Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Automattic
EU Transparency Register
513729920039-18 First registered on 21 Dec 2015
Goals / Remit
Our aim is to democratize publishing on the web. We seek to achieve this through the provision and operation of the WordPress.com online platform, and associated products and services.
Main EU files targeted
We have had little involvement in previous EU initiatives or consultations. So far we have contributed to the following: "Public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy;" and European Commission meetings on the Digital Services Act.
Address
Head Office
60 29th Street #343 California
San Francisco CA 94110
UNITED STATESEU Office
60 29th Street #343 California
San Francisco CA 94110
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
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
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Tech Against Terrorism:https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/2021/07/27/announcing-tech-against-terrorisms-newest-members-3/
Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: https://gifct.org/membership/Member 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
10,000€ - 24,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
10,000€ - 24,999€
Other financial info
The figure above represents the salary percentage for an FTE who works on representing our interests. We do not incur office costs as we are a distributed company. As detailed previously, our activities in the EU are minimal.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
In collaboration with the Open Internet Alliance, we have published two open letters regarding the Digital Services act:
https://transparency.automattic.com/2018/06/12/were-against-bots-filtering-and-the-eus-new-copyright-directive/
https://transparency.automattic.com/2021/06/23/the-digital-services-act-defending-the-digital-single-market-and-the-open-internet/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 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 29 Apr 2024 Location Online Subject Digital Services Act guidelines Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 09 Feb 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Regulation of digital services and fragmentation of the internal market Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 17 Sep 2021 Location Brussels (WEBEX) Subject Digital Services Act and the future of the Open Internet Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 12 Jul 2021 Location Virtual Subject DSA Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists