Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
International Wool Textile Organisation |
| Acronym: |
IWTO
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| Legal status: |
de facto assu.
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| Website address: |
http://www.iwto.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
Peter Ackroyd
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| Position: |
President |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Elisabeth van Delden
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| Position: |
Secretary General |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
4 Rue de l'industrie
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 25054010 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 25034785 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
IWTO is the international body representing the interests of the world's wool-textile trade and industry. As such, its membership covers the woolgrowers, traders, primary processors, spinners and weavers of wool and allied fibres in its member-countries, as well as all kind of organisations related to wool products and the wool business in general.
The International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) is the only international and genuinely independent organisation that is the custodian of world wool trade and industry regulations since 1927. Our mission is to confirm wool as the world’s sustainable and accessible premium fibre for use in applications from high end fashion through to healthy and safe interiors.
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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: |
4
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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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Definition of wool as waste/by-product
Textile labelling
Life Cycle Analysis
Standards
Energy saving
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Climate Action
- Communication
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Culture
- Customs
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Energy
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Home Affairs
- Internal Market
- Public Health
- Research and Technology
- Trade
- Transport
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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: |
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
€
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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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IWTO is purely financed by its members.
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