Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Federation of European Aquaculture Producers |
| Acronym: |
FEAP
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| Legal status: |
Foreign Association (non-profit)
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| Website address: |
http://www.feap.info
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Arnault Chaperon
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| Position: |
President |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Courtney Hough
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| Position: |
General Secretary |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
9 rue de Paris
Liege B-4020
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 43382995 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 3379846 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The aims of the Federation are the following;
a. to develop and establish a common policy on questions relating to the production and the commercialisation of aquaculture species that are reared commercially.
b. to make known to the appropriate authorities the common policies envisaged above.
c. to promote the development of skills and knowledge within European aquaculture
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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: |
9
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Complementary information:
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Activities followed by the FEAP Management Committee (President + 4 Vice-Presidents + Past-President)and the FEAP Secretariat (3 persons)
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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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The core subject matter of the activities of the FEAP in this respect are to provide responses to information requests or to present consolidated opinions on matters affecting the professional fish farming sector to interested bodies at European level (e.g. the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture, the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament).
In the last year, FEAP has participated in official consultation efforts concerning the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy and related instruments, including the Common Organisation of the Markets for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products and the European Fisheries Fund.
The FEAP has also participated in European RTDi Framwework projects, principally support and coordination actions, where the FEAP guarantees dissemination and communication actions targeting the profession and publlic society.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Enterprise
- Environment
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Food Safety
- Internal Market
- Research and Technology
- Trans-European Networks
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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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FEAP is a member of the European Commission's Advisory Committee on fisheries and aquaculture (ACFA). It also participates in other EC Committees, notably concerning animal health and environmental issues.
FEAP is a a member of the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATIP), for whom the FEAP Secretariat provides support facilities.
It is member of AquaTnet (primarily a specialised research/training network). FEAP also participates in the Aquaculture Committee of the General Fisheries Council of the Mediterranean and the sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries of the FAO.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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12/2012
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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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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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60,000 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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FEAP's finances are assured principally by Membership Fees paid by National Aquaculture Associations.
The FEAP receives a subsidy for assuring the preparation and attendance of representative aquaculture associations for treating ietms and issues raised for the Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (ACFA) of which it is a member. This subsidy covers the travel (real) and subsistence (forfeit)of participants in these meetings.
Additional finance is obtained on an irregular basis through participation in RTD or development projects that serve to support or develop European fish farming.
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