Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,125,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
12.75 Fte (17)
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
- AEBR represents the interest of European border and cross-border regions towards EU institutions, national governments and other entities.
- Identifies their problems, opportunities, tasks and relevant projects.
- Initiates, supports and coordinates their cooperation in the whole continent.
- Promotes the exchange of experiences and information to identify and coordinate common interests on the basis of a diversity of problems and opportunities, proposes solutions and works to implement them.
- Promotes Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) structures, projects and programmes.
- Supports the preparation of CBC events and other activities.
- Advocates 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.
European Neighbourhood Policy
Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance
Employment
Transport
Health and social services
International Cooperation
YouthAddress
Head Office
Enscheder Str. 362
GRONAU 48599
GERMANYEU Office
Office of Extremadura in Brussels
Av. de Cortenbergh 87-89
Brussels B-1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
17
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 9 75% 1 50% 5 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
12.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
5 people working 100% are AEBR employees, 1 external expert and 3 stagiers
1 person working 75% is an external expert
3 people working 50% are AEBR employees, and 2 are external experts
1 person working 25% is a senior expert and 1 is an external expertPerson 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 the "Declaration of Marseille", Founding Document of FOGAR; AEBR President is member of the Bureau of ORU-FOGAR
Cohesion Alliance: https://cor.europa.eu/en/engage/Pages/cohesion-alliance.aspx
European Cross-Border Citizens' Alliance: https://www.aebr.eu/initiatives/european-cross-border-citizens-alliance/
Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM): https://cor.europa.eu/en/our-work/Pages/ARLEM.aspxMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,125,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
1,291,404 € (Source: FEDER)
Other financial info
This information corresponds to AEBR Annual Account 2019 approved at AEBR General Assembly 2020, organized online from Eupen on 5 November 2020. A specific e-mail voting was called prior to the meeting, but it did not reach enough quorum. Then, online voting through Polyas was organized during the General Assembly, with 160 votes in favour out of 178 eligible member votes present.
Most of our budget corresponds to the EU grants to implement Interreg Volunteer Youth and b-solutions, with 95% EU financing and 5% AEBR co-financing. -
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 RegionsCommunication activities
Last General Assemblies, Annual Conferences and CB School, with the participation of EU institutions and including workshops with usual AEBR partners (European Commission, Committee of the Regions, Parliament's REGI Committee, Interact, ESPON, etc.):
- Online from Eupen (German-speaking Community of Belgium, Euregio Meuse-Rhine), 4-6 November 2020
- Dresden (Euroregion Elbe/Labe, Germany-Czech Republic), 23-26 October 2019
- Oulu (Bothnian Arc, Finland-Sweden), 19-22 September 2018
- Badajoz (Euroregion EUROACE, Alentejo-Centro-Extremadura), 23-27 October 2017
Other events organized by AEBR:
- New Anholt Talks on the 50th Anniversary of AEBR on "50 Years of CBC" and "Communicating CBC", Anholt Castle, 18 June 2021
- Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY), online event to celebrate Europe's Day with the participation of young volunteers, host organizations, European Commission's DG Regio and AEBR, 10 May 2021
- "SMEs in Border Regions (their specific problems, possible solutions, opportunities offered by the new EU programmes and more)", online seminar organized in collaboration with EURADA (European Association of Development Agencies) with the participation of the European Commission's DG Grow, various CB structures and chambers, CBC projects and institutional players, 4 February 2021
- "Functional CB regions as engines of EU integration of the Western Balkans", online conference to commemorate the 5th anniversary of CESCI's and AEBR's Balkan Offices, 16 December 2021
- Online Forum "IPA countries CBC challenges in times of Covid-19 pandemic", 26 August 2020
- Online Forum to promote "7 June as the International Day of Integration across National Boundaries", 8 June 2020
- Online Forum "CBC in times of pandemic - New borders vs. new opportunities", 5 June 2020
- 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 2020 (12-15 October) on b-solutions, the Conference on the Future of Europe, citizens' engagement, Covid-19 and climate action; and EWRC 2019 (7-10 October) on IVY, b-solutions and external borders, Brussels
- Workshop with DG Regio for German Euroregions, EU Delegation in Berlin, 12 September 2019
- Workshop on the role of regional and local authorities in the external and internal dimensions of migration policies, ARLEM Annual Events, Seville, 26 February 2019
- Workshop on "the European Cross-Border Mechanism - Overcoming CB Obstacles - A new Landscape for CBC", a b-solutions activity organized with the Commission in Brussels, 31 January 2019
Main projects currently implemented:
- IVY (Interreg Volunteer Youth), deploying young volunteers in Interreg projects, including ENI-CBC and IPA-CBC; more than 600 volunteers deployed to date (August 2021), March 2017 - December 2021 (conversations to extend this project have started)
- b-solutions: identifying CB legal and administrative obstacles and proposing possible solutions, two calls for proposals in 2018 and 2019 have produced the study of 43 cases, published in a first Compendium available in: https://www.b-solutionsproject.com/; a 3rd and 4th calls followed in 2020 and 2021, with 47 new selected cases (they will be the basis of a 2nd Compendium at the end of 2021), and a call for expressions of interest to identify additional experts still open, December 2017 - December 2021 (conversations to extend this project have started)
- several in the Balkans with young people;
- various with sub-national authorities in Latin American CB areas, namely EC-CO, PE-EC, BO-PE, CO-PE-BR, and the borders of MX with GT and with the US; these are mainly implemented through direct contracts with the local authorities, but also in the framework of wider EU projects (EUROsociAL, INNOVACT, etc.);
- exploration activities in Jerusalem, West Africa, and North-West AsiaOther activities
We have taken part in the Commission's Cross-Border Review, and many related actions as a result of its 2017 Communication, including the implementation of the "b-solutions" project.
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)
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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)