FairSearch

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Registration as it was on 13 Feb 2018
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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.75 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    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 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.

    Main EU files targeted

    Competition Policy including anti-trust developments
    DG Competition
    Digital Single Market

    Address

    Head Office
    Avenue Louise, 65
    Brussels 1050
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    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

    Ms Elizabeth de Bony (Executive Director)

    Person with legal responsibility

    No single person has legal responsibility. As an association, FairSearch will hold legal responsibility. (N/A)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    N/A

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    Other financial info

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

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    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 forums and roundtables with technology experts, media, and consumer advocates;
    - Producing educational materials and communications about Internet search and related services, 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.

    • 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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