Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Greenpeace European Unit |
| Acronym: |
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| Legal status: |
Association sans but lucratif
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| Website address: |
http://www.greenpeace.eu
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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
Jorgo Riss
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Riss Jorgo
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| Position: |
Director, Greenpeace European Unit |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
199 Rue Belliard
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 22741900 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Greenpeace is a global non-profit organisation that uses non-violent direct action to tackle the biggest threats to our environment. Greenpeace aims to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse, challenging the political and economic powers that can effect change, driving economically responsible and socially just solutions that offer hope for current and future generations, and inspire people to take responsibility for the planet. Greenpeace speaks for 2.8 million supporters worldwide [2010 figure - 2011 data to become available in the second part of 2012], and inspires many millions more to take action every day.
Greenpeace European Unit is based in Brussels, where we monitor the work of the EU institutions, expose deficient EU laws, challenge EU decision-makers to act responsibly in the public interest, and confront industry lobbies that undermine environmental protection in their pursuit of private interests.
Greenpeace is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. Greenpeace believes that this register fails 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 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 Greenpeace, 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.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/2012_ALTER-EU_CSCG_guidelines_Transparency_Register.pdf or at 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: |
13
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Complementary information:
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Currently (i.e. in April 2013) 13 members from Greenpeace European Unit staff are access to the European Parliament premises.
We will upload our 2012 data once the auditor has published his report.
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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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Andromahi
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SIDERIDOU
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09/11/12
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09/10/13
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Sébastien
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RISSO
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10/11/12
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09/10/13
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Justine
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Maillot
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22/09/12
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28/06/13
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Franziska
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Achterberg
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08/09/12
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28/06/13
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Saskia
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Richartz
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22/09/12
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28/06/13
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Edward
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Davitt
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23/01/13
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09/10/13
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Tara
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Connolly
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06/10/12
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28/06/13
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Marco
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Contiero
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06/10/12
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28/06/13
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Frederic
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Thoma
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04/10/12
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28/06/13
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Joris
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DEN BLANKEN
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10/11/12
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09/10/13
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Tugce
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Tugran
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24/04/13
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18/07/13
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Mark
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Breddy
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09/11/12
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09/10/13
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Kevin
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Stairs
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06/10/12
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28/06/13
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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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On behalf of Greenpeace, the persons listed below have had, during 2011, 4 or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 20% or more of their working time on behalf of Greenpeace carrying out such activities.
From Greenpeace European Unit:
F Achterberg (transport) F Thies (energy) J den Blanken (climate) K Stairs (chemicals) M Contiero (genetically modified organisms and agriculture) S Hundsdorfer (genetically modified organisms) S Richartz (oceans) G Quirk (oceans) S Risso (forests)
We have included people who worked directly for Greenpeace European Unit (GPEU) in 2011 as well as people from other national and regional offices of Greenpeace, some of whom spent less than 20% of their time on lobbying activities or their preparation. (Due to the limited amount of characters allowed, we could not list full names.)
From other Greenpeace offices:
J Frignet (FR) F Amiel (FR) K Kodde (NL) G Juergens (GE) D Belusa (DE) A Lambrechts (BE), Joeri Thijs (BE) M Suomela (FI) M Hollbach (LU) M Krueger (SE) C Campione (IT) K Kodde (NL) A Collignon (BE) M Suomela (FI) D Parr (UK) D Van Oijen (NL) J Soendergaard (DL) C Thies (DE) S Bock, Sarah Shoraka, David Ritter (UK) L Hutchins (UK) Jan Vande Putte (International) S del Rio (ES) V Polidori (IT) R Davis Greenpeace (UK) Stefan Krug Greenpeace (DE) A Villa Greenpeace (ES) J Jerabek Greenpeace (CEE) S Tsenikli (International)
All or some of the issues below: J Riss GPEU, M Sideridou GPEU and the Executive Directors of European National and Regional Greenpeace offices (Not listed here due to word limit).
Activities on:
Report on Indirect land use changes and biofuels
Report on additional sustainability measures at EU level for solid and gaseous biomass used in electricity, heating and cooling
Regulation laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market
Study about the impacts of EU consumption of food and non-food imports on deforestation.
REDD+ discussions in the UNFCCC negotiations
Energy Roadmap 2050 COM(2011)0885
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Energy Roadmap 2050
Trans-European energy infrastructure: guidelines COM(2011)0658
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure and repealing Decision No 1364/2006/EC/* COM/2011/0658 final - 2011/0300 (COD) */
EC No 1013/2006 (shipment of waste – complaint)
EC No 1907/2006 Chemicals legislation - REACh
EC No. 2000/60/EC Water legislation / EC No 2008/105/EC Water legislation
Analysis options beyond 20% (2011/2012(INI)) / 2050 Low Carbon Roadmap (2011/2095(INI)) / COP17 Durban (2011/2646(RSP)) / Energy Efficiency Directive (2011/0172(COD)) / Implementation EU ETS Directive Article 10c (2008/0013(COD))
Analysis options beyond 20% (2011/2012(INI))
2050 Low Carbon Roadmap (2011/2095(INI))
EU negotiating position for COP17 Durban (2011/2646(RSP))
Energy Efficiency Directive (2011/0172(COD)) - advocating to withhold emission allowances in the EU ETS
Implementation EU ETS Directive (2008/0013(COD)) / Article 10c EU ETS Directive
Review of Regulations 443/2009 and Regulation 510/2011 on CO2 emissions from cars and vans
Implementation of Article 7a of Directive 2009/30/EC (Fuel Quality Directive)
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Common Fisheries Policy.
Deep-sea fisheries (in advance of expected Commission proposal)
International oceans governance (United Nations General Assembly and Rio+20)
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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
- Consumer Affairs
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Energy
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Food Safety
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Public Health
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
2,800,000 |
| 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): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- BULGARIA
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- ITALY
- LUXEMBOURG
- MALTA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- ROMANIA
- SLOVAKIA
- SLOVENIA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
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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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Green10, Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU), Climate Action Network Europe (CAN Europe).
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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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1,639,078
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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: |
1,639,078
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€
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- donations:
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1,639,078
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€
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- contributions from members:
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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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800000
€ - 900000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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In 2011 Greenpeace European Unit was funded by Greenpeace International. Currently, ie in 2012, the European Unit of Greenpeace is funded by national and regional offices of Greenpeace in the EU. Globally, Greenpeace has 2.8 million individual financial donors [2010 figure]. It does not seek nor accept donations from governments (including the EU institutions), corporations or political parties.
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, Greenpeace has calculated that it spent an estimated 815,000 Euro in 2011 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
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