Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
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 do research on lobbying, PR campaigns and think tanks and inform the public how they influence politics and media and where that becomes problematic. We also 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. LobbyControl was founded in 2005.
LobbyControl is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. LobbyControl believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide 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, and a list of those who, on behalf of LobbyControl, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on http://www.act4europe.org/register or http://www.alter-eu.org”Main EU files targeted
The main objective of LobbyControl in the EU is to promote transparency of the EU decision-making process and effective ethics regulations for EU decision-makers.
Important dossiers we engaged in in 2014 were:
• 2014/2010(ACI) Inter-Institutional Agreement on the Transparency Register
• Report on the modification of the inter-institutional agreement on the Transparency Register (2014/2010(ACI))/ Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rapporteur: Roberto Gualtieri
• Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament with respect to financial interests and conflicts of interest (2011/2174(REG))
• Code of conduct for Commissioners
• Appointment of the new Commissioners
• Review of the Staff Regulations (COM(2011)0890 – C7-0507/2011 – 2011/0455(COD))
• Composition of EC expert groups and Framework for Commission’s expert groups:
Horizontal Rules and Public Register (C(2005)2817)
As we see large democracy and transparency problems in the area of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and other trade agreements, we added this issue as an additional area, especially the arbitration proceedings and the regulatory cooperationAddress
Head Office
Am Justizzentrum, 7
Köln 50939
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Apr 2015
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 (issues: TTIP, politics-for-poeple-campaign, lobby transparency and ethic rules,part time)
Max Bank in 2014 actually only had a 65%-position at lobbycontrol, supplemented through a few hours spent by interns. With 75%, we decided for the range which is next.Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Nina Katzemich (Campaigner)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Ulrich Müller (Board member)
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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) and of the German network for Corporate Accountability (CorA, www.cora-netz.de)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Other financial info
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, LobbyControl has calculated that it spent an estimated 45.000 Euro in 2014 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
Overall we believe that this register is seriously flawed and inadequate as a tool to provide EU lobbying transparency. This register should quickly be replaced by one that ensures real transparency. LobbyControl calls for mandatory registration of all lobbyists targeting EU institutions. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying.
For more information, see www.alter-eu.org
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
Intergroup on integrity, transparency, corruption and organised crime (ITCO). LobbyControl is NOT a member of this intergroup.
Communication activities
Politics-for-People-Campaign during the elections to the European Parliament
Other 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.
On the EU level we especially lobby for more lobby transparency – that means especially improving the weak EU transparency register to make it mandatory and include names and meaningful financial information .
We also campaign for more balance EU expert groups, stricter rules against conflicts of interests (for example for MEPs) and for an end of privileged access for certain special interests.
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 - Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Joakim Larsson (Cabinet member)
- Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)