Europäisches Zentrum für Presse- und Medienfreiheit

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

1,125,000€

Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

10.25 Fte (11)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

12

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Europäisches Zentrum für Presse- und Medienfreiheit   (ECPMF)

    EU Transparency Register

    823710129179-63 First registered on 14 Dec 2017

    Goals / Remit

    The ECPMF promotes the implementation of the European Charter on Freedom of the Press in all European countries. This charter was adopted and signed in 2009 and formulates in ten articles, principles for the freedom of the press and media. The ECPMF helps shaping a common European media space and supports, defends, elaborates and expands pan-European media freedom. Freedom of the press and media is of vital importance for democratically organised states and open societies. Attacks on freedom of the media are attacks on freedom itself. The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) was founded as an independent, non-profit European Co-operative Society ("societas cooperativa Europaea", SCE). The purpose of the SCE, which shall operate exclusively on a non-profit basis in the Federal Republic of Germany and other European countries, particularly in the European Union, is therefore the promotion, preservation and defence of freedom of the press and media by:

    (a) operating a centre to monitor violations of freedom of the press and media, the principles of which are anchored in the European Charter on Freedom of the Press;
    (b) providing concrete and altruistic aid to defend against attacks on freedom of the press and media and to support the people and organisations affected thereby;
    (c) informing the public and policymakers in Europe about violations of freedom of the press and media;
    (d) organising suitable initiatives for the defence and enforcement of free media;
    (e) cooperating with persons and organisations who are working on a non-profit basis for the cause of free media;
    (f) creating scientific analyses concerning the implementation, endangering and violation of freedom of the press and media in individual countries and in Europe as a whole;
    (g) educating and training media professionals for the promotion of freedom of press and media;
    (h) holding conventions and other events which serve the purposes of the ECPMF;
    (i) awarding prizes and other distinctions to persons and organisations who have made an outstanding contribution to free media.

    Main EU files targeted

    The ECPMF acknowledges the role of the EU members states on a national level in matters of media policy. However, it stresses the importance of the EU in this issue. The ECPMF, together with its partners, closely observes EU initiatives, strategies and legislative processes inter alia on whistle-blowing protection, data protection, defamation, access to information, public-service broadcasting, (self-)censorship, and financing of journalism.

    Address

    Head Office
    Menckestraße 27
    Leipzig 04155
    GERMANY
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    11

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%9
    75%1
    50%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    10.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    “Forum Media and Development” (Forum Medien und Entwicklung) - http://fome.info/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    1,125,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    635,620 € (Source: Projektverträge, European Commission)

    Other financial info

    The ECPMF is in charge of the ECPMF- Preparatory Action as co-ordinator. The current project value funding by the EU is shared between 6 project organisations.

    Additional funding is given by the Freestate of Saxony, the city of Leipzig on a subnational level and the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig and National Endowment for Democracy.

    Except the support of the Media Foundation all fundings are project related.

    As an SCE the ECPMF has no annual membership fees. Instead members pay a 100,- EUR fee to buy a share and become member. The amount of shares is not correlating with the amount of votes in the General Meeting - one member = one vote.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    The ECPMF is facilitating activities according to actual needs. The Centre carries out advocacy, diplomatic and lobbying initiatives, with the aim for better awareness, regulations and legal initiatives for the protection of journalists. In “Fact-finding missions” the ECPMF conducts research and analyses on-the-spot in cooperation with partners, experts and affected people in the country after which it drafts recommendations, petitions and statements to the EU and its member states. Besides making concrete demands, the Centre also offers expertise on media freedom and media policy to political stakeholders. Through its website, social media, newsletter, events, solidarity actions and campaigns, the ECPMF aims to raise awareness for media freedom violations on a pan-European scale and tries to keep media freedom on the political agenda.

    Other activities

    The statutory bodies of ECPMF are the General Meeting, the Executive Board, and the Supervisory Board. The General Meeting represents the highest body of ECPMF and consists of the co-operative member.

    The ECPMF is currently funded through project funding. The main project is the Media Freedom Rapid Response funded by the European Commission, the Free State of Saxony, the City of Leipzig and the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig. It also received project related funding from the Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Germany, the Federal Foreign Office Germany and the National Endowment for Democracy.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    12 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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