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Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats / Belgische Verbruikersunie Test-Aankoop (Test-Achats)
EU Transparency Register
694466214317-80 First registered on 09 Sep 2014
Goals / Remit
As a consumer organisation our goal is to inform, help and defend consumers in all their 'consumer activities'. We do this by providing them all information they need, by helping them in conflicts with businesses and service providers, by launching legal (class) actions, by representing them in advisory boards and commissions, and by lobbying decision makers at all levels (regional, national, European, …)
Main EU files targeted
Consumer rights, passenger rights, digital rights, privacy and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, product safety, sustainability, early obsolescence, green claims, food, health, energy, telecom, competition, financial services, enforcement, collective redress, consumer empowerment.
Address
Head Office
Rue de Hollande, 13
Brussels 1060
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue de Hollande, 13
Brussels 1060
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Mr Jean Francois BIERNAUX 18 Oct 2016 14 Oct 2017 Complementary Information
N/A
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
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Euroconsumers
BEUC
Consumers International (CI)
ICRT
ANECMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Cicle-X 100,000€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant Cicle-X 40,855€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Consumer Policy Advisory Group#E03750#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3750 #Member #C#Civil society
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Class action against programmed obsolescence of Apple products; petition for nutri-score to be mandatory on all food products in all EU-countries, action "My data is mine" against FaceBook practices related to personal data, class action related to the "Dieselgate" scandal against VW, action against HP following the excessive blocking of its printers, petition for affordable prices of drugs (medecines), energy platform accessible to consumers to help them to find the best energy prices and suppliers, etc.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 10 Sep 2020 Location Brussels - video conference Subject Consumer policies in support of the European Green Deal Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 22 Jul 2019 Location Brussels Subject Access to medicines Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Alina Timofte (Cabinet member)
- Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
- Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists