Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
VoteWatch CIC |
| Acronym: |
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| Legal status: |
Community Interest Company (UK)
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| Website address: |
http://www.votewatch.eu
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Sections
| Section: |
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions |
| and more precisely: |
Think tanks and research institutions |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Simon Hix
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| Position: |
Chairman of the Board |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Michiel van Hulten
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| Position: |
Managing Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
c/o European Institute, LSE Houghton Street
London WC2A2AE
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 2071934643 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
Brussels office:
c/o European Policy Centre
Residence Palace
155 Rue de la Loi
1040 Brussels
Belgium
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
VoteWatch CIC is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation. Its goal is to increase transparency in EU decision-making by making information on decision-making by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers available in a user-friendly format that can be easily accessed and digested by citizens, the media, NGOs, the private sector and anyone else interested in EU affairs. VoteWatch CIC believes that by making it easier for voters to follow the activities of the EU's legislative bodies, they will gain a better understanding of, and greater interest in, how EU politics affects their daily lives.
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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: |
8
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Complementary information:
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This includes all our Board members and staff. Of these 8 persons, only 1 works for VoteWatch Europe full-time.
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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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VoteWatch CIC operates a website (www.votewatch.eu) which tracks the voting records of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and some of their other key activities, such as legislative reports, amendments, speeches in plenary and parliamentary questions, as well as the voting records of EU Member States in the Council of Ministers.
The website is used by the media, interest groups and non-governmental organisations, MEPs and their assistants, officials in national political parties and in the political groups in the European Parliament and governments from the EU and elsewhere.
The main stakeholders of the company are the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, the media, interest groups, academia and members of the general public interested in EU affairs. Meetings were held with all of these stakeholders in 2011-2012 to improve the quality of information provided on the website and to expand its user base.
A report on the decision-making activities of the European Parliament and (as of July 2012) the Council is published every six months. A debriefing on the Strasbourg plenary sessions of the European Parliament is held every month.
VoteWatch CIC's interest representation activities are aimed at securing greater transparency in EU decision-making.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- General and Institutional Affairs
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
5 |
| 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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Financial data
| Financial year: |
07/2011
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06/2012
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Total budget:
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261,438
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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: |
261,438
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€
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- donations:
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150
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust :
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85,326
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€
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- Open Society Institute :
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120,000
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€
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- Income from paid services :
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10,400
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€
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- Carried over from previous year :
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45,562
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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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In-kind support was provided by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS - office space), Burson-Marsteller (PR advice, web strategy, publications, room bookings) and White and Case (legal advice).
Paid services (processed data, analyses, and/or trainings) were provided to BusinessEurope, Danish Energy Association, House of Democracy (the Netherlands), Foundation of the Institute of Public Affairs (Poland), OGP Europe, Open Society Institute Brussels, University of Wisconsin. All revenue from paid services is used to pay for our core activities.
Analyses and reports produced for clients are based solely on information collected and processed by VoteWatch CIC from the publicly available records of the European Institutions and other public sources.
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