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Registration as it was on 10 Oct 2014
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Overview

Lobbying Costs

325,000€

Financial year: Feb 2013 - Feb 2014

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

None declared

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    FairSearch Europe

    EU Transparency Register

    329146212053-87 First registered on 09 Oct 2013

    Goals / Remit

    FairSearch Europe 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 company should be allowed to use its dominance to foreclose competitors from the search marketplace – particularly in high-traffic specialty segments such as travel, jobs, health, real estate, media and local search.

    FairSearch Europe is allied with FairSearch.org, a US-based informal group of technology experts, innovative start-ups, online and mobile search businesses and organisations that have come together to advocate these positions in the US.

    Main EU files targeted

    Address

    Head Office
    Avenue Louise
    Brussels 1050
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    None declared

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    None declared

    Person with legal responsibility

    Ms Elizabeth de Bony (Executive Director)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Trade, business & professional associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Feb 2013 - Feb 2014

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    325,000€

    Other financial info

    The budget covers the activities of FairSearch Europe as set out above and the personnel costs needed to carry them out.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None declared

    Communication activities

    None declared

    Other activities

    None declared

  • 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.

    • Date 17 Jun 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Platforms
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
    • Date 09 Jun 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject DSM
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
    • Date 09 Jun 2015 Location BERL
      Subject DSM
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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