Overview
Lobbying Costs
350,000€
Financial year: Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
9
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Red Hat Limited (Red Hat)
EU Transparency Register
741186216712-07 First registered on 23 Mar 2015
Goals / Remit
Red Hat is a global leader in providing open source software technologies to enterprise customers. These offerings include our core enterprise operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, our enterprise middleware platform, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, as well as our virtualization, cloud, and storage offerings and other Red Hat enterprise technologies.
We employ an open source software development and licensing model that uses the collaborative input of a worldwide community of contributors to develop and enhance software. We actively participate in this community-oriented development process, often in a leadership role, and leverage it to create our Red Hat- and JBoss-branded enterprise technologies.
We believe that the open source development and licensing model offers advantages for Red Hat and our customers over proprietary software development and licensing models. Through the open source development model, we leverage a global community of developers and users, whose collective resources and knowledge supplement the developers we employ. As a result, we believe we are able to offer enhancements, fixes and upgrades more quickly and with less development cost than is typical of many proprietary software vendors. In turn, our customers are able to take advantage of the quality and value of open source software, which we help develop, aggregate, integrate, test, certify, deliver, maintain and support for their enterprise use.Main EU files targeted
1. European Commission efforts to implement a Digital Single Market.
2. European Commission Cloud Computing Strategy
3. Cybersecurity Strategy for the European Union; implementation on the Directive on Network and Information Security
4. Public Consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules
5. EU initiative to promote the use of standards in public procurement (Digital Agenda action 23)Address
Head Office
6700 Cork Airport Business Park
Kinsale Road
Cork
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 25% 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 16 Mar 2016
Name Start date End Date James LOVEGROVE 18 Jul 2023 17 Jul 2024 James LOVEGROVE 04 Jun 2019 30 May 2020 James LOVEGROVE 09 Feb 2018 09 Feb 2019 James LOVEGROVE 02 Feb 2017 03 Feb 2018 Paul Brownell 28 Mar 2015 26 Mar 2016 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Paul Brownell (EMEA Public Policy Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Michael O'Neill (European Finance Senior Director)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Open Forum Europe (www.openforumeurope.org); European Committee for Interoperable Systems (www.ecis.eu); Trans Atlantic Business Council (www.translatlaticbusiness.org); Computer and Communications Industry Association (www.ccianet.org); Free Software Foundation Europe (www.fsfe.org).
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
350,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
593,175 € (Source: The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020); SERECA - Secure Enclaves for REactive Cloud Applications)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Against lock-in: building open ICT systems by making better use of standards in public procurement (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-standards). Communication and guideline publication in 2013 and ongoing project.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
9 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 19 Oct 2022 Location Brussels Subject Interoperability Regulation and open source Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn Portfolio Budget and Administration Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 May 2021 Location Online - Meet Google Subject - Open source and OSPO (Open Source Programme Office) - RedHat's interest in GaiaX project - Support to DIGIT with e.g. master classes and the work with the various Units - DIGIT DG's participation in Red Hat’s European Forum (November 2021) DG Informatics Attending - Mario Campolargo (Director-General)
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Date 11 Dec 2020 Location Webex Subject 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Strategy; meeting for possible collaboration opportunities DG Informatics Attending - Mario Campolargo (Director-General)
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Date 05 Jun 2019 Location Brussels Subject Open source, open innovation, digital skills Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Marika Lautso-Mousnier (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 May 2018 Location Brussels Subject Open source software Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Sep 2017 Location Brussels Subject Cybersecurity, Open Source Software Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Jan 2017 Location Brussels Subject DSM general Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Maximilian Strotmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Jun 2016 Location BXL Subject cPPP DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Bodo Lehmann (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 20 Apr 2016 Location Sillicon Valley, USA Subject Open Source and case studies from public administrations DG Informatics Attending - Gertrud Ingestad (Director-General)