Overview
Lobbying Costs
131,375€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
LobbyControl
EU Transparency Register
6314918394-16 First registered on 15 Sep 2008
Goals / Remit
LobbyControl promotes transparency and a vivid democracy. We campaign for more transparency and a legal, institutional and societal framework that limits the improper influence of lobbyists on both politics and the public at large. On EU-level we undertake these kind of engagements very often in our ALTER-EU network (also registered in the transparency register). Our organisation moreover works to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups on EU policy-making. LobbyControl was founded in 2005. LobbyControl is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. We have been campaigning for this register since 2005 and have witnessed progress. Still the register fails to provide full 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, as well as funding sources providing more than €1000.
Main EU files targeted
Issues covered in 2019: In 2019 we tried to get the issue of undue influence of business lobbying and the need to balance this influence on the agenda of the "Spitzenkandidaten" in the European elections. At the same time we tried to inform the public in a differentiated way about the problems around undue influence in Brussels and what progressive answers could be given.
Main initiatives covered:
- Process for an Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory Transparency Register
- decision of the EU Parliament that rapporteurs and committee chairs have to publish meetings
- Trade policy
- EU elections and the process of designating commissioners (member countries) and checking their declarations of interests and their capabilities (Parliament)Address
Head Office
Am Justizzentrum 7
Köln 50939
GERMANY -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 06 Apr 2020
Name Start date End Date Ms Laura GROSSE 29 Oct 2019 29 Apr 2020 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 27 Jun 2019 27 Jun 2020 Mr Max BANK 19 May 2018 18 May 2019 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 19 May 2018 18 May 2019 Mr Max BANK 29 Mar 2017 10 Mar 2018 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 29 Mar 2017 10 Mar 2018 Mr Max BANK 25 Feb 2016 24 Feb 2017 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 25 Feb 2016 24 Feb 2017 Complementary Information
On behalf of LobbyControl the persons listed below have had, during the reporting period, four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 20 percent or more of their working time on behalf of LobbyControl carrying out such activities:
Max Bank (75%) (issues: trade, corporate capture); since June 2019 Laura Grosse (parental leave replacement)
Nina Katzemich (50%) (issues: EU Lobby Regulation, corporate capture)Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
LobbyControl is a member of
- the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU, www.alter-eu.org),
- ENCO network
- German network for Corporate Accountability (CorA, www.cora-netz.de),
- Allianz „Rechtssicherheit für politische Willensbildung“Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
131,375€
Other financial info
LobbyControl does not have a Brussels office.
2019 we received money from the following foundations and partners:
- € 60.000 Olin gemeinnützige GmbH http://olingmbh.net/projekte.html
- € 80.000 Schöpflin Stiftung https://www.schoepflin-stiftung.de/
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- EU Lobbyreport (April 2019)
- Online Petition "Do not let corporations take over Europe"
- ALTER-EU letter to Ursula von der Leyen
- Lobbfacts.eu
- lots of blogposts about the EU elections on lobbycontrol.de
- Social media workOther activities
LobbyControl campaigns for more transparency and a legal, institutional and societal framework that limits the improper influence of lobbyists on both politics and the public at large.
We concretely campaign for a better EU transparency register, more balanced expertise and more balanced lobbymeetings, stricter rules against conflicts of interests, as well as more transparency of decision making in all three institutions with a focus on the least transparent institution, the council.
Moreover we engage in certain fields like trade politics or climate politics, when we have the impression that the lobbying taking place or the priviledged access of certain groups resulted or will result in corporate capture
Meetings
Meetings
6 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 15 Nov 2022 Location Online Subject Lobby control. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Mar 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Transparency register Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 21 Oct 2021 Location Videoconference Subject DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jul 2021 Location Videoconference Subject DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject Transparency Register Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)
- Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 02 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject Transparency notably of TiSA Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)
- Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Joakim Larsson (Cabinet member)