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: |
Mrs
Heather Roy
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| Position: |
Eurodiaconia Secretary General |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mrs
Heather Roy
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| Position: |
secretary general |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
166 Rue Joseph II
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 2 234 38 60 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Eurodiaconia is a federation of organisations, institutions and churches providing social and health services and education on a Christian values base in 21 European countries. We have three strategic aims: to ensure quality of life for all in a social Europe; link institutions of diaconia, social initiatives, and churches in Europe; and to be and enhance networks of competence.
Eurodiaconia is a member of the Social Platform. Rather than being merely interest representatives, NGO members of the Social Platform represent a structured voice of engaged citizens and civil society. They present the diversity of voices across Europe, channel viewpoints and values of thousands of people working at a grassroots level in the political decision-making process. Additionally, they make people and local organisations discuss European decision-making and propose appropriate measures to address these concerns.
In that respect, NGOs member of the Social Platform build European solidarity and help reduce the gap between politicians and citizens by enabling local organisations and people to participate in European decisions which have an impact on their lives.
Eurodiaconia is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. Eurodiaconia believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow guidelines that result from consultations with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobby transparency as well as experts of US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of Eurodiaconia, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on http://www.act4europe.org/register or http://www.alter-eu.org
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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: |
4
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
| First name
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Surname
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Start Date |
End Date |
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Heather
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Roy
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17/01/13
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13/11/13
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Laura
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JONES
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18/01/13
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13/11/13
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Catherine
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Storry
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15/03/13
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12/03/14
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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 Eurodiaconia, 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 institution.
Laura Jones, policy officer:
• Dossiers: Social Services of General Interest, Active Inclusion, EU Budget, Social Agenda, Lisbon Agenda, Goals of 2010 Year to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion
• Worked as assistant to MEP Terry Wynn (UK) in the European Parliament from 1/05 to 6/06
Clotilde Clark Foulquier, policy Officer
• Dossiers: Social Agenda, Lisbon Agenda, Goals for Social OMC, Goals for 2010 Year to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion
Catherine Storry Policy Officer
Dossiers Active inclusion, migration and roma. EU presidency co-ordination
Heather Roy, Secretary General, overall policy co-ordination and representation.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Budget
- Competition
- Culture
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Public Health
- Regional Policy
- Youth
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
0 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- HUNGARY
- ITALY
- LATVIA
- LITUANIA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- ROMANIA
- SLOVAKIA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
- ICELAND
- NORWAY
- SERBIA
- SWITZERLAND
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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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Social Platform. European-Anti-Poverty-Network (EAPN). Conference of European Churches (Associated Organisation)
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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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513,087
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€
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of which public financing:
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337,507
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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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- European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity :
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337,507
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€
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from other sources: |
175,580
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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175,580
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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, Eurodiaconia has calculated that it spent an estimated €20,465 in 2008 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.”
NGOs member of the Social Platform funding are used to help reduce the gap between politicians and citizens by enabling local organisations and people to participate in European decisions which have an impact on their lives. NGOs do so through their participatory structures and by organising working groups, seminars, workshops in which participants from all over Europe gather and propose appropriate measures to address their concerns. In that respect, their bottom-up and participatory approach build European solidarity.
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