Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€
Financial year: Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Vegetarian Union (EVU)
EU Transparency Register
109356110578-03 First registered on 05 Feb 2013
Goals / Remit
EVU is the voice of the European vegetarian and vegan movement. Its aim is to make the vegetarian and meat-reduced lifestyle safe for consumers, producers and traders and provide adequate information on related health issues, as well ass on plant health, animal health and welfare and environmental protection, with respect to a vegetarian lifestyle.
The EVU was founded in 1988 and is representing 45 national member organisations in 30 countries. It is funded mainly by membership fees. Any autonomous European organisation working in the vegetarian sector can have full membership with voting rights. The EVU is politically, ethnically and religiously neutral, independent and autonomous.
As the only European organisation for the 25 million vegetarians in Europe, the EVU holds a monopoly position.
The EVU:
- offers a platform for close cooperation, acts as media resource for the dissemination of information on vegetarianism;
- cooperates with other institutions and organisations for greater recognition of vegetarian issues;
- helps and supports national and international events;
- gives advice to, promotes and/or acts as a resource for other vegetarian organisations;
- promotes the production and use of vegetarian products to benefit people, animals and the environment; and
- promotes the production and use of vegetarian products to benefit people, animals and the environment.
The EVU is the first contact at European level for media inquiries on vegetarian food and issues on the vegetarian diet.One of EVU’s main concerns is consumer protection in the field of vegetarianism. For that purpose the EVU promoted the EU-wide definition of “vegetarian” and “vegan“ to be introduced by the European Commission in 2012. It also provides the European V-label, a quality seal for products in line with the EU-wide definitions. Currently over 100 European companies make use of the V-label. In this way, consumers’ trust and have confidence in the EU food supply and traders/producers are enabled to supply a trend which is increasingly growing.
It is the EVU’s aim to stimulate research in the areas of vegetarianism, healthy nutrition, animal protection and environmental protection, and to distribute that research by providing target group oriented information to consumers, economical actors and the political sphere alike. Therefore it provides free nutritional consultancy via national consumer hotlines, information material on well-balanced food, dietary reference values and dietary guidelines like a nutritional pyramid as well as research and data collections into real and ideal nutrient uptake and the occurrence of nutrition-related diseases like cardiovascular diseases or adipositas. The EVU is continuously requested for independent scientific advice on food, food safety and reference values for nutrition in the field of vegetarianism and it therefore either refers to EFSA standards or has to initiate its own work, the results of which it communicates to national membership organisations, authorities and media. The EVU also aims to advocate on animal protection and animal rights and the promotion of environment protection issues in relation to nutritional lifestyles.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Friedhofstr.
Fischbach 67693
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People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 05 Feb 2014
Name Start date End Date Ms Caroline FORMONT 21 Apr 2023 19 Aug 2023 Mr Rafael PINTO 21 Apr 2023 19 Apr 2024 Mr Elias VAN MARCKE 21 Jun 2022 15 Apr 2023 Ms Ronja BERTHOLD 20 Nov 2019 20 Nov 2020 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Till Strecker (Government Relations)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€
Other financial info
EVU participated in a learning partnership starting 2012 within the Grundtvig programme for lifelong learning and was granted 18.000 Euros to do so.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
4 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 27 Jun 2023 Location Brussels Subject Fit for 55 DG Climate Action Attending - Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists - European Coordination Via Campesina
- Slow Food
- European agri-cooperatives
- European Plant-based Foods Association
- FoodDrinkEurope
- Freshfel Europe - the forum for the European fresh fruits and vegetables chain
- Conseil Européen des Jeunes Agriculteurs
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements EU Regional Group
- European farmers
- Euro Coop - European Community of Consumer Co-operatives
- Agroecology Europe
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Date 21 Nov 2022 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Ongoing legislative initiatives on the plant-based food sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Joanna Stawowy (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 26 Oct 2021 Location Online Subject Review of the EU agricultural promotion policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
- Roberto Berutti (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings