Secretariat of COMECE (Commission of the Episcopates of the European Union)

Membership of the European Laudato Si' Alliance/ELSi'A (a network of Church-related and religious organisations involved in the care for our common home and ecological justice

Observer in the European Sunday Alliance (a network of national Sunday Alliances, trade unions, civil society organisations and Churches and religious communities committed to raise awareness of the unique value of synchronised free time for our European societies)

Participation to an informal ecumenical group of Christian organisations working on migration and asylum issues.

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Does not represent commercial interests

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

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Freedom of religion and religious tolerance#Fighting against poverty

Contributions:

- "Regaining hope and solidarity" - Message of the Presidents of EU Bishops’ Conferences to the EU Institutions and Member States (November 2020)
- Consultation on Reinforcing Social Europe in view of the Action Plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights, both as COMECE and as part of the European Sunday Alliance Steering Group (November 2020)
- Joint COMECE-Justice & Peace Europe contribution on the future EU Arctic policy (November 2020)
- Consultation on a Long-term vision for rural areas (November 2020)
- Consultation on the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child (December 2020)
- Statement by the COMECE Working Group on Migration & Asylum on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (December 2020)
- “Making the Mediterranean again a place of peaceful encounter”, contribution on the future EU partnership with its Southern Neighbourhood (January 2021)
- Comments to the Draft EU Quick Guide to support places of worship (February 2021)
- Consultation on Sustainable Corporate Governance (February 2021)
- COMECE-Caritas Europa statement “The European Union and the challenges of Covid-19 vaccines - EU’s core principles demand equity in vaccine access“ (March 2021)
- Consultation on Health & Safety at Work - as part of the European Sunday Alliance Steering Group (March 2021)
- Consultation on Child sexual abuse online - detection, removal and reporting (April 2021)
- Consultation on Hate speech & hate crime – inclusion on list of EU crimes (April 2021)
- Consultation on Transparency Register Guidelines for Applicants and Registrants (June 2021)
- Consultation on the European Education Area initiative Pathways to School Success (September 2021)

Events:

- EP Conference on “Humanitarian exceptions to EU sanctions against Syria: why they don’t work out?”, co-organised with the EPP Unit on Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, CROCEU and CEC (11 November 2020)
- Webinar "The Ethical Challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic” (13 January 2021)
- Event on “Migrants, human dignity and resilience”, co-organised with Sant’Egidio BXL Europe (17 February 2021)
- Joint COMECE-FAFCE webinar “The Elderly and the Future of Europe” (1 March 2021)
- Annual data protection expert meeting (29 April 2021)
- COMECE Catholic Youth Convention on the Future of Europe (3, 10, 17 June 2021)
- Interfaith Youth Convention on the European Green Deal (1 October and 25 November 2021) - in partnership with other faith-based organisations
- Webinar Spirituality, Sustainability and Style on the New European Bauhaus (15 April 2021)
- Joint COMECE-Don Bosco International event "Vocational Education and Training for integral and inclusive education in Europe" (3 June 2021)

Webnews/press releases/press conferences; COMECE website; Social media; COMECE Annual Report 2020; videos.

Participation to:

- European AI Alliance
- EU Operators’ Forum on the protection of public spaces
- European Platform for Roma Inclusion.

Meeting of COMECE Youth Platform with Members of the Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans on the European Green Deal (10 July 2020)

E-meeting with the EUSR on Human Rights, Eamon Gimore (17 July 2020)

E-meeting with Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi in the context of the review of the EU partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood (18 January 2021)

EEAS roundtable with civil society organisations on religious freedom in third countries (11 February 2021)

E-meeting with Mr Michael Koehler, Deputy Director General at DG ECHO (24 February 2021)

European Data Protection Board Stakeholders list.

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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.

• Date	11 Sep 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Enlargement policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Ildikó Voller-Szenci (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 Feb 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Social Economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Portfolio	Jobs and Social Rights
  Attending	Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)

• Date	19 Sep 2022	Location	Online
  Subject	Social Economy and the SEAP implementation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Portfolio	Jobs and Social Rights
  Attending	Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Jun 2022	Location	VTC
  Subject	Celebrating the European Year of Youth
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner) Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet member)

• Date	14 Jan 2022	Location	virtual conference
  Subject	Article 17 dialogue
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas
  Portfolio	Promoting the European Way of Life
  Attending	Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President) Vangelis Demiris (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	association européenne de la pensée libre Committee of the Representatives of the Orthodox Churches in European Union Unie Vrijzinnige Verenigingen Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Church Council EGALE Egalité-laïcité-Europe The PR Office Conference of European Churches European Buddhist Union EKD-Büro Brüssel / EKD-Office Brussels Office of the Anglican Bishop in Europe The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - European Union and International Affairs Office

• Date	25 Nov 2021	Location	video-call
  Subject	Interfaith Convention on the European Green Deal
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)

• Date	29 Jun 2021	Location	VTC
  Subject	Exchange of views on the future of Lebanon
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner)

• Date	24 Jun 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	social policies and inclusion
  DG	Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  Attending	Joost Korte (Director-General)

• Date	10 Jun 2021	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	European Green Deal presentation and discussion
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Union for Progressive Judaism Conference of European Churches Alliance Maçonnique Européenne European Buddhist Union EKD-Büro Brüssel / EKD-Office Brussels Office of the Anglican Bishop in Europe Unie Vrijzinnige Verenigingen Committee of the Representatives of the Orthodox Churches in European Union HINDU FORUM EUROPE EGALE Egalité-laïcité-Europe association européenne de la pensée libre Grande Loge Féminine de France (Institut Maçonnique Européen)

• Date	18 Jan 2021	Location	VTC
  Subject	The state of play on the Southern Neighbourhood policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner)

• Date	07 Sep 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Green Paper on Ageing
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Portfolio	Democracy and Demography
  Attending	Astrid Dentler (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe

• Date	10 Jul 2020	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	Discussion on the European Green Deal with the Catholic Youth
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 Jun 2020	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	Preparation of youth dialogue meeting
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU Enlargement and opening of accession talks with Albania
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner)

• Date	25 Oct 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Meeting with the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU
  DG	Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom
  Attending	Michel Barnier (Head of Task Force)

• Date	08 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Agriculture
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Attending	Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

• Date	14 Sep 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Dialogue selon l’Art. 17
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Bernardus Smulders (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Jun 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EMU reflection paper
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Kai Wynands (Cabinet member)

• Date	12 Oct 2016	Location	Comece Secretariat
  Subject	European Pillar of Social Rights and its role in ensuring good working conditions and account for the changes on the labour market.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Nov 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	social issues – including youth unemployment, the impact of austerity policies on citizens and child poverty
  DG	Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  Attending	Michel Servoz (Director-General)