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
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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
NETHERLANDSEU Office
Riviervismarkt 5
The Hague 2513 AM
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 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
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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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
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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
Grants, Public financing, EU funding
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount 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
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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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Date 20 Nov 2023 Location videoconference Subject AI Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Jul 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of Democracy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
- Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - European Endowment for Democracy
- The Innovation in Politics Institute GmbH
- European Foundation Centre
- Front Line Defenders
- European Partnership for Democracy
- European Movement International
- Civil Society Europe
- European Civic Forum
- Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust
- Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union
- Democracy International e.V.
- Association Européenne pour la Démocratie Locale
- The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
- European Youth Forum
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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)
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Date 11 Jan 2023 Location video conference Subject artificial intelligence Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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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)
- Meetings