Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Sergi Corbalan
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Sergi Corbalan
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| Position: |
Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
15 Rue Fernance Bernierstraat Village Partenaire
Brussels 1060
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 25431923 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The Fair Trade Advocacy Office speaks out for Fair Trade and trade justice with the aim to improve trading conditions for the benefit of small and marginalised producers and poor workers in developing countries. Based in Brussels, the office coordinates the advocacy activities of three Fair Trade Networks: Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International FLO-I, World Fair Trade Organisation-Europe WFTO-Europe and European Fair Trade Association EFTA. These three networks bring together over one million Fair Trade producers from 60 countries, 20 labelling initiatives, hundreds of specialized Fair Trade importers, 3000 worldshops and more than 100,000 volunteers.
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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: |
3
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Complementary information:
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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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Sergi
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CORBALAN
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18/09/12
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11/09/13
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Hilary
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JEUNE
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10/10/12
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11/09/13
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Vittorio
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Mussetto
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12/01/13
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09/08/13
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Gabriela
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Filipovà
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12/01/13
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09/08/13
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Elba
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ESTRADA GUTIERREZ
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19/01/13
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14/01/14
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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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The Fair Trade Advocacy Office has four staff:
Sergi Corbalan, Executive Director
Hilary Jeune, Policy Officer
Elba Estrada, Project Coordinator
The FTAO follows mainly trade and development policies of the different institutions. Depending on the specific issue this also could be consumer and agricultural issues.
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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
- Consumer Affairs
- Development
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Food Safety
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- Internal Market
- Trade
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
3 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- o Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International FLO-I (24 members)
- o World Fair Trade Organisation- Europe (94 members)
- o European Fair Trade Association EFTA (11 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LATVIA
- LITUANIA
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALTA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
- AUSTRALIA
- CANADA
- INDIA
- JAPAN
- KENYA
- MEXICO
- NEW ZEALAND
- SOUTH AFRICA
- UNITED STATES
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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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FTAO is at present not a member of any formal association/ federation or confederation.
FTAO works closely with other NGOs and wider civil society loose networks related to the issue. This for example could be with Trade Unions, Consumer Cooperatives, ISEAL and NGOs working on trade and development issues.
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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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137,791
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€
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of which public financing:
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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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from other sources: |
137,791
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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133,975
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€
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- BTC :
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3,816
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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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150000
€ - 200000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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