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
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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 time Lobbyists 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
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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 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
Other financial info
None declared
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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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Date 17 Nov 2016 Location Brussels Subject Roundtable on the future of the General Food Law Regulation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
- Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - European Food Law Association
- EuroCommerce
- Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés
- EuropaBio
- FoodDrinkEurope
- European farmers
- Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs
- European Public Health Alliance
- European agri-cooperatives
- AnimalhealthEurope
- Greenpeace European Unit
- Association of the European Self-Care Industry
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Date 19 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Nutrient profiles, mineral oil hydrocarbons in food Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Jan 2016 Location Brussels Subject Healthy food, reducing sugar, nutrient profiles Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
- Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Paula Duarte Gaspar (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject Food policy in the consumer’s interest; prevention of childhood obesity; nutrition profiles Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
- Paula Duarte Gaspar (Cabinet member)
- Meetings