Frank Bold Society

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Overview

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

2.25 Fte (5)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

16

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Frank Bold Society   (FBS)

    EU Transparency Register

    57221111091-19 First registered on 06 Feb 2009

    Goals / Remit

    Founded in 1995, we use law to protect human rights, and the environment. We promote liberty and fair play

    In the course of our work, we try to achieve the following:

    * democratic, lawful, and open decision-making by state authorities
    * elimination of corruption
    * corporate accountability and transparency
    * effective access to the courts for citizens who use the law to protect the public interest and human rights
    * easy and quick access to information for citizens
    * the involvement of lawyers and law school students in publicly beneficial activities

    At the EU level the FBS is involved in the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) - a coalition of NGOs, trade unions and other civil society groups campaigning for greater corporate social responsibility and corporate accountability.

    Main EU files targeted

    1. The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and development of EU Sustainability Reporting Standards
    2. EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and proposals clarify director obligations vis-à-vis sustainability
    3. EU Sustainable Finance policy, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
    4. Company law and corporate governance policy
    5. Implementation of United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
    6. Recommendation on collective redress
    7. Media Freedom Act
    8. Digital Services Act
    9. European Commission’s initiative: “A more inclusive and protective Europe: extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime” and all forthcoming proposals concerning similar matters

    Address

    Head Office
    Údolní, 567/33
    Brno 602 00
    CZECH REPUBLIC
    EU Office
    Rue d'Edimbourg 26
    Brussels
    BELGIUM

    Website

    http://www.frankbold.org

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    5

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%4
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    2.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 20 Mar 2025

    Name Start date End Date
    Daniel Torán Saltó 12 Apr 2024 01 Mar 2025
    Julia Christiane Maria Otten 12 Apr 2024 10 Apr 2026
    Ms Julia OTTEN 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
    Daniel Torán Saltó 15 Mar 2023 15 Mar 2024
    Ms Julia OTTEN 08 Apr 2022 08 Apr 2023
    Ms Susanna ARUS SAN SEGUNDO 25 Oct 2021 26 Oct 2022
    Melpomeni Maria ANASTASIADOU 22 Feb 2020 01 Sep 2020
    Ms Susanna ARUS SAN SEGUNDO 11 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021
    Joanne HOUSTON 30 Jan 2020 30 Jan 2021
    Marta MARIA PRATICO 05 Nov 2019 22 Feb 2020
    Ms Susanna ARUS SAN SEGUNDO 12 Dec 2018 12 Dec 2019
    Ms Susanna ARUS SAN SEGUNDO 03 Jan 2018 12 Dec 2018
    Ms Paige Morrow 22 Mar 2017 28 Jun 2017
    Ms Paige Morrow 03 Jul 2015 01 Jul 2016
    Ms Paige Morrow 09 Jul 2014 03 Jul 2015
    Mr Christopher Halburd 14 Jan 2014 10 Jan 2015
    Mr Christopher Halburd 12 Jan 2013 11 Jan 2014

    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

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    FBS is the coordinator of the Alliance for Corporate Transparency, a platform gathering leading civil society organisations that has provided landmark research and evidence-based recommendations for the reform and development of the sustainability disclosure framework in the EU. The initiative is providing expert advice to policy-makers and contributing to the technical work being developed in EFRAG on EU sustainability reporting standards

    For more information see www.allianceforcorporatetransparency.org

    The FBS is member of the Board of the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) - a coalition of NGOs, trade unions and other civil society groups campaigning for greater corporate social responsibility and corporate accountability. ECCJ calls for better EU regulation to ensure that European companies consider their social and environmental impacts and mitigate them where they are negative.

    Today ECCJ membership includes twelve national CSO platforms, four organizations representing a country where no platform has yet been established and one international organisation.

    For more information see http://www.corporatejustice.org

    The FBS is a founding member of Justice & Environment. Justice & Environment is a non-governmental, non-partisan and non-governmental independent association of public interest environmental law organisations, based in the EU member states. J&E aims to use law to protect people, the environment and nature. Our primary goal is to ensure the implementation and enforcement of the EU legislation through the use of European law and exchange of information.J&E works on the EU and national levels. Internationally, J&E focuses on implementation and transposition of horizontal legal issues. The network has a unique ability to analyse and evaluate the implementation of the environmental acquis in EU Member States. We provide an expert, comparative perspective in identifying and assessing gaps in the implementation of existing EU environmental provisions. J&E also evaluates the impact that new EU environmental provisions can have on Member States given the specific characteristics of their legal systems, economic development and natural environment. Our work provides a public record of information not otherwise available, in the form of legal analysis, case studies, position papers and subsequent communication of this message to decision makers.

    For more information please visit http://www.justiceandenvironment.org

    FBS is member of OECD Watch. OECD Watch is an international network of civil society organisations promoting corporate accountability. The purpose of OECD Watch is to inform the wider NGO community about policies and activities of the OECD's Investment Committee and to test the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. The network has a Coordination Committee with a diverse regional representation.

    See http://oecdwatch.org/

    FBS is a member of the European Environmental Bureau. The EEB tackles Europe’s most pressing environmental problems by agenda setting, monitoring, advising on and influencing the way the EU deals with these issues.

    See https://eeb.org/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    1,541,143€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Public financing, Grants, Donations

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution The Laudes Foundation 172,397€
    Contribution The European Climate Foundation 264,417€

    Other financial info

    * The amounts indicated in Euros have been converted from original Czech koruna in financial account

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Competitive European Industry: long-term and sustainable investment

    Communication activities

    Accessible at:
    http://en.frankbold.org

    Communications activities included the development of analysis and policy recommendations and the dissemination of this material with Members of the European Parliament, Commission and Member States Permanent Representations to the EU.

    The advocacy objectives aim to promote better corporate accountability policy and legislation, as well as responsible capital markets. FBS also supports at the EU level the objectives of the European Coalition for Corporate Justice.

    We are advocating for independence of media - be it on political influence or control of oligarchs. We aim to introduce european standards for journalism as a measure to ensure support of objective and professional journalism from public sources. Furthermore we aim for a stronger position of individual users and preservation of their basic human rights (such as freedom of speech) on online platforms.

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    16 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.

    1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

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