Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jul 2014 - Jun 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
EU Transparency Register
596597913132-95 First registered on 03 Mar 2014
Goals / Remit
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally, through websites like Wikipedia. In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.
Main EU files targeted
The Foundation submitted a response to the European Commission Platforms Consultation in 2016.
Address
Head Office
149 New Montgomery St., 6th Floor
San Francisco 94105
UNITED STATES -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Jan Gerlach (Public Policy Manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Geoff Brigham (General Counsel)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jul 2014 - Jun 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
Our financial model is based on support from a broad number of individuals, rather than any specific large donors. During the 2014-2015 fiscal year, donations totaling 95% of our revenue came in the form of small donations from over two million individuals. This gives us the independence to represent individuals, rather than the interests of specific large donors.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
The Foundation has not been involved in other substantial EU policy initiatives during the previous year. Wikimedia chapters, formed by European Wikimedia volunteers, may have chosen individually to become involved in EU initiatives.
- Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
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.
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Date 09 Dec 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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- European Digital Rights
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- Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband
- epicenter.works - Plattform Grundrechtspolitik
- Avaaz Foundation
- Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Centre for Democracy & Technology, Europe
- HOMO DIGITALIS ΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΜΗ ΚΕΡΔΟΣΚΟΠΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ
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Date 14 Nov 2014 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with Mr Dimitar Dimitrov - Wikimedia Position Paper on EU Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
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