Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Ulster Farmers' Union |
| Acronym: |
UFU
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| Legal status: |
Trade Association
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| Website address: |
http://www.ufuni.org
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Clarke Black
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| Position: |
Chief Executive |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Wesley Aston
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| Position: |
Policy Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
475 Antrim Road
Belfast BT15 3DA
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 2890370222 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
British Agriculture Bureau (Brussels Office)
61, rue de Treves
B-1040 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 285 0580
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
UFU champions Northern Irish agriculture and provides professional representation and services to its members. Its main aims and objectives are to:
1. Provide political representation to farmers and growers in Northern Ireland through effective lobbying at national, UK and European levels
2. Inform its members about important political, commercial or legislative changes that may impact on their businesses in order to allow them to make informed decisions
3. Provide special advisory services to its members on legal and technical matters affecting Northern Irish agriculture
4. Offer wider services to its members
5. To be a public voice for agriculture and horticulture ensuring that the Northern Irish and British public is informed about the importance and value of Northern Irish agriculture
UFU works very closely with sister organisations in England, Scotland and Wales (National Farmers Union), which have similar aims and objectives in their given regions.
The organisations jointly support a representative office in Brussels, the British Agriculture Bureau. This office provides the primary interface with the European Institutions and its job is to gather interlligence on EU affairs, engage in and support lobbying efforts with the European Institutions and build networks with other stakeholder organisations in Brussels
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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: |
17
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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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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Competition
- Environment
- Food Safety
- Regional Policy
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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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UFU belongs to COPA/COGECA, the umbrella organisation representing EU professional farming organisations and co-operatives. Through this organisation it has an extensive network with other professional farming organisations in the European Union
The British Agriculture Bureau is additionally a member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (BCCB). The BCCB organises events on behalf of its members of both a political and commerical nature.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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12/2011
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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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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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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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The estimate provided reflects the contribution UFU makes to the operation on the British Agriculture Bureau as its representative office in Brussels, together with its contribution to the subscriptions of COPA/COGECA and costs associated with UFU officers involved in direct meetings with the European Institutions
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