Frank Bold Society

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Overview

WARNING: As this organisation lists one or more EP accredited lobbyists, it may not be probable that its lobbying costs are lower than €10,000.

Lobbying Costs

9,999€

Financial year: Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.5 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

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 is a purpose-driven law firm using the power of business and non-profit approaches to solve social and environmental problems.

    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.

    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
    * 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. ECCJ calls for better EU regulation to ensure that European companies consider their social and environmental impacts and mitigate them where they are negative.

    When registering in this lobby register, we have 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.

    Main EU files targeted

    1. EU CSR Policy
    2. Implementation of United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
    3. The transposition of the EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information
    4. Recommendation on collective redress
    5. Company law and corporate governance
    6. Proposal for Shareholders Rights Directive

    Address

    Head Office
    Údolní, 567/33
    Brno 602 00
    CZECH REPUBLIC
    EU Office
    Rue d'Edimbourg 26
    Brussels 1050
    BELGIUM
  • 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

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 16 Jan 2017

    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

    Filip Gregor
    Paige Morrow

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Paige Morrow (Head of Brussels Operations)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Pavel Franc (Statutory representative)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    The FBS is member of the Steering Group 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 ten national CSO platforms (in Spain, Italy, France, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland), six organizations representing a country where no platform has yet been established (Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland), three European organizations (Friends of the Earth Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory and Karat), and one international organization (FIDH).

    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 strong grass roots contacts of our members encouraged J&E to concentrate on horizontal problems with the Aarhus Convention and related legislation, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental Liability, pollution, Natura 2000, Transport and organisational capacity. 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.

    Full members of J&E are:
    * EELC - Estonian Environmental Law Center, Estonia
    * EMLA - Environmental Management and Law Association, Hungary
    * FBS - Frank Bold Society, Czech Republic
    * OEKOBUERO – Coordination Bureau of Austrian Environmental NGOs - Austria
    * PIC Center for Public Acvocacy, Slovenia
    * Via Iuris - Slovakia

    Associated members:
    * The Association for Environmental Justice (Spain),
    * Centre for Legal Resources (Romania),
    * Front 21/42 (Macedonia),
    * International Institute for Law and the Environment (Spain),
    * Legal Information Centre (Slovenia),
    * Milieukontakt (Netherlands)
    * Zelena Akcija (Croatia)

    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, and is currently made up by SOMO (Netherlands - secretariat), ACIDH (Democratic Republic of Congo), Association Sherpa (France), Brotherhood of St Laurence (Australia), CEDHA (Argentina), CIVIDEP (India), ForUM, (Norway), Friends of the Earth Europe (Belgium), and Germanwatch (Germany).

    See http://oecdwatch.org/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    9,999€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    45,217 € (Source: DG Home Affairs, DG Justice)

    Other financial info

    38439 was spent on financing two projects: Fundacja Frank Bold (financing of Polish activities) and Justice and Environment (co-financing of LIFE+ Project).
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    Frank Bold Society's ethical rules:

    Frank Bold Society

    * 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)

    Expert Group on Disclosure of Non-financial Information

    ACC

    None

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    Accessible at:
    http://www.purposeofcorporation.org/
    http://www.accessjustice.eu/en

    Other activities

    The lobbying 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.

    In 2016, these activities were conducted on behalf of FBS by Filip Gregor and Paige Morrow, employees of FBS. Each of them spent approx. 10% of their respective working times on preparing policy proposals and explaining them to policy-makers.

    The issues they have worked on:
    * Discussions regarding the new EU CSR policy, including implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles (objective: reflect human rights impacts in the policy; outline regulatory reforms to be implemented by the EU)
    * Transposition of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive and preparation of the guidance on implementation (objective: implementation of human rights due diligence and reporting on risks and impacts in social and environmental sphere in the new legislation)
    * Negotiations on the revision of the Shareholders Rights Directive (objective: clarify the relationship of shareholders and companies and balance the shareholder empowerment with other measures to improve corporate governance and foster long-term sustainability of EU companies)
    * Discussions on integrating sustainability into the Capital Markets Union

    In 2016, FBS met with the following representatives of the EU institutions and Member State missions:

    Members of the European Parliament and their staff: Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Richard Howitt

    Commission: Vera Jourová (JUST), Jeroen Hooijer (JUST), Joanna Sikora-Wittnebel (JUST), Zsofia Kerecsen (JUST), Nicolas Bernier-Abad (FISMA)

    Council: Representatives of the French and Dutch missions

  • 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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