Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
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.
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.
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-opsMain EU files targeted
European Legislation affecting Irish Co-ops, including:
- Promotion Policy
- EU budget
- Innovation and research funding
- Consumer legislation (inc labelling)
- Co-operative development and governance
- Climate change and Energy policy
- Trade
- Grain and animal feed
- Veterinary and animal health and welfare issues
- Food safety
- Transport (of animals)
- Environmental legislation
- FisheriesAddress
Head Office
Plunkett House
Merrion Square, 84
Dublin 2
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 12 Jul 2017
Name Start date End Date Damien O'REILLY 04 May 2023 03 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 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 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
14,150 € (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 “ToTCOOP+i” Project, which ran from the end of 2015 to 21 July 2017. The Project was in relation to “The Training of Trainers in Co-operative Governance”. Countries involved in the project include, Spain, Latvia, Ireland, Poland, Italy and Sweden. The total ICOS Budget for the 2-year period was €28,300 which represented 14.63% of a total budget for the overall project of €193,410. ICOS received the funding in installments, from the lead project partner, AGACA, who received the funding from Erasmus through their local Agency “SEPIE”.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
DG AGRI Civil Dialogue groups, include Milk & Dairy, Animal Health & Welfare, & Rural Development
DG AGRI Civil Dialogue groups, include Milk & Dairy, Animal Health & Welfare, & Rural Development
DG AGRI European Milk Market Observatory
ENRD Leader/CLLD Supgroup
EU Platform on Animal WelfareACC
Sometimes on trade, agri-food and Industry
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)