Overview
Lobbying Costs
450,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)
EU Transparency Register
020025124702-06 First registered on 24 Nov 2016
Goals / Remit
Mission: To reduce the burden of unhealthy weight
The Objectives of EASO are:
- To establish obesity as an urgent and relevant health and wellbeing priority
- To develop evolving evidence-based approaches for preventing and treating obesity across the lifespan
- To promote effective solutions through research, education and policy.Main EU files targeted
Member of the EU Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. member of the JPI HDHL Stakeholder Advisory Board. Occational participant in JRC and JANPA consultations.
Address
Head Office
8 Waldegrave Road
Teddington TW11 8GT
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
The Library
10 Square Ambiorix
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 50% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
EASO employs a small core team and outsources services on a project basis. This limits financial liability on the charity and maintains flexibility. Outsourced services include website maintenance, communications/PR (EOD), congress management.
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
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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
WOF. European Biomedical Alliance. EU Health Coalition.
Also, in official relations with the WHO Regional Office for Europe.Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
450,000€
Other financial info
EASO has 4 funding sources:
Membership Fees
Congress Fees (surplus)
Corporate Membership/Partnerships
Research Project Budget Contributions -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health#E00845 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=845 #Member #C
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Dissemination partner in ongoing EU projects NoHoW, SWEET and PROTEIN (H2020), and SOPHIA (IMI). Recent partner in FP7 projects MooDFOOD, DORIAN and Spotlight. Organiser of the annual European Congress on Obesity (ECO) and European Obesity Day (EOD). Coordinator of network of specialist multidisciplinary treatment centres. EASO publishes position statements and guidelines in Obesity Facts (OFA), see http://easo.org/education-portal/guidelines/. Member of EU Health Coalition and Biomed Alliance.
Other activities
Established in 1986, EASO is a federation of professional membership associations from 36 European countries. It is the voice of the European obesity community, representing scientists, health care practitioners, physicians, public health experts, early career researchers, students and patients. EASO is in formal relations with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, coordinates the EU Obesity Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) and is a member of the EU Health Coalition and the Biomedical Alliance in Europe.
EASO promotes action through collaboration in research, education and policy- Meetings
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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