Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
EuroGeographics |
| Acronym: |
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| Legal status: |
AISBL (International non-profit association in Belgium)
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| Website address: |
http://www.eurogeographics.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
Dave Lovell
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| Position: |
Secretary General & Executive Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Derek Earnshaw
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| Position: |
European Affairs & Representation |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
76 rue du Nord
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 28 88 71 93 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 28 88 71 94 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
EuroGeographics is the membership association, and representative body, of the cadastral, mapping and land registry authorities of Europe. We currently bring together 56 definitive information authorities from over 40 countries, providing a strong, unified and well-respected voice. We provide a single point of contact for communication with these authorities, our members, and a platform for the exchange of information and best practice.
EuroGeographics and its members are developing an infrastructure to integrate their information to deliver the definitive European Location Framework. By sharing best practice and creating standard data specifications and policies, EuroGeographics aims to ensure that members’ geo-information is fully interoperable. This will contribute to Europe the quality geo - information it needs to support smart sustainable growth to support the Europe 2020 strategy.
The Association pursues activities of a not-for-profit nature and of international character in accordance with the title III of the law of 27 June, 1921 on non-profit organizations, non-profit international organizations and foundations.
The Purpose of the Association is to further the development of the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (the European Location Framework) through collaboration in the area of geo- information (which includes geographic information, topographic, cadastre, land, location, spatial & mapping information) along with the representation of the EuroGeographics’ membership and its members capabilities.
The Association is active in Europe and between Europe and other regions or other parts of the world. This co-operation aims to the following objectives:
• provide a single interface to Europe's national Mapping and Cadastral Agencies ;
• facilitate a knowledge exchange network ;
• strengthen and develop the network of committed, motivated Members, encourage collaboration and professional recognition;
• provide an information service for Members, stakeholders and civil society;
• participate in EU programmes and policies including legislative development;
• promote Members national and pan-European products and services, and their role in providing the reference data for the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI); and European Location Framework (E.L.F.);
• as appropriate; create, maintain, distribute, interoperable reference datasets and related services to support cross border or pan-European requirements and to further the progress towards the ESDI;
• achieve interoperability of our Members’ national land and geographic information, including the realization of a European Location Framework (E.L.F) to provide Europe and the EU with a valuable information asset to support its long term strategies;
• promote EuroGeographics as the authoritative voice for geographic information in Europe and the EU.
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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: |
1.5
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Complementary information:
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EuroGeographics core activity includes: carrying out funded projects related to delivering the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (European Location Framework); the licensing of geo-information products and services based on our Member’s data; the Representation of our members and their capabilities. Each of these is underpinned by our knowledge exchange networks, internal & external communications, governance structure and administration. The Association has a FTE staff of seven. The estimate of persons involved in Register activities is based on the contributions of two staff (and potential from a third) plus the President, Directors and experts to Register activities taking account of their work on the Association’s other activities. This estimate shows a small reduction on last year though we expect it to rise during the year (when we can update as appropriate).
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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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Derek
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EARNSHAW
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15/02/13
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13/02/14
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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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EuroGeographics undertook representation activity in two main areas relating to:
i) Public sector information, in particular the review of the Public Sector Information Directive; and ii) the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES), in particular the contribution of members to the in-situ element and data policy.
In addition the Association contributed to discussions on; i) the contribution of geo- information to the Digital Agenda (DAE) ii) towards a common EU Location Strategy iii) the geographic aspects of the ICT-PSP and funding programmes.
