Overview
Lobbying Costs
541,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Nederlands Olympisch Comité * Nederlandse Sport Federatie (NOC*NSF)
EU Transparency Register
269130025030-81 First registered on 15 Dec 2016
Goals / Remit
The Netherlands Olympic Committee * Netherlands Sports Confederations (NOC*NSF) is the umbrella body for organized sports in the Netherlands. The 95 member organizations, including 76 sport federations, account for around 27,700 sport clubs with almost 6 million members, who make up almost a third of the Dutch population.
Sport in the Netherlands
Participation in sport
The proportion of the Dutch public who perform sport on a regular basis is about 65%. The aim is to boost public sport participation to a level of 75% in the coming years. The better part of organised sport in the Netherlands is formed by the sport clubs at local level. The Netherlands is a country with a strong sport club culture. No fewer than 27,000 sport clubs with 5.7 million members can be found here. They account for almost a third of the population. The sport clubs are members of 76 national sport federations.
The sport club
An important characteristic of a Dutch sport club is that it based on volunteerism. Equally important, a sport club is a democratic organisation run by the members themselves. Most sport clubs are members of national sport federations, which, in turn, are members of NOC*NSF. A sport club has as its primary aim to enable its members to take part in sport. That said, and in the face of a changing society, a growing number of clubs are beginning to resemble community-services organisations.
However, over a third of all sport participants in the Netherlands perform sport in a self-organised group, together with friends, relatives or acquaintances. Moreover, commercial sport providers play an increasing role in offering sport facilities. Remarkably, many people opt to use more than one organisational setup to pursue the sport of their choosing.
Government
The Dutch government invests in sport. It also uses sport for larger goals such as to reach out to left-behind groups, promote health and social cohesion and create a dynamic society. It also welcomes that Dutch athletes fly the flag for their country at international sport events and thus promote the Dutch sporting culture and our nation in general.
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport is a very important source of sport funding as well. The Ministry gives subsidies and grants for the benefit of sport-related themes like integration health and well-being. The government also invests in supporting the infrastructure of sport. For instance, elite level coaches and talent coaches receive direct funding from the government. At local level, sport is developed through programmes and projects. Major complementaryMain EU files targeted
All work of the commission on sports
Work Plan of EU Sport Ministers
Erasmus + programm
EU Competition policy
Digital single market
Research/policy on Gambling
Taxation
Free movement of workers
DataprotectionAddress
Head Office
Papendallaan 60
Arnhem 68AH
NETHERLANDS -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
People spent less than 25% on this work
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Emiel Krijt (Advisor Public Affairs NOC*NSF)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Gerard Dielessen (Secretary General NOC*NSF)
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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
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
541,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
81,711 € (Source: Erasmus + Nationale Sportweek/EWoS-NL, Erasmus+ INSEP dual career)
Other financial info
Verwijzing: gebaseerd op de totale kosten van het project Nationale Sportweek 2016, bron begroting 30 september 2015. Dit binnen de overall begroting van NOC*NSF.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
The 14th Dutch National Sports Week, as part of the European Week of Sports, was from September 9 to 17 in 2017.
The National Sports Week in the Netherlands is a national sporting event which turns the spotlight on sports for a week, showing just how healthy and more importantly, how much fun it can be to take part in sports and physical activity. This sporting week has been organized by NOC*NSF (with participation of 40 Sports Federations, with 9000 organized sports activities and 1.000.000 Dutch participants during the week) for the past 13 years with the intention of acquainting more people with a sport that suits them, and subsequently guiding them towards their local sports club or local sports initiative. In 2016 for the first time the National Sports Week had taken place form 17-25 September instead of April. This was a big and positief change for the Netherlands, but offers new opportunities as well, for example positioning this week as the start of the sports season of 2017-2018.
Organizing the National Sports Week is one of the initiatives of NOC*NSF that enhances the positive contribution sports make to people and society. We contribute to the main ambition of the NOC*NSF Unit Sports Participation to increase the sports participation in the Netherlands from 65% to 75%. This means one million extra citizens to ‘#BeActive’. This challenge links closely with the objective of the European Week of Sport to raise awareness and promote participation in sports and physical activity.Other activities
Kees Sijbesma, Member Advisory Board EWoS
Meetings
Meetings
1 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 01 Jun 2023 Location Amsterdam Subject Hydrogen Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Diederik Samsom (Cabinet member)
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