Overview
Lobbying Costs
76,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 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 do research on lobbying, PR campaigns and think tanks and inform the public how they influence politics and media and where this 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. 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 real 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.Main EU files targeted
The main objective of LobbyControl in the EU in 2016 was to promote transparency of the EU decision-making process and effective ethics regulations for EU decision-makers.
Issues covered in 2016 -17:
- Proposal for an Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory Transparency Register by the EU Commission
- Revision of the Code of Conduct for Commissioners
- "Transparency, accountability and integrity in the EU institutions". Reference : 2015/2041(INI) Own-initiative report procedure. AFCO. Sven GIEGOLD
- Regulation on Real Driving Emissions Tests
- special committee of inquiry into the Dieselgate scandal
- Trade policy
- Generally: corporate political influence at EU levelAddress
Head Office
Am Justizzentrum 7
Köln 50939
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Jul 2017
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 (50%) (issues: TTIP, CETA, Glyphosate, Car Emissions)
Nina Katzemich (50%) (issues: EU Lobby Regulation, EU ethics rules, Glyphosate, Car Emissions)Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Nina Katzemich (EU-Campaigner)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Heidi Bank (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 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
76,000€
Other financial info
LobbyControl does not have a Brussels office.
2016 we received money from the following foundations and partners:
- € 47.546 Olin gemeinnützige GmbH http://olingmbh.net/projekte.html
- € 80.000 Campact E.V. https://www.campact.de/
Overall we believe that this register is still 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)
None
Communication activities
- Report "Corporate interests dominate EU lobbying on financial services" (2017)
- ALTER-EU-Complaint to the Ombudsman on Revolving Doors (2016 and 2017)
- Report "Secret Meetings and missing law firms" on law firms not registering in the lobbyregister (2016)
- Report "Member state offices in Brussels: wide open to corporate lobbyists" (2016)
- Lobbfacts.eu
- Study "Dangerous regulatory duet"
- Factsheet Regulatory Cooperation in TTIP and CETA
- Von NAFTA zu CETA: Konzernlobbyimus durch die Hintertür
- Making sense of CETAOther 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 balanced EU expert groups, stricter rules against conflicts of interests (for example for MEPs) and for an end of privileged access for certain special interests.
- Moreover we engage in certain fields like trade politics or car emissions ruling, 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 - Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
- Michelle Sutton (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)