Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
BirdLife Europe |
| Acronym: |
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| Legal status: |
Dutch Stichting BirdLife Europe
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| Website address: |
http://europe.birdlife.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: |
Mr
Angelo Caserta
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| Position: |
Regional Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Ariel Brunner
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| Position: |
Head of EU Policy |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
67 Avenue de la Toison D'Or
Brussels 1060
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 22800830 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 22303802 |
| Other contact information: |
BirdLife Europe is the European Division of BirdLife International.
Global Headquarters:
BirdLife International
Wellbrook Court
Girton Road
Cambridge
CB3 0NA
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 277318
Website: http://www.birdlife.org
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
BirdLife Europe is the European Division of BirdLife International, a worldwide Partnership of more than 100 bird and nature conservation organisations that works to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. The European Division coordinates the activities of 42 member organisations in Europe, including in all EU27 Member States.
BirdLife Europe contributes to and influences EU environmental policy making and implementation, and raises awareness about the importance of birds and biodiversity at EU, European and global levels.
BirdLife Europe is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. BirdLife Europe believes that this register does not meet 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 lobbying 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 BirdLife International, European Division 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: |
7
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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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Ariel
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BRUNNER
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29/01/13
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21/11/13
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Heidi Johanna
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Karhu
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01/09/12
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29/08/13
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Trees Martha
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ROBIJNS
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23/01/13
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21/11/13
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Bruna Diana
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De Almeida Campos
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11/01/13
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21/11/13
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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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Staff involved in influencing activities:
All BirdLife Europe interest representation activities are linked to biodiversity conservation and better protection.
Direction:
Mr Angelo Caserta, Regional Director, BirdLife Europe Director, Biodiversity Policy, EU Budget, Bird Trade
List of staff that regularly engage in interest representation
EU Policy Team
Mr Ariel Brunner, Head of EU Policy
EU Policy Coordination, Biodiversity policy, Climate Change, EU Budget, Agriculture, Bioenergy
Ms Johanna Karhu, EU Marine and Fisheries Policy Officer
Marine and Fisheries Policy, European Parliament contacts
Ms Sophie Herbert, EU Nature Policy Officer
Birds and Habitats Directives, EU Nature and Biodiversity Policy and implications with transport, energy and other sectoral policies, sustainable hunting
Ms Trees Robijns, EU Agriculture & Bioenergy Policy Officer
Agriculture Policy, Bioenergy
Ms Bruna Campos, EU Financial Perspectives Policy Officer
Multiannual financial perspective, EU funds, development policy
List of staff that occasionally engage in interest representation
Conservation Team
Mr Boris Barov, European Conservation Manager
Species Action Plans, species protection, conservation status and favourable reference values for species and sites, site and habitat conservation.
Dr Ian Burfield, European Science and Data Manager
Important Bird Areas; Special Protection Areas; monitoring, assessment, indicators and reporting; conservation status of species and sites; biodiversity research funding
Communication Team
Ms Caroline Jacobsson , Head of European Communication and Marketing
Media and Communications, events organisation, facilitating contacts with civil society, Marketing
Ms Elodie Cantaloube, Communication and Media Assistant Media and Communications, events organisation, facilitating contacts with civil society
Fundraising
Stefania Macchioni, Grant writing and Donor Management Officer
You can also find a complete list of all staff of the BirdLife International, European Division on: http://www.birdlife.org/eu/eco_staff.html
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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
- Competition
- Development
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Environment
- External Relations
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Food Safety
- Home Affairs
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
1,800,000 |
| Number of member organisations: |
39 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- ADN (420 members)
- ASPB (15 members)
- BirdLife Osterreich (2,200 members)
- AOS (600 members)
- APB (2,700 members)
- BirdLife Belgium (100,600 members)
- BSPB (800 members)
- BL Cyprus (480 members)
- CSO (2,100 members)
- DOF (14,800 members)
- EOU (500 members)
- BirdLife Suomi (10,000 members)
- LPO (45,700 members)
- NABU (420,000 members)
- HOS (2,600 members)
- MME (10,200 members)
- BirdLife Icland (1,100 members)
- Birdwatch ireland (14,000 members)
- SPNI (40,000 members)
- LIPU (30,000 members)
- LOB (700 members)
- BZG (200 members)
- LOD (500 members)
- LNVL (13,000 members)
- MES (110 members)
- BirdLife Malta (3,200 members)
- VBN (152,000 members)
- NOF (9,500 members)
- OTOP (3,500 members)
- SPEA (2,800 members)
- SOR (1,100 members)
- SOS (1,000 members)
- DOPPS (1,000 members)
- SEO (11,000 members)
- SOF (14,000 members)
- SVS (61,000 members)
- DD (1,000 members)
- USPB (450 members)
- RSPB (1,076,100 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- BULGARIA
- CYPRUS
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LATVIA
- LITUANIA
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALTA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- ROMANIA
- SLOVAKIA
- SLOVENIA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
- ANDORRA
- ARMENIA
- AZERBAIJAN
- BELARUS
- FAROE ISLANDS
- GEORGIA
- GIBRALTAR
- ISRAEL
- LIECHTENSTEIN
- NORWAY
- SWITZERLAND
- TURKEY
- 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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BirdLife International members are independent, democratic, grassroots organisations, called Partners. There is one Partner per country. BirdLife International has Partners in all EU27 countries. In Europe, there are 41, plus Israel, so in total 42 member organisations. Together they represent 1.8 million members (natural persons).
For a complete list of all conservation organisations in Europe see:
http://www.birdlife.org/regional/europe/partnership.html
The BirdLife International European Division belongs to:
Civil Society Contact Group http://www.act4europe.org
Green10, www.green10.org
ECOS, www.ecostandard.org
European Habitats Forum, http://www.iucn.org/where/europe/index.cfm?uNewsID=50
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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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942,016
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€
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of which public financing:
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332,163
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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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332,163
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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: |
609,853
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€
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- donations:
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149,316
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€
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- contributions from members:
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429,358
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€
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- Head Office :
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20,179
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€
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- Corporates :
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11,000
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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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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, BirdLife Europe has calculated that it spent an estimated 360.000 EUR [i.e. 25% of total expenditure] in 2007 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision making processes of the European Institutions.
In 2008, there were nine staff out of 14 that engaged in interest representation activities for 20% or more of their time. The average time spent in interest representation for the nine staff was 35% of their time [range 20% to 50%].
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