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Overview

Lobbying Costs

37,500€

Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.75 Fte (5)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

2

High-level Commission meetings

7

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Citizen Action Service   (ECAS)

    EU Transparency Register

    47003483702-10 First registered on 04 Jun 2010

    Goals / Remit

    The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international non-profit organization, based in Brussels with a pan-European membership and 24 years of experience. ECAS’ objectives as defined in its statutes are to: strengthen the European strategy of NGOs in member and applicant countries of the European Union (EU), defend peoples’ free movement rights and promote a more inclusive European citizenship, campaign for transparency and institutional reforms to bring the EU closer to the citizen.

    ECAS provides services to a network of about 100 NGOs in Europe. It has a successful track record in providing advice and technical assistance to both CSOs and citizens on EU citizens’ rights enforcement and civic participation in the EU decision-making process (e.g. Your Europe Advice, EU Rights Clinic, ECI Support Centre, study visits, funding alerts).

    Consistent with its mission as defined in its statutes, ECAS’ activities in the last 24 years have been focused at fostering European citizenship and at improving conditions for civic and democratic participation at the EU level.

    Through Your Europe Advice, high quality advice is provided to EU citizens in order to help them exercise their right of free movement. This right is the one most highly valued by EU citizens, and ECAS’ service has successfully met the challenge of a continuously increasing number of questions in recent years.

    The EU Rights Clinic was launched in January 2013 as a not-for-profit service whose mission is to problem-solve difficult cases involving EU citizens and third country nationals through collective action and advocacy for the implementation of measures at both the EU level and in member states, in order to overcome visible and hidden barriers to European citizenship.

    The ECI Support Centre was made operational in June 2013 by a consortium of NGOs with different specializations in order to encourage democratic and civic participation of citizens at the Union level. ECAS coordinates the advice provided by them based on their expertise, which includes providing both specialized support to ECI organizers before and during the ECI process and policy analysis of the implementation of the ECI regulation at national and European levels.

    Through its funding alerts, monthly updates on EU news, consultations and events, and calls for proposals and tenders, ECAS enables the 100 members of its network to remain aware of EU developments.

    Main EU files targeted

    - Digital agenda

    - Reforms of the Transparency register

    - European Citizens' Initiative

    - Labour Mobility package

    - Free movement of EU citizens and their family members

    - Neighborhood policies

    - Enlargement

    Address

    Head Office
    Avenue de la Toison d'Or, 77
    Brussels 1060
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    5

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%2
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 14 Aug 2015

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Assya Kavrakova 05 Feb 2020 05 Feb 2021
    Ms Anna Zaremba 17 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021
    Ms Anna Zaremba 17 May 2018 17 May 2019
    Ms Assya Kavrakova 17 Mar 2018 16 Mar 2019
    Ms Claire Damilano 09 Jun 2017 24 May 2018
    Ms Zuzana PUNDOVA 30 Sep 2016 23 Sep 2017
    Ms Elisa Lironi 30 Sep 2016 22 Sep 2017
    Mr Huw Longton 30 Sep 2016 22 Sep 2017
    Ms Marta PONT GUIXA 15 Sep 2016 13 Sep 2017
    Ms Assya Kavrakova 30 Aug 2016 26 Aug 2017
    Ms Zuzana PUNDOVA 30 Sep 2015 28 Sep 2016
    Ms Claire Damilano 25 Sep 2015 23 Sep 2016
    Mr Tristan BARBER 24 Sep 2015 14 Sep 2016
    Ms Elisa Lironi 23 Sep 2015 21 Sep 2016
    Ms Assya Kavrakova 13 Aug 2015 10 Aug 2016
    Ms Marta PONT GUIXA 13 Aug 2015 10 Aug 2016
    Ms Claire Damilano 09 Jul 2014 07 Jul 2015
    Ms Vera Soldanova 05 Jul 2014 03 Jul 2015
    Mr Kenan Hadzimusic 03 Jul 2014 27 Jun 2015
    Ms Assya Kavrakova 24 Jun 2014 21 Jun 2015
    Ms Elisa Bruno 24 Jun 2014 21 Jun 2015
    Mr Anthony David Venables 15 Aug 2013 22 Jun 2014
    Pietro Emili 26 Apr 2013 24 Apr 2014
    Mr Anthony Venables 05 Jun 2012 02 Apr 2013
    Pietro Emili 13 Feb 2012 01 Mar 2013

    Complementary Information

    http://www.ecas.org/about-us/team/

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Assya Kavrakova (Director)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Ms Assya Kavrakova (Director)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    - EESC Liason Group

    - European Movement International

    - Europe+ alliance

    - Civil Society Europe

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    37,500€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    479,079 € (Source: European Commission grants)

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None

    ACC

    None

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    For detailed information about our activities in 2015, please consult the following link: http://www.ecas.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ECAS-Work-Program-2015.pdf

    Other activities

    The EU Rights Clinic: http://www.ecas.org/eu-rights/eu-rights-clinic/
    The ECI Support Centre: http://www.ecas.org/civic-engagement/eci-support-centre/
    TripleA for Citizens: http://tripleacitizens.eu/
    Your Europe Advice (YEA): http://europa.eu/youreurope/advice/index.htm
    Guide to European Funding for the Non-Profit Sector: http://www.ecas.org/resource-centre/eu-funding-advice/
    Right to Move campaign: http://www.righttomove.eu/

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    7 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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