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Overview

Lobbying Costs

23,356€

Financial year: Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.25 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

2

High-level Commission meetings

23

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Foundation Centre   (EFC)

    EU Transparency Register

    78855711571-12 First registered on 23 Apr 2009

    Goals / Remit

    The European Foundation Centre (EFC) is an international association of foundations and corporate funders dedicated to creating an enabling legal and fiscal environment for foundations, documenting the foundation landscape, strengthening the infrastructure of the sector, and promoting collaboration, both among foundations and between foundations and other actors, to advance the public good in Europe and beyond.
    Established in 1989 by seven of Europe's leading foundations, the EFC currently has a core membership of more than 200 members and associates, spread across over 30 countries.

    The EFC has established a range of Interest Groups and Forums which facilitate cooperation and exchanges of good practice among foundations across a wide range of fields of activity including: diversity, migration and integration; human rights and disability; protection of the environment; science and research; social investment; Central and Eastern Europe.
    Membership of the Centre implies commitment to the EFC brand. Members agree to adhere to the EFC Principles of Good Practices, http://www.efc.be/about/principles-of-good-practice/
    For more information about the EFC and its members, please see www.efc.be

    Main EU files targeted

    Company law legislation
    Disability strategy and implementation
    Roma strategy and implementation
    Indirect taxation - revision of VAT Directive
    Review of Antimoney Laundering Directive
    Structural Funds regulation - implementation of partnership principle

    Address

    Head Office
    rue Royale, 94
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 14 Apr 2016

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Hanna SURMATZ 07 Mar 2020 06 Mar 2021
    Ms Nikoleta BITTEROVA 06 Dec 2019 05 Dec 2020
    Ms Maria Orejas 06 Feb 2019 01 Mar 2020
    Ms Hanna SURMATZ 06 Feb 2019 01 Mar 2020
    Ms Hanna SURMATZ 13 Feb 2018 06 Feb 2019
    Ms Maria Orejas 09 Feb 2018 06 Feb 2019
    Ms Marilena VRANA 09 Feb 2018 08 Feb 2019
    Ms Emamnuelle Faure 28 Feb 2017 27 Oct 2017
    Ms Emamnuelle Faure 27 Feb 2016 26 Feb 2017
    Ms Maria Orejas 26 Jan 2017 25 Jan 2018
    Ms Marilena VRANA 23 Jan 2017 18 Jan 2018
    Emamnuelle Faure 27 Feb 2016 25 Feb 2017
    Ms Emmanuelle Faure 25 Feb 2015 23 Feb 2016
    Ms Giulia Lombardi 27 Feb 2015 25 Feb 2016
    Ms Emmanuelle Faure 04 Mar 2014 03 Mar 2015
    Mrs Emmanuelle Faure 04 Mar 2014 27 Jan 2015
    Mrs Emmanuelle Faure 12 Apr 2013 04 Mar 2014
    Ms Giulia Lombardi 05 Apr 2013 04 Apr 2014
    Ms Giulia Lombardi 26 Jun 2012 06 Apr 2013
    Mrs Emmanuelle Faure 29 Mar 2012 12 Apr 2013

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Emmanuelle Faure (Eu affairs senior officer)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Gerry Salole (Chief Executive Officer)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    • Charity Security Network
    Launched in late 2008, the Charity & Security Network is made up of a broad cross-section of nonprofits, including charities working on humanitarian aid, development, peacebuilding, human rights and civil liberties, along with grantmakers, donors and faith-based groups.The network’s mission is to protect civil society’s ability to carry out peacebuilding, humanitarian aid, human rights and development work without being unduly constrained by counterterrorism laws and policies.
    http://www.charityandsecurity.org

    • Donors and Foundations' Networks in Europe (DAFNE)
    Established in 2006, the Donors and Foundations' Networks in Europe (DAFNE) is an informal network that aims at linking different Donors and Foundations' Networks (DFNs) in Europe and serving charitable foundations and other grantmakers at the national level.
    http://www.dafne-online.eu/

    • European Charities Committee on VAT (ECCVAT) is a group of associations and charitiesthat has come together to research the impact of VAT and other taxes on the work of NGOs and to make representations to the EU institutions.
    http://www.eccvat.org/

    • Federation of European and International Associations established in Belgium (FAIB) is a non-profit, non-political association that promotes and defends the interests and activities of its Members
    http://faib.org/

    • International Society for Third Sector Research
    Founded in 1992, the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) is a major international association promoting research and education in the fields of civil society, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector
    http://www.istr.org/

    • Social Economy Europe (SEE) is the EU-level representative institution for social economy. It was set up in November 2000 under the name of CEP-CMAF. SEE aims to promote social economy as a sector that produces both economic and social wealth, to promote the role and values of social economy actors throughout Europe, and to reinforce political and legal recognition of social economy and the cooperatives, associations, mutual societies and foundations at the European level. http://www.socialeconomy.eu.org/

    • Worldwide Initiatives from Grantmaker Support (WINGS) is a global network of more than 140 membership associations and support organisations serving grantmakers which was formally created in January 2000. Organisations have joined together to create opportunities to learn from and support one another, develop modes of communication and collaboration among themselves, and contribute to the strengthening of philanthropy worldwide. http://www.wingsweb.org/

    Member organisations

    http://www.efc.be/organisation/

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    23,356€

    Other financial info

    The EFC has calculated that it has spent an estimated €23,356 Euros in 2015 on interests representation.

    The figure is arrived at by calculating staff costs and related overheads for staff who worked on policy issues, as well as the production of materials and meetings and/or conferences organised where an element of such meetings included trying to influence policy, and 100% of the membership fees and contributions paid by EFC to European platforms.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None

    ACC

    None

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Social Economy, disability

    Communication activities

    Position papers, contribution to public consultations, meetings (see http://www.efc.be/news_events/Pages/Events.aspx )
    key events: annual conference 26-28 May 2016, Europhilantopics 16 November 2016

    Other activities

    EFC is a member of the EESC Liaison Group
    EFC participates in the European Platform againt Poverty (EPAP) (DG EMP), the Policy Forum on Development (DG DEVCO), the European Platform for Roma Inclusion (DG JUST)

    Policy fields of interest:
    Anti-discrimination - Disability, Roma
    Company law and internal market
    Data Protection
    Direct taxation of cross-border assets/funds (savings/investments/ donations/)
    Environment and sustainable development
    Family farming
    Indirect taxation (VAT)
    International affairs and development
    Home Affairs
    Science and research
    Sustainable cities
    Transparency issues

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    23 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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