Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Access Info Europe |
| Acronym: |
Access Info
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| Legal status: |
Association, registered in Spain
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| Website address: |
http://www.access-info.org
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Daniel Bezares
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| Position: |
President |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Helen Darbishire
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| Position: |
Executive Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
8 Cava de San Miguel, 4º centro
Madrid 28005
SPAIN
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| Telephone number: |
(+34) 913 656 558 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Access Info Europe is a human rights organisation dedicated to promoting and protecting the right of access to information in Europe as a tool for defending civil liberties and human rights, for facilitating public participation in decision-making and for holding governments and intergovernmental bodies accountable.
Access Info's mission is that the right of access to information be enshrined in law and work in practice.
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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: |
3
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Complementary information:
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The following persons are involved in promoting the transparency of the EU on a regular basis:
Helen Darbishire
Pamela Bartlett Quintanilla
Alfredo Carda
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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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Access Info Europe acts to promote and protect the right of access to information (freedom of information).
This includes the right of access to EU documents as established by Article 15 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
The relevant EU legal framework includes:
* Regulation 1049/2001 on Access to EU documents
* Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information
* Directive 95/46/EC on personal data protection
As a human rights organisation we also join other actions in promotion of human rights, including the right to freedom of expression, the right to privacy, and other rights affected by EU rules, policies and practices. Access Info also supports initiatives to increase public participation in decision-making at the EU level.
SPECIFIC ADVOCACY AND LOBBYING ACTIVITIES
* Campaign directed at MEPs and the Council of the EU regarding proposed reforms to the EU's access to documents rules - Access Info is calling for a stronger rather than more limited legal framework for the right of access to documents and information. For more information see http://www.access-info.org/en/european-union
* Engagement with DG Trade over the reform of its internal guidelines for processing and responding to access to information requests. This exchange has included a review of the previous "Vademecum" and preparation of comments on the current version are underway.
* Access Info Europe regularly files information requests with the EU on a range of topics and publishes the results. Recent reports can be found here: http://www.access-info.org/en/european-union
* Access Info is currently engaged in litigation against the Council before the General Court in a case in which we are seeking to access documents relating to reform of the EU's access to documents rules. See news of the case in the Official Journal of the European Communities, Case T-233/09, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2009:205:0040:0041:EN:PDF
* Involvement in campaigns to increase the transparency of the EU's decision-making process, including via the ALTER EU network
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Climate Action
- Consumer Affairs
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Enlargement
- Environment
- External Relations
- Food Safety
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Humanitarian Aid
- Information Society
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Regional Policy
- Trans-European Networks
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
10 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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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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Freedom of Information Advocates Networks (www.foiadvocates.net)
European Civil Liberties Network (www.ecln.org)
United Nations Convention against Corruption Coalition (http://www.uncaccoalition.org/)
Alter-EU (www.alter-eu.org)
European Coalition for Corporate Justice (www.corporatejustice.org)
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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12/2011
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Total budget:
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303,246
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€
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of which public financing:
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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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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
303,246
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€
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- donations:
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303,246
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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
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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A summary of Access Info Europe's annual accounts can be found at http://www.access-info.org/en/reports-and-financial-info
Access Info operates on the bases of grants and donations. We do not accept anonymous donations over 100 Euros.
Under Access Info's transparency policy, anyone may file a request for further information about our finances and the bills and receipts related to our expenditure for each year are available for inspection in the Access Info office in Madrid.
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