Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,250,000€ - 1,499,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.25 Fte (8)
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
To improve health outcomes across society, EASO empowers, advocates and educates to research, prevent, diagnose, treat and manage the chronic disease of obesity along the life course.
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
EASO is in official relations with the WHO Regional Office for Europe and provides Expert Secretariats to the European Parliamentarian Interest group on Obesity & Resilient Health Systems as well as for the OPEN-EU (Obesity Policy Engagement Network – EU hub)
Address
Head Office
Molesworth House 1-2 South Frederick Street
Dublin 2 D02 N820
IRELANDEU Office
EASO Secretariat, The Library 10 Square Ambiorix
Brussesl 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 50% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.25
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 (WOD), 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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
WOF. European Biomedical Alliance. EU Health Coalition. OPEN EU, ECCO
Also, in official relations with the WHO Regional Office for Europe.Member organisations
EASO is a federation of 36 national obesity associations, representing approximately 7500 professional members and a community of 20,000 individuals. See http://easo.org/membership/
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,250,000€ - 1,499,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
1,250,000€ - 1,499,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Dissemination partner in ongoing EU projects SWEET, PROTEIN and TIMESPAN(H2020), and SOPHIA (IMI). Recent partner in FP7 projects MooDFOOD, DORIAN and Spotlight, and H2020 project NoHoW. Organiser of the annual European Congress on Obesity (ECO) and World Obesity Day Europe. 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.