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Overview

Lobbying Costs

37,500€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.5 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

4

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    foodwatch

    EU Transparency Register

    858136219735-96 First registered on 30 Nov 2015

    Goals / Remit

    foodwatch is a consumer rights organisation focussing on the food sector with offices in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. The international work is coordinated by foodwatch International based in Berlin and reinforced by a part-time representative in Brussels. foodwatch is independent of governments, EU-bodies and the food industry and financed through membership fees and donations.
    The national offices can be reached as follows:

    foodwatch France:
    Karine Jacquemart
    53 rue Meslay
    75003 Paris
    info(at)foodwatch(dot)fr
    www.foodwatch.fr
    +33 (0) 1 43 22 23 63

    foodwatch Germany:
    Martin Rücker
    Brunnenstr. 181
    10119 Berlin
    Germany
    info(at)foodwatch(dot)de
    +49 (0) 30 24 04 760

    foodwatch Netherlands:
    Nicole van Gemert
    De Wittenstraat 25
    1052 AK Amsterdam
    contact(at)foodwatch(dot)nl
    www.foodwatch.nl
    + 31 20 7741079

    foodwatch International:
    Dr. Thilo Bode
    Brunnenstrasse 181
    10119 Berlin
    info(at)foodwatch(dot)international
    www.foodwatch.org
    Phone: +49 (0)30 / 24 04 76-116

    foodwatch is committed to transparency about EU lobbying. foodwatch believes that the Transparency Register fails basic transparency standards and does not yet live up to its name. We support ALTER-EU's demand for a mandatory nature of the register, safeguards against underreporting, and publication of the names of interest representatives. When registering, we have therefore chosen to provide additional information that we consider necessary and relevant for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective monitoring and sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow guidelines that result from consultations with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobby transparency as well as experts of US lobby disclosure legislation. ( n)Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of foodwatch, carry out such activities. Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on http://www.act4europe.org/register or http://www.alter-eu.org”

    In 2018/2019 foodwatch runs campaigns and conducts research on the following issues (among others):
    - General food law (Regulation 178/2002)
    - Food contaminants (mercury in fish; arsenic in rice; mineral oil in food including migration from recycled cardboard packaging)
    - Food additives (E 171, Titandioxide)
    - Pesticides
    - (In-) transparency and food safety issues (“legal” food fraud / misleading labelling incl. sugar, salt and fat; marketing of unhealthy food to children; misleading health claims; front-of-package nutritional labelling)
    - “New generation” free trade agreements (CETA, Jefta, Mercosur etc.)
    - Food industry sponsoring presidency of the Council of the European Union (Coca Cola/ Romania)
    - Agriculture and climate, future CAP
    - New EU COM (offer of helping Ms Von der Leyen to restore a taste for Europe)

    Main EU files targeted

    REFIT, Health Claims, Novel-Food Verordnung, EU actionplan on childhood obesity, LMIV

    Address

    Head Office
    Brunnenstr. 181
    Berlin 10119
    GERMANY
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 Apr 2020

    Name Start date End Date
    Natacha CINGOTTI 27 Mar 2024 02 Oct 2024
    Suzanne SUMNER 07 Nov 2023 06 Nov 2024
    Ms natacha CINGOTTI 27 Mar 2024 15 Apr 2024
    Ms Suzanne SUMNER 07 Nov 2023 15 Apr 2024
    Ms Suzanne SUMNER 05 Nov 2022 04 Nov 2023
    Ms Suzanne SUMNER 30 Oct 2021 29 Oct 2022
    Ms Suzanne SUMNER 31 Jan 2020 30 Jan 2021
    Ms Suzanne SUMNER 18 Dec 2018 18 Dec 2019

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    37,500€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    None

    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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