Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd. (ICOS)
EU Transparency Register
99345863205-62 First registered on 11 Feb 2010
Goals / Remit
The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) is a co-operative umbrella organisation that serves and promotes commercial co-operative businesses and enterprise across multiple sections of the Irish economy.
ICOS represents 130 co-operatives, which collectively have over 150,000 individual members, employ >12,000 people in Ireland (a further 24,000 abroad) and has combined turnover of €14 billion. Starting from agriculture co-op roots, and the vision of our founding President, Sir Horace Plunkett in 1894; ICOS today has evolved to serve the co-operative sector in seven core categories, namely:
Advisory and Education Related Co-ops
Community Oriented, Culture & Leisure Co-ops
Food, Fishing & Beverage Co-ops
Livestock Sector Co-ops
Multipurpose Dairy Co-ops
Store, Trade & Wholesale Co-ops
Service Related Co-ops
Our mission is: Generating leadership, competitiveness and value through stronger co-operation and world class service.
Within ICOS we aim to embrace the pioneering, innovative and tenacious spirit of our founding members to help strengthen our co-operatives operating in today's commercial and competitive world. Our core values are vision, leadership and value.Main EU files targeted
European Legislation affecting Irish Co-ops, including:
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Trade (International, EU single market, BREXIT)
- EU budget
- Consumer legislation (inc labelling)
- Food supply chain
- Innovation and research funding
- Climate change and Energy policy
- Veterinary and animal health and welfare issues
- Food safety
- Transport of animals
- Environmental legislation
- Competition law relating to the organisation of primary producers
- FisheriesAddress
Head Office
The Plunkett House
Merrion Square, 84
Dublin D02 T882
IRELANDEU Office
Floor 7
Rue Treves 61
Brussels 1040
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 01 Jul 2019
Name Start date End Date Damien O'REILLY 04 May 2023 04 May 2024 Ms Alison Graham 05 Oct 2021 05 Oct 2022 Ms Alison Graham 20 Nov 2019 01 Dec 2020 Ms Alison Graham 24 Nov 2018 20 Nov 2019 Ms Alison Graham 10 Nov 2017 10 Nov 2018 Ms Alison Graham 14 Oct 2016 05 Oct 2017 Mr Conor Mulvihill 07 Aug 2015 04 Aug 2016 Mr Conor Mulvihill 31 Jan 2014 30 Jan 2015 Mr Conor Mulvihill 26 Jan 2013 25 Jan 2014 Complementary Information
The ICOS European office has been a permanent fixture for over 40 years, as long as Ireland has been a member of the EC.
It has always interacted with all of the European Institutions in a proactive, constructive and professional way.Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Alison Graham (European Affairs Executive)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr TJ Flanagan (CEO)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
ICOS is a member of COGECA, the General Confederation for Agriculture Co-operatives in the European Union.
www.copa-cogeca.eu
ICOS is also a member of U.E.C.B.V. – European Livestock and Meat Trading Union.
www.uecbv.eu/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
37,306 € (Source: Erasmus +)
Other financial info
The ICOS EU office and all its activities related to the transparency register is fully funded by member organisations through their annual subscription to ICOS.
Funding received from the EU, through the Erasmus + programme was solely and directly related to the “LeadFarm” Project, which ran from October 2017 and will conclude in October 2019 and the “ToTCOOP+i_Tech” project, which begin in October 2018 and will run until October 2020.
The LeadFarm Project relates to the promotion of co-operative culture and values to the young farmers, aiming to increase their level of involvement and commitment in co-operatives and strengthen their business skills. The other countries involved in the project include Spain, Latvia, France and Sweden.
The ToTCOOP+i_Tech project aims to transform the current offer of continuing vocational training in the co-operative sector at EU level into exceptional training based on the use of technology and in the new models of the digital era. Furthermore, it aims to strengthen the capabilities of business administration of the board of directors, members from agri-food co-operatives, through their direct involvement in the training process. The other countries involved include Latvia, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
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.
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Date 14 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Business discussion Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Climate, dairy sector in Ireland Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Peter Wehrheim (Cabinet member)
- Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject MFF, CAP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Jun 2016 Location Ireland Subject Climate Change Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Nov 2015 Location Ireland Subject Address ICOS Conference Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 01 Sep 2015 Location BRUSSELS Subject Agriculture Affairs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 29 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Medicated Feed and Veterinary Medicines Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
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