Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€
Financial year: Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
The Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP)
EU Transparency Register
94410281407-45 First registered on 23 Mar 2009
Goals / Remit
ICOMP’s mission is to promote widespread support for principles that are essential to a healthy online environment. Our key goals are to encourage competition, transparency, data privacy, security and respect for intellectual property protection. Furthermore, ICOMP brings together participants from across the Internet to identify and promote best practices aimed at stimulating creativity and innovation and foster an online environment founded on security, respect and trust. ICOMP’s members collectively support principles which they believe promote:
- Healthy competition in online advertising to fund online innovation and content.
- Consumer understanding of the ways in which information about them is used and how consumer privacy will be respected to help Internet and e-commerce reach their full potential.
- Intellectual property rights to foster creativity and innovation by enabling firms and individuals to capture the commercial value of their efforts.
ICOMP’s wo (...)Main EU files targeted
ICOMP follows EU initiatives and policies on European Digital Agenda, Digital Single Market, EU Data Protection Reform, Competition Policy, Copyright and IPRs.
Address
Head Office
ICOMP Secretariat (C/O Preiskel & Co LLP) 4 King's Bench Walk Temple
London EC4Y 7DL
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
ICOMP Secretariat (C/O Preiskel & Co LLP) 4 King's Bench Walk Temple
London EC4Y 7DL
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
ICOMP has identified some 2 people in total who are from time to time involved in providing varying levels of support on activities falling with the scope of the Register. These include inter alia Timothy Cowen (ICOMP’s Legal Counsel) and Michael Weber (Director and Chair of ICOMP).
ICOMP is currently in the process of reviewing its membership and there may be further members who may, from time to time, need to become involved in providing varying levels of support on activities falling with the scope of the Register. At this stage, however, there are no other known individuals.
All those individuals included in the data provided above spend significantly less than 25% of their time on activities falling under the scope of the Register (and, normally, less than 5% of their time per week on average on activities falling under the scope of the Register).Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
ICOMP is a member of the following organisations (which are not political or lobbying organisations):
SUMA-EV (Association for Free Access to Knowledge) - see http://suma-ev.de
PLUS Coalition - To simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights - see http://www.useplus.comMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
0€ - 10,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
ICOMP promotes the widespread support for principles that are essential to a healthy online environment and for a more competitive, transparent, privacy friendly, and secure online marketplace. It does so though inter alia sponsoring and organising conferences and press roundtables, issuing policy briefs and commissioning consumer research. During the period for which ICOMP has reported financial data (see below), ICOMP’s specific activities falling under the scope of the Register included:
- Maintaining ICOMP’s blog (http://www.i-comp.org/blog/)
- Meeting with Members of the European Parliament and with Commission officials.
- Circulation of newsletters.
- Organising events in Brussels.
- Organising conferences, webinars and press-round tables.
- Issuing policy briefs and discussion papers.Other activities
ICOMP is also a member of the following organisations (which are not political or lobbying organisations):
SUMA-EV (Association for Free Access to Knowledge) - see http://suma-ev.de
PLUS Coalition - To simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights - see http://www.useplus.com
Meetings
Meetings
None declared