Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
ARCO LATINO |
| Acronym: |
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| Legal status: |
NON PROFIT UNDER PRIVATE LAW
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| Website address: |
http://www.arcolatino.org
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Sections
| Section: |
VI - Organisations representing local, regional and municipal authorities, other public or mixed entities, etc. |
| and more precisely: |
Local, regional and municipal authorities (at sub-national level) |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mrs
ANDRÉ VIOLA
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| Position: |
PRESIDENT |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
ANA ALÓS
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| Position: |
HEAD OFFICER OF ARCO LATINO |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
131-159 Trav. de les Corts Pavelló de Mestral 4a planta
BARCELONA 08028
SPAIN
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| Telephone number: |
(+34) 934 022 677 |
| Fax number: |
(+34) 934 049 480 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The network Arco Latino was born based on the territorial cooperation experience gathered during the 90s, officially becoming an association in 2002. It is located in the north-western Euro-Meditearranean area, making up a macro-region that shares geographical, cultural, economic and social similarities
As a space for political and technical cooperation, Arco Latino is formed by intermediate Mediterranean local authorities. Their current members are Spanish Provincial Councils and Insular Councils, French Departments and Italian Provinces, thus representing 10% of the European Union population and territory.
Because of its potential, Arco Latino is able to be specially heard by European institutions so that Mediterranean and local perspective is embodied in the formulation of their policies and regulations, thus defending the interests and needs of both its territory and its citizens
Its objectives are as follows:
- to formulate an integrated development and planning strategy for the Arco Latino area, by mobilising socio-economic players, following a bottom-up approach;
- to establish regular, dynamic and flexible consultation, focusing on key regional development issues;
- to work on joint initiatives and projects;
- to defend the interests and needs of participating regions vis-à-vis national and European institutions;
- to open up an area of cooperation with the countries to the south of the Mediterranean
The 4 thematic Commissions of Arco Latino follow the strategic orientations:
- Social Cohesion
- Territorial cohesion
- Economic cohesion
- Cooperation in the Mediterranean
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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- sub-national
- national
- European
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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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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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In Arco Latino the main lobbying ACTIVTIES are:
+ Participation in Open consultation from the European commission (all issues under the social, economic and territorial cohesion and related to the cooperation in the Mediterranenan).
+ Participation in Task forces and contribution to opinion documents of the Committee of the Regions
+ Participation in the Structural Dialogue between the EC and the European Associations.
+ Organisation of seminars and conferences in Brussels in issues related to the Intermediate local governments from a Mediterranean perspective.
+ Participation in the Open Days in Brussels (speakers and attendance)
+ Invitation to European Institutions representatives to the Anual General Assembly of Arco Latino
+ Sending the political declaration that every Arco Latino Executive Board approves (3-4 per year)
The lobbying SUBJETS that matters ARCO LATINO are:
1. Regarding SOCIAL COHESION issues, the network is focused on fields like the promotion of equal opportunities; the impact of demographic changes and migrations; the promotion of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue; health and welfare for the population; actions in favour of active Citizenship and the rights of citizens; it also values the artistic and cultural, material and immaterial Mediterranean heritage as a vector for common values.
2. Searching ECONOMIC COHESION, Arco Latino promotes the development of Competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainable Economy in its territories; employment measures and policies; it favours promotion and internationalization of small and middle-sized business, and works to promote the territory.
3.Regarding TERRITORIAL COHESION, work is being carried out on issues such as multilevel governance, territorial planning, local development and infrastructures connecting the Arco Latino space. Also issues such as the fight against climate change and adaptation to its effects, research and the use of renewable energies, as well as protection of natural areas and biodiversity and agricultural policies.
4. COOPERATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
The network establishes institutional relations and decentralized public cooperation actions between its members and other local administrations from the whole Mediterranean basin having as main target the reinforcement of its capacities in the field of its competences.
Parallel to the work developed together with its members, Arco Latino takes part in Euro-Mediterranean forums (ARLEM) and maintains active collaboration with several networks of local Euro-Mediterranean governments and European institutions, standing out its participation in consultations, structured dialogues and platforms for information exchange and good practices.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Audiovisual and Media
- Budget
- Climate Action
- Communication
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Culture
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Food Safety
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Public Health
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Sport
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
- Youth
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
47 |
| 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): |
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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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- Member of CEPLI- Confederación Europea de Poderes Locales Intermedios
- Member of the Subsidiarity Monitoring Network (SMN) of the committe of the Regions
- Member of ARLEM- Assembly of Regional and Local Authtorities fo the Euro-Mediterranean
- Member of the Mediterranean committeee of CGLU- Confederación de Gobiernos Locales Unidos
- Member of the Spanish Platform of the Anna Lindh Foundation
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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12/2012
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Total budget:
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258,500
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€
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of which public financing:
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0
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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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0
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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: |
258,500
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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258,500
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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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