International Association of Privacy Professionals

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

350,000€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

11.75 Fte (17)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

7

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    International Association of Privacy Professionals   (IAPP)

    EU Transparency Register

    977881918839-35 First registered on 18 Sep 2015

    Goals / Remit

    The IAPP is the world’s largest global and independent information privacy community. The organization provides comprehensive resources for professionals who want to develop and advance their careers helping organizations successfully manage data protection and privacy risks.

    The IAPP is an independent professional association, non-advocacy in nature, and policy neutral.

    Main EU files targeted

    The IAPP is a non-advocacy n-f-p association, representing the interests of the privacy profession. We organize events and conferences in Europe to advance the profession of privacy and data protection professionals.


    We hold 4 privacy conferences in Europe - in Brussels, London, Munich and Paris - and often invite invite EU officials or MEPs as guest speakers to our programs.

    The IAPP also holds data protection trainings and runs professional ISO certification programs for professionals to advance their career. We train and certify on EU legislation content.

    The EU areas of interest are related to those areas of legislation (directives and regulations) that impact upon the privacy professionals and their organisations; such as GDPR and the ePrivacy directive

    Address

    Head Office
    Pease International Tradeport
    75 Rochester ave, Suite 4
    Portsmouth 03801
    UNITED STATES
    EU Office
    Avenue des Arts 56
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    17

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%10
    25%7

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    11.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    The managing director of the IAPP European office, Mr. Paul jordan is involved 100% of his time to organize events, and oversee the strategy and activities of the IAPP in Europe, with support from the Portsmouth office in the US.

    The European office has additional staff including 9 full time support staff. In addition 7 part-time in-country "Country Leaders" in Ireland/ UK/ France/ Germany/ the Netherlands/ Italy & Finland - advisory roles.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Mr Paul Jordan (Managing Director Europe)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr J. Trevor Hughes (CEO & President)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Trade unions and professional associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Not applicable - we are an independent association.

    Member organisations

    A listing of our corporate and organisational memberships can be found on our website here:

    https://iapp.org/join/corporate/

    We have a global membership of 52,000 members, of which 15,500 are European members. Membership can either be individual or through an organisational membership roster.

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    350,000€

    Other financial info

    The IAPP, as a non-profit entity, is financed by membership fees and other non-dues revenues (events, training & certification programs). As we do not carry out any interest representation activity, no funds are allocated to or spent on lobbying EU or other institutions.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    We organize a number of conferences, webinars and other events concerning various aspects of privacy developments (including EU policy). Being a neutral, non-policy and non-advocacy association, we do not directly represent interest of our members to the EU institutions.

    We also have a number of global publications and newletters that report on privacy evolutions in the EU and beyond.

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    7 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.

    • Date 19 Sep 2023 Location Brussels
      Subject Artificial Intelligence, Data protection
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
      Portfolio Justice
      Attending
      • Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
      • Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
    • Date 10 Nov 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject Data flows, GDPR
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
      Portfolio Justice
      Attending
      • Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
      • Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
    • Date 22 Sep 2020 Location video conference
      Subject Preparatory meeting IAPP event
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
      Portfolio Justice
      Attending
      • Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
    • Date 23 Jan 2020 Location Brussels
      Subject General presentation of the activities of the Group
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
      Portfolio Justice
      Attending
      • Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
      • Geneviève Tuts (Cabinet member)
    • Date 23 Jan 2020 Location Brussels
      Subject Data protection
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
      Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age
      Attending
      • Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
    • Date 21 Oct 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject GDPR
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
      Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
      Attending
      • Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 21 Sep 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Discussion on data privacy, big data and international dada flows
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
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