Frank Bold Society

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

50,000€

Financial year: Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

None declared

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

8

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Frank Bold Society   (FBS)

    EU Transparency Register

    57221111091-19 First registered on 06 Feb 2009

    Goals / Remit

    Frank Bold Society 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 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. 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 FBS 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 26 Nov 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)

  • 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 2012 - Dec 2012

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    50,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    83,918 €

    Other financial info

    FBS ethical rules
    FBS:

    * 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 FBS is not acquiring profit and its redistribution among its members. All its income is used by FBS for securing sustainable and effective promotion of FBS' 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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