Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Richter Regine
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Verpoest Berber
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| Position: |
Advocacy coordinator |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
1434/6 Na Rozcesti
Prague 19000
CZECH REPUBLIC
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| Telephone number: |
(+420) 274 822 150 |
| Fax number: |
(+420) 274 816 571 |
| Other contact information: |
Address of Brussels office:
Counter Balance c/o CEE Bankwatch Network
Mundo-B Building
Rue D’Edimbourg 26
1050 Bruxelles - Belgium
tel. + 32(0)2 893 08 61 / + 32(0)2 893 08 60
fax: +32(0)2 893 1035
info@counterbalance-eib.org
press@counterbalance-eib.org
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Counter Balance is a European coalition of development and environmental non-governmental organisations, formed in 2007 to specifically challenge the European Investment Bank. The groups involved have extensive experience working on development finance and the international financial institutions (IFIs) as well as campaigning to prevent negative impacts resulting from major infrastructure projects.
Counter Balance's mission is to make the EIB an open and progressive institution delivering on EU development goals and promoting sustainable development to empower people affected by its work.
Counter Balance includes members from:
* Central and Eastern Europe: CEE Bankwatch Network
* France: les Amis de la Terre
* Germany: urgewald and WEED
* Italy: Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale
* Netherlands: BothEnds
* United Kingdom: Bretton Woods Project
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
2
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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On behalf of Counter Balance the persons listed below have had, during the reporting period, four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 50 percent or more of their working time on behalf of Counter Balance carrying out such activities:
Desislava Stoyanova, coordinator
Berber Verpoest, media coordinator
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Environment
- Transport
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
6 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- CEE Bankwatch Network (14 members)
- urgewald (0 members)
- Action Aid (Bretton Woods Project) (0 members)
- Mani Tese (Campagna per la Riforma della Banka Mondiale) (0 members)
- Friends of the Earth France (0 members)
- Both Ends (0 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- HUNGARY
- ITALY
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- SLOVAKIA
- UNITED KINGDOM
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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N/A
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
-
01/2012
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Total budget:
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40,818
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€
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of which public financing:
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673
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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673
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
40,145
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€
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- donations:
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40,145
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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50000
€ - 100000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, CEE Bankwatch Network has calculated that it spent an estimated 70,720 € (19 % of our total budget) in 2010 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
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