Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| Acronym: |
RICS Europe
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| Legal status: |
Professional Body
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| Website address: |
http://www.ricseurope.eu
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Other similar organisations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mrs
Liliane Van Cauwenbergh
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| Position: |
Managing Director RICS EMEA |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Sander Scheurwater
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| Position: |
Head of External Affairs & EU Liaision |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
12 Great George Street Parliament Square
London SW1 3AD
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 8703331600 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
RICS Europe
Rue Ducale 67
1000 Brussels
0032 2 733 10 19
0032 2 742 97 48
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
With the property market accounting for as much as 20% of the Gross National Product in most countries, it is obviously important to ensure that the sector is properly regulated. It is in everybody's interest that ethical and professional standards are set and maintained.
Operating out of 146 countries, RICS is the leading organisation of its kind in the world for professionals in property, land, construction and environmental assets.
RICS membership is only awarded to individuals who are prepared to maintain exemplary standards - for the public advantage.
The key roles of RICS are to:
-Regulate and promote the profession
Maintain the highest educational and professional standards
-Protect clients and consumers through a strict code of ethics
-Provide impartial advice, analysis and guidance
Through its proactive policy, public affairs and press programme, RICS aims to take the lead in key issues of national and international significance. The organisation underpins its opinion with credible, authoritative research, and with economic analysis that reinforces its position as the trusted and respected commentator of the property world.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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- sub-national
- national
- European
- global
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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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- Financial Services issues such as Mortgage Credit, Open Real Estate Funds, Valuation related issues, etc.
-Energy with particular focus on Energy Performance of Buildings
- Construction
- Internal Market Issues such as Services, Mutual Recognition of Qualifications, Code of Conduct, etc.
- Consumer Protection Issues such as Collective Consumer Redress, Consumer Acquis, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Timeshare Directive etc.
- Urban Planning and Housing
- Environmental issues such as Waste, Water, Soil, Renewables, etc.
- Humanitarian Aid issues such as Disaster Management
- EU Funding
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enterprise
- Environment
- Humanitarian Aid
- Internal Market
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
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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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At European level RICS is member of:
- The European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP)
- The European Housing Forum (EHF)
- The European Real Estate Forum
- The Association of European Building Surveyors and Construction Experts (AEEBC)
- The European Construction Forum (ECF)
- The Coalition for Energy Savings
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
08/2011
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07/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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150000
€ - 200000
€
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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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100,000 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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