We expect the coming period will see increased activity around the case for a European Locations Strategy, the delivery of a European Location Framework, and explanation of the contributions our members make to delivery of European policy and benefits to society.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Enterprise
- Environment
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Regional Policy
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
56 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- Agency of Legalisation Urbanisation & Integration (Albania) (1 members)
- State Committee of the Real Property Cadastre (Armenia) (1 members)
- Federal Agency for Metrology and Surveying (Austria) (1 members)
- National Geographic Institute (Belgium) (1 members)
- General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (Belgium) (1 members)
- Geodetic & Real Property Affairs (Bosnia & Herzegovina) (1 members)
- Geodetic & Property Affairs of Republic of Srpska(Bosnia & Herzegovina (1 members)
- Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Agency (Bulgaria) (1 members)
- State Geodetic Administration (Croatia) (1 members)
- Cyprus Department of Lands and Surveys (1 members)
- Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (1 members)
- Danish Geodata Agency (1 members)
- Estonian National Landboard (1 members)
- National Land Survey of Finland (1 members)
- Finish Geodetic Institute (1 members)
- National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (France) (1 members)
- Agency of Real Estate Cadastre (FYROM) (1 members)
- National Agency of Public Registry (Georgia) (1 members)
- Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Germany) (1 members)
- Surveying Authorities of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany (1 members)
- Ordnance Survey (Great Britain) (1 members)
- Hellenic Mapping and Cadastral Organisation (Greece) (1 members)
- Helenic Military Geographical Service (Greece) (1 members)
- Hellenic Cadastre (Greece) (1 members)
- Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (Hungary) (1 members)
- Geoinformation Service of Hungarian Defence Forces (1 members)
- National Land Survey of Iceland (1 members)
- Registers of Iceland (1 members)
- Ordnance Survey Ireland (1 members)
- Italian Military Geographic Institute (1 members)
- National agency for cadastre, cartography, land registration, real est (1 members)
- Kosovo Cadastral Agency (1 members)
- State Land service (Latvia) (1 members)
- Latvian Geospatial Information Agency (1 members)
- National Land Service under the Ministry of Agriculture (Lithuania) (1 members)
- State Enterprise Centre of Registers (Lithuania) (1 members)
- Administration of the Cadastre and Topography (Luxembourg) (1 members)
- Malta Environment & Planning Authority (1 members)
- State Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre (Moldova) (1 members)
- Republic Of Montenegro Ministry Of Finance Department Of Real Estates (1 members)
- Land and Property Services (Northern Ireland) (1 members)
- Norwegian Mapping Authority (1 members)
- Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (Poland) (1 members)
- Portuguese Geographical Institute (1 members)
- National Agency for Cadastre and and Registration (Romania) (1 members)
- Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre & Cartography (Russia (1 members)
- Republic Geodetic Authority (Serbia) (1 members)
- Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic (1 members)
- Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (1 members)
- National Geographic Institute (Spain) (1 members)
- General Directorate for the Cadastre (Spain) (1 members)
- The Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority (1 members)
- Federal Office of Topography (Switzerland) (1 members)
- Cadastre, Land Registry and MappingAgency (The Netherlands) (1 members)
- General Command of Mapping (Turkey) (1 members)
- State Service of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (Ukraine (1 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- BULGARIA
- CYPRUS
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LATVIA
- LITUANIA
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALTA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- ROMANIA
- SLOVAKIA
- SLOVENIA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
- ALBANIA
- ARMENIA
- BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
- CROATIA
- GEORGIA
- ICELAND
- MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF
- MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF
- MONTENEGRO
- NORWAY
- RUSSIA, FEDERATION OF
- SERBIA
- SWITZERLAND
- TURKEY
- UKRAINE
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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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EuroGeographics works with a number of strategic partners to achieve our Vision and Mission including:
EULIS- European Land information Service.
EUREF - a sub-commission of the International Association of Geodesy.
EuroSDR - European Spatial Data Research.
WPLA - Working Party on Land Administration.
PCC - the Permanent Commission on Cadastre.
EUROGI - European organization for geographic information.
EuroGeoSurveys - the association of European National Geological Surveys.
AGILE - Association of Geographic Information Laboratories Europe.
CLGE - The Council of European Geodetic Surveyors.
By way of example, EuroGeographics is a member of, amongst other things:
FAIB (Federation of European and international associations established in Belgium)
Some staff have membership of SEAP (Society of European Affairs Professionals)
BCCB (British Chamber, of commerce, in Belgium)
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
12/2012
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01/2013
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Total budget:
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1,466,449
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€
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of which public financing:
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445,000
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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445,000
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€
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- Grants:
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0
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€
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- from national sources:
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0
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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0
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€
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from other sources: |
1,021,449
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€
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- donations:
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0
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€
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- contributions from members:
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771,449
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€
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- Licensing IPR :
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250,000
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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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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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EuroGeographics was formed as an association in France in 2001 following the amalgamation of two already existing organizations. In 2011 EuroGeographics received Royal Assent as an AISBL in Belgium and the process of winding up the French association and the transition to full operations of the AISBL began. From January 2012 EuroGeographics has operated as an AISBL in Belgium. Pending final accounts, the financial information given above is from the working budget and projected out turn figures from November 2012.
Traditionally the Association has had three main sources of income: member subscriptions; licensing revenue (including procurements); project funding (grants). The figures for 2012 do not include any grants or project funding and income is from member’s subscriptions and licensing (including procurements) as although the Association did bid for grant project funding none was forthcoming for 2012. It is expected that EuroGeographics will continue to bid for project funding and we would hope to be able to include it again as part of our funding streams in 2013 -2014 onwards.
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