Overview
Lobbying Costs
475,000€
Financial year: Mar 2011 - Feb 2012
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 promote creativity
- Innovation
- Safety and 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.
- Campaigns for data protection rules compliance
- Encourages companies to compete in the provision of privacy safeguards for consumers online.
- Brings participants from across the Internet together to identify and promote best practices.
ICOMP’s work is guided by the following principles:
- Advertisers, web publishers and consumers all rely on healthy competition in online advertising to fund 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.
- The Internet and e-commerce will reach their full potential only if consumers are informed of the ways in which information about them is used and only if consumers are confident that their privacy will be respected online.
- Intellectual property rights foster creativity and innovation, including in the online environment, by enabling firms and individuals to enjoy the commercial fruits of their efforts.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
below
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 at 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 2011 - Feb 2012
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
475,000€
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 and the subsequent Interinstitutional Agreement signed between the European Parliament and the Commission on 22 July 2011, ICOMP has not excluded double-counting from its entry on the Transparency Register and has included appropriate expenditure, irrespective of whether 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 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.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
None declared
- Meetings