Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.05 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
-
Info
Shift Project Limited (Shift)
EU Transparency Register
017407241307-21 First registered on 26 Feb 2021
Goals / Remit
Shift is the leading center of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Shift’s global team of experts works across all continents and sectors to challenge assumptions, push boundaries, and redefine corporate practice, in order to build a world where business gets done with respect for people’s dignity. Shift is a non-profit, mission-driven organization, headquartered in New York City.
Main EU files targeted
-Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
-Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
-Forced Labour Regulation
-Sustainable Finance AgendaAddress
Head Office
462 Seventh AveFloor 6
New York 10018
UNITED STATESEU Office
462 Seventh AveFloor 6
New York 10018
UNITED STATESWebsite
-
People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 50% 1 25% 2 10% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.05
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 11 May 2024
Name Start date End Date Ruben Zandvliet 15 Apr 2024 15 Apr 2026 Rachel Davis 15 Apr 2024 15 Apr 2026 Rachel Davis 03 Feb 2023 03 Feb 2024 Ruben Zandvliet 02 Feb 2023 02 Feb 2024 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
-
Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
-
Networking
Affiliation
Shift is a member of the Alliance for Corporate Transparency: https://www.allianceforcorporatetransparency.org/
Member organisations
None declared
-
Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
2,418,259€
Major funding types in closed year
Grants, Other
Funding types "other" information
Advisory services
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Other financial info
None declared
-
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
On all legislative files: various written outputs available on https://shiftproject.org/what-we-do/standards/
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive:
-Meeting with Commissioner Reynders on 4 Feb 2021, together with Shift's former Chair John Ruggie, author of the UN Guiding Principles
-Submission to DG JUST consultation
-Meetings with European Commission staff members (DG JUST, GROW, TRADE, INTPA, NEAR, EEAS)
-Engagement with EU Member States on results of project with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on effective enforcement of mandatory due diligence measures
-Regular engagement with EU Member States including at Permanent Representations,
-Regular engagement with (offices of) MEPs Hautala, Wolters, Repassi, Aubry, Voss and others involved with the CS3D, various presentations to EU Parliament RBC Working Group on Shift's analysis and participation in Parliament public events.
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive:
-Submission to public consultation on non-financial reporting by large companies
-Participation in EFRAG Project Taskforce report
-Participation in EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board and the Financial Sector Advisory Panel
-Meetings with DG FISMA in support of Shift's role in EFRAG SRB
Forced Labour Regulation:
-Engagement with EU Member States
Sustainable Finance Agenda:
-Participation in SFDR Consultation 2023Other activities
David Vermijs, Senior Advisor with Shift, is a member of the European Lab Project Taskforce on preparatory work for the elaboration of possible EU non-financial reporting standards, mandated to EFRAG by the European Commission.
- Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
-
Date 06 Sep 2022 Location videoconference Subject Will follow Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - Accenture PLC
- Proximus
- OVH Groupe
- Microsoft Corporation
- Cisco Systems Inc.
- Telia Company AB
- SOPRA STERIA GROUP
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Zentralverband der deutschen Werbewirtschaft ZAW e.V.
- Telekom Austria AG
- Liberty Global Corporate B.V.
- Nokia
- TDC NET A/S
- Uber
- Atos SE (France)
- Capgemini Invent - the Netherlands
- Telefonica, S.A.
- IBM Corporation
- Schneider Electric
- Orange
- Meetings