Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.35 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Avast Software s.r.o. (Avast)
EU Transparency Register
379331539649-04 First registered on 18 Sep 2020
Goals / Remit
Avast provide products and services for security, data privacy, and device optimization. Avast believes in an open and connected world where people everywhere have the right to access the same information, ideas and experiences. Our role is to make the online world a safer place so that digital citizens are free to enjoy safe and private connected lives.
Main EU files targeted
· Communication from the Commission – COM(2020) 67– Shaping Europe’s Digital Future
· Communication from the Commission – COM(2020) 66 – A European strategy for data
· Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
· Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of 12 July 2016 pursuant to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (notified under document C(2016) 4176)
· Proposal for a Regulation concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC
· Directive (EU) 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016 concerning measures for a high common level of security of network and information systems across the Union
· White Paper from the Commission – COM(2020) 65 – On Artificial Intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust
· Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market
· Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) 2021/0106(COD)
· Proposal amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as regards establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity 2021/0136(COD)
· Council Resolution on Encryption - Security through encryption and security despite encryption 13084/1/20 REV 1
· Joint Communication from the Commission – JOIN(2020) 22 – A new EU-US agenda for global change
- REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and
amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020
- Data Act: Proposal for a Regulation on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of dataAddress
Head Office
Pikrtova 1737/1a
Prague
CZECH REPUBLICEU Office
Pikrtova 1737/1a
Prague
CZECH REPUBLICWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.35
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The two employees committed 10%-25% of their time to efforts in these areas.
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
Future of Privacy Forum https://fpf.org/about/supporters/
Cybersecurity Coalition https://www.cybersecuritycoalition.org/#member-companies
Cybersecurity Tech Accord https://cybertechaccord.org/signatories/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 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount apco worldwide 50,000€ - 99,999€ apco worldwide 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name apco worldwide Closed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
6 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 19 Jul 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills roundtable with the digital transition sector. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
- Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
- Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 19 Jul 2021 Location Videoconférence Subject Skills Roundtable on Digital Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 22 Apr 2021 Location video conference Subject Data protection, Artificial intelligence Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Apr 2021 Location VTC Subject Discussion on Artificial Intelligence Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson Portfolio Home Affairs Attending - Alexandra Cupsan-Catalin (Cabinet member)
- Monika Maglione (Cabinet member)
- Brian Synnott (Cabinet member)
- Asa Webber (Cabinet member)
- Gosia Pearson (Cabinet member)
- Raul Hernandez Sagrera (Cabinet member)
- Tom Snels (Cabinet member)
- Ylva Johansson (Commissioner)
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Date 04 Dec 2020 Location Brussels (virtual) Subject Artificial Intelligence, Data Strategy, Data Governance, European Democracy Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Nov 2020 Location video conference Subject data protection and transfer of personal data Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)