Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Friends of the Earth Europe |
| Acronym: |
FoEE
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| Legal status: |
a.s.b.l.
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| Website address: |
http://www.foeeurope.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: |
Mrs
Magda Stoczkiewicz
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Natacha Cingotti
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| Position: |
Transparency campaigner |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
26 Rue d'Edimbourg
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 893 1000 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 8931035 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for sustainable and just societies and for the protection of the environment.
Friends of the Earth Europe:
- promotes environmentally sustainable societies on the local, national, regional and global levels
- protects the earth against further deterioration and repair damage inflicted upon the environment by human activities and negligence
- preserves the earth's ecological, cultural and ethnic diversity
- increases public participation and democratic decision making. Greater democracy is both an end in itself and is vital to the protection of the environment and the sound management of natural resources
- achieves environmental, social, economic and political justice and equal access to resources and opportunities for men and women on the local, national, regional and international levels
Friends of the Earth Europe is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. Friends of the Earth Europe 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 Friends of the Earth Europe, 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: |
23
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Complementary information:
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On behalf of Friends of the Earth Europe 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 institutions; or they have spent 20 percent or more of their working time on behalf of Friends of the Earth Europe carrying out such activities:
Adrian Bebb (Food, agriculture, biodiversity)
Stanka Becheva (Food and agriculture)
Robbie Blake (Food and agriculture)
Gustavo Castro (Corporate Accountability)
Natacha Cingotti (Transparency and ethics regulation)
Paul de Clerck (Corporate accountability, transparency, extractive industries)
Esther Bollendorff (Climate justice and energy)
Daniel Pentzlin (Accountable finance)
Brook Riley (Energy efficiency)
Ariadna Rodrigo (Resource use)
Susann Scherbarth (Climate justice and energy)
Mute Schimpf (Food, agriculture, GMOs)
Magda Stoczkiewicz (Director)
Joe Thwaites (Energy efficiency)
Darek Urbaniak (Extractive industries)
-Further employees and interns of Friends of the Earth Europe (2010) who spent less than 20% of their time on lobbying activities or their preparation:
Ruth Casals (Corporate accountability)
Jerome Chaplier (Corporate accountability)
Melinda Denes (Extrative industries)
Nishma Doshi (Economic justice)
Maeve McLynn (Corporate accountability)
Jennifer Rosenberg (Economic justice)
Nor Stadel (Climate justice)
Rachel Tansey (Accountable finance)
-Further lobbyists who were involved in lobbying activities or their preparation in the name of FoEE (2010) but were not paid by FoEE:
Michael Warhurst (Waste & Sustainable Consumption) – FoE England, Wales, Northern Ireland
Friedrich Wulf (Biodiversity) – ProNatura/Friends of the Earth Switzerland
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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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natacha
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CINGOTTI
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08/05/13
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06/05/14
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Antoine
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Simon
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30/11/12
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11/09/13
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Erdmute
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Schimpf
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08/05/13
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06/05/14
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Paul
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De Clerck
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09/05/13
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07/05/14
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Dariusz Marek
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Urbaniak
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08/05/13
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06/05/14
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Magdalena Jadwiga
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STOCZKIEWICZ
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21/05/13
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17/05/14
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Ariadna
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Janariz Rodrigo
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08/05/13
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06/05/14
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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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Subject of main interest representation activities since the last update:
- Agriculture: Agrofuels, Common agricultural policy (CAP), GMOs and biodiversity
- Climate justice and energy efficiency
- Resource use: resource consumption, resource efficiency
- Economic justice: corporate accountability, extractive industries, financial regulation, lobbying transparency and ethics regulation
Examples of legislative pieces we have been lobbying on in 2011 include:
Climate justice and energy efficiency
• Energy efficiency Directive (procedure 2011/0172(COD))
• Roadmap for moving to a competitive low carbon economy in 2050 (procedure 2011/2095(INI))
Food and agriculture
• Commission consultations for amending the directive RED 2009/28/EC (on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC)
• Planned directive amending Council Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC, 69/208/EEC, 70/458/EEC and Decision 95/232/EEC as regards additional conditions and requirements concerning the presence of genetically modified seed in seed lots of non-genetically modified varieties and the details of the information required for labelling in the case of seeds of genetically modified varieties
Resource use
• Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe (COM(2011) 571) / procedure 2011/2068(INI))
• Raw Materials initiative (procedure 2011/2056(INI))
Transparency
• Agreement between the European Parliament and the European Commission on the establishment of a transparency register for organisations and self-employed individuals engaged in EU policy-making and policy implementation (2010/2291(ACI))
• Code of Conduct for European Commissioners (C(2011) 2904)
• Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament with respect to financial interests and conflicts of interest (2011/2174(REG))
Corporate Accountability
• CSR Communication: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sustainable-business/corporate-social-responsibility/index_en.htm
• Brussels 1: Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgements in civil and commercial matters (OJ L 012, 16.01. 2001, p. 1 - 23).
• Rome 2: Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (OJ L 199/40, 31.7.2007, p.40-49)
• Safety standards for offshore oil and gas
Financial regulation
• Regulatory capital (Implementing the Basel Capital Accord, CRD IV), The Capital Requirements Directive IP/06/797, 14 June 2006.The Capital Requirements Directive, comprises Directive 2006/48/EC and Directive 2006/49/EC.
• Recast of the Directive (MIFID ) on markets in financial instruments repealing Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2011/0298(COD))
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Budget
- Climate Action
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Food Safety
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Research and Technology
- Trade
- Transport
- Youth
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| 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): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- CYPRUS
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LATVIA
- LITUANIA
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALTA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- SLOVAKIA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
- CROATIA
- GEORGIA
- MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF
- NORWAY
- SWITZERLAND
- 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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Friends of the Earth Europe unites 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International.
In Europe, two countries have more than one member group:
- Belgium: FoE in Wallonia and FoE Flanders and Brussels
- United Kingdom: FoE England Wales and Northern Ireland and FoE Scotland
Furthermore, Friends of the Earth Europe is a member of a large number of formal networks, alliances and coalitions, such as the Green 10, the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethic Regulation (ALTER-EU), Finance Watch, Coalition for Sustainable EU Funds, European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ), OECDWatch, European Environmental Citizens Organization for Standardisation (ECOS), Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B), Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS).
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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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2,575,339
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€
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of which public financing:
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1,240,390
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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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- EU DG Environment :
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777,917
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€
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- EU DG Development :
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284,035
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€
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- Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation :
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18,926
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€
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- EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency :
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106,781
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€
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- NETHERLANDS: Ministry of Foreign Affairs :
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45,131
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€
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- Youth Mobility Fund :
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7,600
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€
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from other sources: |
1,334,949
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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17,546
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€
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- European Climate Foundation :
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561,941
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€
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- Isvara Foundation :
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216,663
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€
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- James M. Goldsmith Foundation :
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71,876
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€
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- David and Lucille Packard Foundation :
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99,613
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€
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- Oxfam Novib :
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7,469
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€
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- Misereor :
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2,061
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€
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- Other private funding :
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46,475
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€
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- Membership fees :
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187,456
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€
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- Tides Foundation :
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50,634
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€
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- Rausing :
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55,929
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€
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- Other income :
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17,286
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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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600000
€ - 700000
€
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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, Friends of the Earth Europe has calculated that it spent an estimated € 681,259 (27% of our total budget) in 2011 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
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