmental interests in the development of standards at European and international level, especially those produced in support of European environmental laws and policies.

    More specifically, ECOS' objectives include:
    - 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 a Partner Organisation of CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization. ECOS is a member of ETSI. ECOS is also a “liaison organisation” to several technical bodies of the international counterparts of CEN and CENELEC, respectively ISO and IEC. ECOS participates to political and strategic developments within the standardisation organisations and contributes, mainly through nominated independent experts, to standardisation work on ECOS’ priorities. ECOS’ priority areas are climate change and clean energy, and the circular economy. Furthermore, ECOS works to promote balanced representation and effectve participation of societal stakeholders in the standardisation process.

    ECOS also represents the environmental interests in the implementation of European product ecolgocial policies, including the EU Ecodesign of Energy-related Products directive and the Energy Labelling directive. More specifically, ECOS brings the environmental expertise in the development of product-specific legal requriements for consumer and industrial products sold on the EU market with a view to enhance their ecological performance during their entire life-cycle. ECOS provides comments on the product-specific technical studies commissioned by the European Commissionm, participates in the Ecodesign Consultation Forum and contributes to the implementation process from the technical stage to the decision-making in “comitology” providing expertise and position papers to the Commission, Member States and the European Parliament.

    ECOS is the only environmental organisation specialised in standardisation and technical policies in the world.

    Main EU files targeted

    - Circular Economy
    - Climate change & clean energy
    - REFIT
    - Trade Policy

    More details about the objectives, priorities and activities in these work areas is available on www.ecostandard.org

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue d’Edimbourg, 26
    Mundo-B
    Brussels 1050
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    12

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%10
    75%1
    50%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    11.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 30 Mar 2018

    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

    Ms Laura Degallaix (Director)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Greg Archer (President)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    1. ECOS is a Partner Organisation of CEN, the European Committee for Standardization (EC Register Identification Number: 14168793342-48) and CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (EC Register Identification Number. 58258552517-56).

    It is ECOS’ core mission to represent the environmental NGOs (ENGOs) within the European Standardisation Bodies. “Representation” in that sense has two aspects:
    - Representing ENGOs in the technical bodies of CEN and CENELEC and contributing technical environmental expertise and positions in the standards development process,
    - Representing ENGOs in the governance structure of CEN and CENELEC.

    2. ECOS is a Member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI): http://www.etsi.org/membership/current-members

    2. ECOS is a “liaison organisation” to several technical committees and sub-committees of ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission.

    3. ECOS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ANEC, the European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation (EC Register Identification Number: 507800799-30).

    4. ECOS is an umbrella organisation founded to represent ENGOs in technical processes such as standardisation. Therefore some of its member organisations are networks themselves, such as WWF-EPO, T&E, EEB, FoEE etc, all registered in the EC Transparency Register.

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    1,125,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    1,017,269 € (Source: DG GROW/LIFE/H2020)

    Other financial info

    ECOS is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. ECOS 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)

    Commission's Expert Group on Integrated Product Policy #E00470 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=470 #Member #C#Eco-Design Consultation Forum/ Enterprise and Industry + Energy#E01798 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=1798 #Member #C#European Multi-Stakeholders Platform on ICT Standardisation#E02758 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2758 #Member #C#Smart Grids Task Force #E02892 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2892 #Member #C#Steering Committee#Consultation Forum according to Art. 23 of Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases#X03338 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3338 #Member #C#Bureau Energy Star#E01033 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=1033 #Member #C#Commission's Expert Group on Environmental Footprint#E03019 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3019 #Member #C

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    ECOS meets regularly with European Commission officials from DG GROW, DG ENV, DG CLIMA, & DG ENER relating to ecodesign and standardisation.

    ECOS carries out a range of communication activities in order to keep members and stakeholders up to date on our work.

    Through the ECOS website (www.ecostandard.org) updates on our work is regularly provided, alongside news concerning ECOS work areas. All of ECOS position papers are available on:
    http://ecostandard.org/?page_id=1762

    The Public ECOS Work Programme 2018, and Public Annual Report 2017 are available on the ECOS website.

    The ECOS Newsletter is released six times per year, and is sent out to our members and other subscribers. It is also publicly available through the ECOS website.

    ECOS has two social media accounts which are regularly updated, Twitter https://twitter.com/ECOS_Standard and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/ecos-eu.

    ECOS’ Members are also informed of the activities of the organisation through regular email updates.

    The 2017 ECOS Annual Workshop was held on the theme “Completing the circuit – Electronic products in a European circular economy”.

    In 2017 we held two webinars on standards to support the EU strategy on plastics in the context of a Circular Economy, and on Ecodesign and material efficiency standards.

    In 2017 we organised two national workshops, respectively in Portugal and Belgium, on the role of civil society in standardisation.

    Other activities

    1. Standardisation

    ECOS works with the European institutions and the standardisation community in areas related to the EU regulatory approach to standardisation, the EU standardisation policy, as well as the integration of environmental aspects in standardisation. Among other, we contribute to the development of EC standardisation requests (mandates) in support of European environmental laws and policies. We also promote and defend the representation and effective participation of societal stakeholders in standardisation.

    2. Ecodesign
    In the area of Ecodesign, ECOS works to ensure an ambitious Ecodesign and Energy Labelling policy framework. We also work closely with the Commission DGs running the Ecodesign-product preparatory studies as well as with the European Council and the European Parliament on the development of Ecodesign and Energy Labelling product-specific implementing measures.

  • 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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