Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€
Financial year: Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
8
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Environmental Law Service (Ekologický právní servis) (ELS)
EU Transparency Register
57221111091-19 First registered on 06 Feb 2009
Goals / Remit
ELS is a public interest law organization. Founded in 1995, we use law to protect the human rights, civic rights and the environment. Our vision is of a free society that allows anyone to pursue personal happiness while being responsible for common values including the state of the planet Earth. The democracy must be based on rule of law and on equality of all without regard to political and economical power. We support those people who strive for protection of their rights and public interests and we fight for accountability of governments and of corporations.
In the course of our work, we try to achieve the following:
* effective protection for the rights of citizens and the associations they form for environment
* democratic, just, and open decision-making by state authorities
* corporate and governmental accountability
* better 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
* benefits for citizens, not narrow-interest lobbies, from new legislation
* better legal awareness among the public
* the involvement of lawyers and law school students in publicly beneficial activities
* the opening up of discussion on burning issues surrounding legal protection of public interests and human rights, and how to move towards their solution
At the EU level the ELS 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. ECCJ calls for better EU regulation to ensure that European companies consider their social and environmental impacts and mitigate them where they are negative. In order to achieve this, we advocate the extension of parent company liability, directors liability, the establishment of a duty of care for companies over their value chain and greater transparency through mandatory social and environmental reporting as well as and clarification of corporate lobbying activities.
In relation to this last aim, we consider this register to be insufficient. The ELS believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider necessary 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 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. 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 carry out such activities.
Lastly, we believe that this register should be mandatory also for lobbyists lobbying the Council.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Údolní
Brno 602 00
CZECH REPUBLIC -
People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 22 May 2013
Name Start date End Date Julia Christiane Maria Otten 12 Apr 2024 10 Apr 2026 Daniel Torán Saltó 12 Apr 2024 10 Apr 2026 Ms Julia OTTEN 13 Apr 2023 15 Apr 2024 Mr 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
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Christopher Halburd (lawyer)
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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 2011 - Dec 2011
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
133,171 €
Other financial info
ELS ethical rules
ELS:
* doesn't accept donations from persons violating directly or indirectly human rights, labour rights, or who are abusing the environment
* operates on non-profit basis, whereby the goal of ELS is not acquiring profit and its redistribution among its members. All its income is used by ELS for securing sustainable and effective promotion of ELS' goals
* is transparent and regularly reports about its activities and financial flows on its website and in its annual report -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
8 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 18 Jul 2023 Location Online meeting Subject European Reporting Sustainability Standards Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
- Katherine Power (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 08 Nov 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Sustainable Corporate Governance Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - Amnesty International Limited
- Global Witness
- Finance Watch
- Friends of the Earth Europe
- Climate Action Network Europe
- International Federation for Human Rights
- International Federation for the Economy for the Common Good e. V.
- ClientEarth AISBL
- Clean Clothes Campaign / Stichting Schone Kleren Kampagne
- European Environmental Bureau
- WWF Deutschland
- Climate Disclosure Standards Board
- OXFAM INTERNATIONAL EU ADVOCACY OFFICE
- European Coalition for Corporate Justice
- European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
- Anti-Slavery International
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Date 28 Oct 2021 Location video - conference Subject Sustainable corporate governance initiative Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 17 Sep 2021 Location videoconference Subject upcoming proposal on sustainable corporate governance Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
- Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 27 Jul 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Sustainable Corporate Governance Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 07 Jul 2021 Location Virtual Subject Sustainable corporate governance Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 15 Sep 2020 Location video conference Subject Sustainable finance Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 16 Feb 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Corporate social responsibility Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Věra Jourová (Commissioner)
- Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)
- Meetings