Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,624,500€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8.25 Fte (12)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Association of European Border Regions (AEBR-AGEG-ARFE)
EU Transparency Register
684213919233-18 First registered on 22 Oct 2015
Goals / Remit
- Represent the interest of European border and cross-border regions towards EU institutions, national governments and other entities.
- Identify their problems, opportunities, tasks and relevant projects.
- Initiate, support and coordinate their cooperation in the whole Europe.
- Exchange experiences and information to identify and coordinate common interests on the basis of various problems and opportunities, propose solutions and work to implement them.
- Promote Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) structures, projects and programmes.
- Support in the preparation of CBC events and other activities.
- Advocate for and disseminate information about CBC to general and targeted audiences.Main EU files targeted
Regional and Cohesion Policy
European Territorial Cooperation
Cross-Border Cooperation within the EU, at its external borders, in Accession and Neighbourhood states, and in third countries.Address
Head Office
Enscheder Str. 362
GRONAU 48599
GERMANYEU Office
Oficina de Extremadura en Bruselas
Av. de Cortenbergh 87-89
Bruselas B-1000
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People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 6 50% 3 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
1 person working 100% is an external expert
2 person working 50% are AEBR employees, 1 is an external contractor (expert)
1 person working 25% is a senior expert and 2 are external contractors (experts)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
VI - Organisations representing local, regional and municipal authorities, other public or mixed entities, etc.
Subcategory
Transnational associations and networks of public regional or other sub-national authorities
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Networking
Affiliation
FOGAR (Forum of Global Associations of Regions)
http://www.regionsunies-fogar.org/images/Documentos/46_declaration_marseille_en.pdf
AEBR Vicepresident François Maitia (Aquitaine) signed this Declaration of Marseille, Founding Document of FOGAR; AEBR President is member of the Bureau of ORU-FOGARMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,624,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
1,405,202 € (Source: FEDER, AMiD, AEXCID)
Other financial info
Information still corresponds to Annual Account 2016 (approved in Badajoz on 26 October 2017), and it shall be updated with data from 2019. Annual account 2017 was approved on 20 September 2018 in Oulu. Annual account 2018 was approved in Dresden on 24 October 2019, and Annual Account 2019 will be voted in Eupen in November 2020.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
Working Group on Cross-Border Cooperation a the EU Parliament
Interregional Group on CBC at the Committee of the Regions
Cohesion AllianceCommunication activities
Last General Assemblies, Annual Conferences and Cross-Border School, including workshops organized with partners such as the European Commission, Interact or ESPON
- Dresden (Euroregion Elbe/Labe, Germany) from 23 to 26 October 2019
- Oulu (Bothnian Arc, Finland), 19-22 September 2018
- Badajoz (Euroregion EUROACE, Alentejo-Centro-Extremadura), 23-27 October 2017
Main projects currently implemented: IVY (Interreg Volunteer Youth), March 2017 - December 2020; b-solutions (identifying CB legal and administrative obstacles and proposing posible solutions); several in the Balkans with young people; various with sub-national authorities in Latin American cross-border areas, namely Ecuador-Colombia, Perú-Ecuador, Bolivia-Perú, Colombia-Perú-Brazil and the borders of Mexico with Guatemala and with the US; exploration activities in Jerusalem.
Other events organized by AEBR:
- Workshop on CB Labour Markets, Flensburg (Regio Sonderjylland-Schlleswig, DE-DK), 27 February 2020
- Information Session on EU-Russia CBC, Committee of the Regions, Brussels, 27 January 2020
- Workshops at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2019 on IVY, b-solutions and external borders, Brussels, 7-10 October 2019
- Workshop for German Euroregions, EU Delegation in Berlin, 12 September 2019
- Workshop on the European Cross-Border Mechanism - Overcoming CB Obstacles - A new Landscape for CBC (b-solutions activity)
- Workshop on the role of regional and local authorities in the external and internal dimensions of migration policies, ARLEM annual events, Seville, 26 February 2019Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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.
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Date 25 Jan 2022 Location Brussels Subject Discussion on cross-border issues in Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira Portfolio Cohesion and Reforms Attending - Elisa Ferreira (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 10 Nov 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject 7th cohesion report, future of cohesion policy, Interreg programs, people to people projects, cross-border cooperation DG Regional and Urban Policy Attending - Marc Lemaître (Director-General)
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Date 04 Jul 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Mid-Term Review and Cohesion Report DG Regional and Urban Policy Attending - Walter Deffaa (Director-General)