The Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace

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Registration as it was on 23 Mar 2012
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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

  • 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
    UNITED KINGDOM
  • 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)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Other similar organisations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • 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.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None declared

    Communication activities

    None declared

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    None declared

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