European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting

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Overview

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.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3.75 Fte (8)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

5

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting   (ECNL)

    EU Transparency Register

    052513138393-62 First registered on 09 Jun 2020

    Goals / Remit

    The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL) is an established leader on civil society law and policy working across 28 countries and 4 regions. Our mission is to create legal and policy environments that enable individuals, movements and organisations to exercise and protect their civic freedoms, and to put into an action transformational ideas that address national and global challenges. We envision a space in which everyone can exercise their rights freely, work in solidarity and shape their societies. ECNL’s strategic goals for 2020-2023 are: (1) Defending civic freedoms through knowledge, strategies and tools, (2) Empowering activists and organisations to protect and expand civic freedoms through joint actions; (3) Strengthening global, regional and national policies, laws and standards to safeguard civic freedoms. ECNL team of experts have over 20 years of experience in promoting CSO law reform and have provided support that has directly and positively influ (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    Integrating civic freedoms’ protections in AI-related regulation; Involvement on policy level to support the monitoring of the enabling environment of civil society and fundamental rights in EU and its external policies; Anti-money laundering; Data protection. (See below for details)._
    ECNL collaborates with EU institutions and European CSO networks to promote better policies regarding the enabling legal environment and funding by the EU for CSOs. In the past we have provided expertise to a number of public consultations, collaborated with the EU institutions in promoting enabling legal environment issues, addressing issues concerning availability and accessibility of the EU funding for CSOs and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing initiatives.

    Address

    Head Office
    Riviervismarkt 5
    The Hague 2513 AM
    NETHERLANDS
    EU Office
    Riviervismarkt 5
    The Hague 2513 AM
    NETHERLANDS

    Website

    http://ecnl.org

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    8

    Employment timeLobbyists
    75%2
    50%3
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3.75

    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

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    The Global NPO Coalition on FATF: www.fatfplatform.org
    Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum: http://eap-csf.eu/
    European Social Enterprise Law Association: http://esela.eu/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    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.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    1,167,603€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Public financing, EU funding, Grants

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution Swedish International Development Agency 525,241€
    Contribution Open Society Foundation 180,859€
    Contribution European Union 208,960€
    Contribution Sigrid Rausing Trust 105,657€
    Contribution United States Agency for International Development 90,344€
    Contribution Ford Foundation 27,000€
    Contribution International Center for Not-for-Profit Law 26,000€
    Grant Grant contract No ENI/2015/362-048 ("Monitoring progress empowering action") grant awarded from the European Union. 208,960€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Integrating civic freedoms’ protections in AI related regulation. On the EU-level, as members of the European Artificial Intelligence Alliance, (http://ecnl.org/ecnl-joins-the-european-ai-alliance/) ECNL provided input in the development of the EU Ethics Guidelines . The Guidelines explicitly recognize that a trustworthy AI must be grounded in fundamental rights and that the protection of freedoms of association and assembly contribute to forming a basis for such trustworthy AI.

    Furthering European Union policies to help shape an enabling environment for civil society in developing countries. ECNL engages with EU bodies on the need to follow up with the implementation of the European Parliament 2017 Resolution addressing enabling environment in developing countries and the March 2020 EU action plan on human rights and democracy, which specifies the need to develop tools to detect and respond to early signs of closing civic space and space for civil society, including the use of digital technologies and counter-terrorism measures, building on best practice and support efforts to counter it, as well as tools to monitor opportunities of opening civic space.

    ECNL also provided expertise to DG DEVCO to develop case studies on how EU delegations can address enabling environment issues: https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/article/promoting-conducive-environment-civil-society-partner-countries-%E2%80%93-new-case-studies-released- and https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/public-governance-civilsociety/document/marco-regulat%C3%B3rio-j%C3%A1-case-study-setting-regulatory-framework-partnership-between-civil-soci

    ECNL provided suggestions during consultation meeting and a written input into the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024 https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/10101/2020/EN/JOIN-2020-5-F1-EN-ANNEX-1-PART-1.PDF
    Supporting 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

    EU law used to protect civic space: wrote a ground-breaking Handbook to provide practical guidance for CSOs to advocate and litigate using EU law to protect their civic freedoms. https://ecnl.org/publications/the-eu-law-handbook-is-out/

    EU AML policies. ECNL and its partners provided expertise and submissions to the EC in the process of conducting the EU assessment of the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing affecting the internal market and relating to cross-border activities. ECNL with its partners provided expertise through submissions and public consultations, facilitated a wider exchange between non-profits at the EU level. 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 Anti-Money Laundering 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/

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    5 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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