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Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
World Fair Trade Organization - Europe (WFTO-Europe)
EU Transparency Register
452862736936-07 First registered on 09 Jan 2020
Goals / Remit
WFTO-Europe has a vision of a world in which trade structures and practices have been transformed to work in favour of the marginalised producers and artisans and to promote sustainable development and justice. WFTO-Europe aims at building a fairer world for everyone, where fair trade and trade justice are the keystones to challenge the problems of the current economic model.
WFTO-Europe has a double mission:
a) To advocate for more equity in trade and economic relationships at European level.
b) To promote Fair Trade in Europe, through the implementation of a credible and sustainable Fair Trade system.
The aims of the Association are:
-to be the representative organisation of Fair Trade organisations on a European level.
-to promote the concept of Fair Trade in Europe, as defined by WFTO Global.
-to foster collaboration and exchanges between member organisations.
-to provide support services to its member organisations and to the Fair Trade movement
in general.Main EU files targeted
International Trade, Trade Deals, Access to the Single Market
Common Agricultural Policy
Labour Rights,
Human Rights and Human Rights Due Diligence
Environmental Policy and Green Deal
Sustainable Development
Public Procurement
Competition LawAddress
Head Office
Rue Washington, 40
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Washington, 40
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The organisation also counts on the support of 2 (two) interns.
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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
World Fair Trade Organization (Global)
Fair Trade Advocacy Office
FAIBMember 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
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€ - 24,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Erasmus + 23,500€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant Erasmus + 10,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount fair trade advocacy office 10,000€ - 24,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name fair trade advocacy office Closed year Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Other financial info
The money paid to the Fair Trade Advocacy Office consist of membership fees only, no direct payment for services is ever made for their work in representing us and the broader Fair Trade movement towards the EU institutions and policy-makers.
We are beneficiaries to an Erasmus+ and have received a grant from this in 2022 and 2023. We have applied for other, similar EU grants and are waiting to hear whether they will be granted to us or not in the current financial year. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
In December 2020, WFTO-Europe finalised our engagement in the 'Trade Fair, Live Fair' (TFLF) project funded by the European Commission through the DEAR fund. The aim of the project was raising awareness and mobilising the European Public to advance consumption patterns that nurture the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This Action was built on the central insight, developed from the consortium members’ own extensive research and experience, that the continuing and endemic poverty among many producers and workers in developing countries is the direct result of imbalances of power in supply chains. However, the working and living conditions of those producers and workers are largely unknown to the EU Public, despite the strong interdependence between both. At the heart of this is the analysis that only through citizens’ better understanding of how supply chains work can they foster the change necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): change in their own behaviour, and the behaviour of both government and corporations. The project involved some activities with engaging MEPs and promoting policy recommendations towards the EC, e.g. in the form of a Civil Society Shadow EU Strategy on Textiles, Garments, Leather and Footwear.
Moreover, the WFTO-Europe organised a conference in the framework of the Belgian Fair Trade Week, in collaboration with the Trade for Development Centre of the Belgian Development Agency, titled "A Fair and Sustainable Business Model is Possible".
WFTO-Europe continues the efforts of raising awareness on the points above and to promote policy recommendations, as outlined above, also in various different forms, though at a lower scale since the end of the project. However, our direct involvement with EU institutions remain limited to submitting feedback to EC public consultations, and occasionally attending workshops by the EC when invited or attending joint meetings with the EC together with some of our close partners in civil society.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 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 22 Jan 2021 Location Videoconference Subject sustainable and inclusive business models through EU external action Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
- Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
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