Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
FairSearch (FairSearch)
EU Transparency Register
329146212053-87 First registered on 09 Oct 2013
Goals / Remit
FairSearch is an association that promotes innovation and choice across the Internet ecosystem by fostering and defending competition in online and mobile search within the European Union. It believes that existing laws should be enforced to prevent anticompetitive behaviour that harms consumers and to prevent new regulations from stifling innovation. It calls for two essential principles to be consistently applied:
1. Transparency
Consumers – not search engines – should choose winners in the marketplace. Competition in the search marketplace benefits consumers through increased choice, innovation to improve products, and the transparent display of search results. When search providers discriminate by manipulating results in order to promote a favoured product and demote competitors, consumers suffer.
2. Innovation
Consumers also benefit when a competitive market forces search providers to continue innovating and develop the best solutions for online search. No one compa (...)Main EU files targeted
Digital Single Market/DMA/DSA in so far as as they impact the Google abuse of dominance complaints.
Competition Policy including anti-trust developments, in so far as it is relevant to the Google complaints.Address
Head Office
Avenue Louise, 65
Brussels 1050 - 2
BELGIUMEU Office
Avenue Louise, 65
Brussels 1050 - 2
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Each of the three people actually spend less than 10% of their time on activities covered by the Register.
Representatives of member companies are also directly engaged in and lead FairSearch activities, but only as a very small percentage of his or her time.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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
N/A
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€ - 24,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount burson cohn & wolf 10,000€ - 24,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name finsbury international policy and regulatory advisors Closed year Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
In accordance with the description of the organisation’s goals and remit (above), FairSearch is focused on achieving a competitive market in both the online and mobile search markets. Our activities include
- Hosting industry roundtables with technology experts, media, and consumer advocates;
- Producing communications material about Internet search and and mobile search operating systems and apps – for example, blog posts, fact sheets, media interviews and other publicly available materials;
- Responding to inquiries from media, policymakers and other interested parties.
- Legal analyses
Meetings
Meetings
3 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 17 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Platforms Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jun 2015 Location BERL Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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