Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
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
Elvira Sweet
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| Position: |
Chair of Regio Randstad EU organisation/provincial executive |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mrs
Astrid Weij
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| Position: |
EU Randstad coordinator |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
6 Archimedeslaan
Utrecht 3584 BA
NETHERLANDS
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| Telephone number: |
(+31) 0302589111 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
Contact details Brussels office:
Regio Randstad Brussel
Trierstraat/Rue de Treves 59/61
1040 Brussels
Belgium
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The Randstad Region is the fifth economical region in the EU. It embraces four provinces Flevoland, Noord-Holland, Utrecht and Zuid-Holland. The provinces joined its forces to collaborate on EU affairs. Our main objectives are to strengthen the international competitiveness of the region and to improve quality of life in the western part of the Netherlands – the Randstad. To achieve our main objectives we focus our European work on the following Policy Areas:
1. (Future of) Regional Policy
2. Sustainable Environment (resource efficiency)
3. Knowledge & Innovation
4. Rural areas under urban pressure
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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: |
8
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Complementary information:
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The names of the Brussels representatives are
Astrid Weij: EU Coördinator of the Randstadprovinces;
Joanne Swets: EU representative of the Randstadprovinces;
Bas van den Barg: EU representative of the province of Utrecht;
Wim Stooker: EU representative of the province of Noord-Holland;
Eva Gijbels: EU representative of the province of Noord-Holland
Alexander van den Bosch: EU representative of the province of Zuid-Holland
Sidony Venema: EU representative of the province of Flevoland
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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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EU policy, Regional Policy, Common Agriculural Policy, and many more
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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
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Energy
- Environment
- Public Health
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
7 |
| 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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Mainly ERRIN: European Regions Research and Innovation Network, PURPLE: Peri-Urban Regions Platform Europe, AIR: Air-quality Initiative of Regions, CEMR: Council of European Municipalities and Regions, CoR: Comite of the Regions
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
-
10/2012
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Total budget:
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619,540
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€
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of which public financing:
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619,540
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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0
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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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0
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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619,540
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€
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from other sources: |
0
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€
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- donations:
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0
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€
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- contributions from members:
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0
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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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Not applicable
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