Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Icelandic Association of Local Authorities |
| Acronym: |
SAMBAND
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| Legal status: |
Association
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| Website address: |
http://www.samband.is
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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: |
Mr
Karl Björnsson
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| Position: |
CEO |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Anna Guðrún Björnsdottir
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| Position: |
Head of International Affairs |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
30 Borgartún
P.O. box: 8100
Reykjavik 128
ICELAND
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| Telephone number: |
(+354) 5154900 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
Icelandic Association of Local Authorities Brussels Office
1 sq de Meeus
1000 Brussels
TEl: 022138211
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The Association of Local Authorities in Iceland is the forum for co-operation between the local authorities. It was established in 1945 by 52 local authorities; since 1973, all local authorities in the country have been members of the association.
The Brussels Office safeguards the interests of Icelandic local authorities vis-á-vis the European Union and in the EEA co-operation and facilitates the participation of municipalities in European programmes.
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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
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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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
- Competition
- Culture
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Environment
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Regional Policy
- Transport
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
24 |
| 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): |
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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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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2010
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01/2011
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Total budget:
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2,205,118
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€
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of which public financing:
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2,151,810
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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140,484
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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1,575,484
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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435,842
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€
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from other sources: |
53,308
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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53,308
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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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