Overview
Lobbying Costs
275,000€
Financial year: Mar 2013 - Feb 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
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 goal is to promote widespread support for principles that are essential to a healthy online environment, with the overall objective of achieving sustainable growth on the Internet consistent with the rule of law, namely through the encouragement of competition and transparency. ICOMP’s other key goals are:
- Data privacy
- Respect for intellectual property
- Adoption of best practices to stimulate creativity & innovation
- Fostering of an online environment founded on security, respect & trust
In order to achieve these goals, ICOMP:
- Helps to educate and inform stakeholders and decision-makers as regards the functioning of the online marketplace and the application of competition rules.
- Encourages companies to act responsibly with user data and to compete on the basis of user privacy safeguards.
- Brings participants from across the Internet together to identify and promote best practices.
ICOMP’s work is guided by the following principles:
- Competition: Advertisers, web publishers and consumers all rely on healthy competition in online advertising to generate online innovation and content. Online advertising will continue to serve as the engine that drives the online economy, but only if vibrant competition in this critical sector is preserved.
- Transparency: Companies benefiting from a very strong market position can sometimes achieve the status of “gate-keepers to the Internet”. There is a special obligation on such companies to be completely transparent about their business practices.
- Security: The Internet and e-commerce will reach their full potential only if consumers are informed of the ways in which their information is used and are confident that their privacy will be respected.
- IPR: Intellectual property rights foster creativity, innovation and online growth by enabling firms and individuals to enjoy the commercial fruits of their hard work and investments.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
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London WC1N 3XY
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People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Karen Massin (Chief Operating Officer, Burson Marsteller, Brussels)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
Subcategory
Other similar organisations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Mar 2013 - Feb 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
275,000€
Other financial info
In response to question 2 above and in keeping with the guidance provided by the Commission in its Communication of October 2009, the subsequent Interinstitutional Agreement signed between the European Parliament and the Commission on 22 July 2011, and the Transparency Register Compliance Guidelines of 4 October 2012, ICOMP has not excluded double-counting from its entry on the Transparency Register and has included relevant expenditure, even if this has been reported elsewhere in the Register.
The financial information provided by ICOMP in its entry relates to the turnover attributable to the activities falling within the scope of the Transparency Register as defined in Part IV of the Interinstitutional Agreement, i.e., activities carried out with the objective of directly or indirectly influencing the formulation or implementation of policy and the decision-making processes of the EU institutions. ICOMP has also included in this figure the cost of activities relating to its organisation of events and public gatherings.
ICOMP is a formal complainant before the European Commission in administrative proceedings in Case 39.740 Google. For this reason, turnover relevant to activities directly pertaining to this case have been excluded from the scope of ICOMP’s entry on the Transparency Register in accordance with the exclusions set out in paragraph 10(a) of the Interinstitutional Agreement. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared