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Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

2,289,103€

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Integrating civic freedoms’ protections in digital-related regulation, AI Act, DSA: As part of a broad CSO coalition, we have been calling for safeguards to protect against the misuse of AI systems, and the involvement of civil society in AI policy processes. (e.g.: https://ecnl.org/news/eu-governments-vote-final-text-eu-ai-act-whats-stake; Reclaim Your Face campaign; https://ecnl.org/publications/human-rights-impact-assessments-are-key-effective-dsa-enforcement) We are members of the EU AI (http://ecnl.org/ecnl-joins-the-european-ai-alliance/) ECNL provided input in the development of the EU Ethics Guidelines.

Furthering EU policies to help shape an enabling environment for civil society in developing countries. ECNL engages with EU bodies in following up to the EP 2017 Resolution and the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024, to develop tools to detect early signs of closing civic space, including the use of digital technologies and counter-terrorism measures. ECNL also provided expertise to DG DEVCO to develop case studies on how EU delegations can address enabling environment issues.

Civic space within the EU. We supported the EP work on civic space: ECNL contributed to the EP report on shrinking civil society space in developing countries. ECNL also participated in EP hearings on this topic: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20160706IPR35887/committee-on-development-and-subcommittee-on-human-rights We also assisted the EP Greens’ draft of initial proposal for EU minimum standards for CSO’s internal market and their subsequent report on EU proposal for a European Cross-Border Association Directive. We advocate for
the importance of EU institutions investing in strengthening social and civil dialogue: https://ecnl.org/news/new-project-enhance-cso-and-citizen-participation-eu-decision-making We created a handbook on how EU law can be used to protect civic space: https://ecnl.org/publications/updated-handbook-how-use-eu-law-protect-civic-space

EU AML policies. ECNL with partners provided expertise to the EC and facilitated a wider exchange between nonprofits regarding the EU assessment of the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing affecting the internal market and cross-border activities. In addition, we contributed to the EU Supra National Risk Assessments in 2017 and 2019. Further, we raised awareness about challenges CSOs face as EU countries transpose the EU AML Directive. We collected evidence and analysed data, and presented the findings to the Commission.

Data protection: ECNL analysed how the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation affects the CSO sector: http://ecnl.org/data-protection-fundraising/

Joint submission on the Defence of Democracy package: https://ecnl.org/news/defending-democracy-clarity

Anti-SLAPP Directive: We are members of The CASE Coalition. https://www.the-case.eu/

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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.

• Date	20 Nov 2023	Location	videoconference
  Subject	AI Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Civic Forum Civil Liberties Union for Europe

• Date	06 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President) Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member) Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Movement International European Youth Forum Civil Society Europe Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust European Foundation Centre Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union European Civic Forum European Endowment for Democracy European Partnership for Democracy Democracy International e.V. The Innovation in Politics Institute GmbH Association Européenne pour la Démocratie Locale Front Line Defenders The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association

• Date	20 Jan 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Scope of the EU AI Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)

• Date	11 Jan 2023	Location	video conference
  Subject	artificial intelligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
  Portfolio	Justice
  Attending	Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Nov 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Artificial Intelligence Act.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)