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Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Baltic Centre for Media Excellence (BCME)
EU Transparency Register
781735946786-11 First registered on 02 Jun 2022
Goals / Remit
Committed to creating resilient, inclusive and tech-savvy media, and knowledgeable and inquisitive audiences in the Baltics and beyond. The Baltic Centre for Media Excellence (BCME) is an independent non-profit organisation, founded in November 2015. From its birth as a grassroots initiative of the Baltic journalistic community, BCME has grown into a powerful hub for smart journalism in the Baltics and beyond. It promotes professional growth, media intelligence and critical thinking, and strives for positive change in journalism and the communities it serves. BCME focuses on the needs of independent media outlets in the region and provides them with tools essential for sustainable development: hands-on vocational training and mentorships in journalism and media management, narrowing digital gaps and introducing innovations, quality media market research and audience analysis, as well as meaningful coordination of the donor community involved in media support across the region.
Main EU files targeted
Media development, Disinformation Resilience, Media and Information literacy and Communication policies.
* EU Media Freedom Act
*Creative Europe Programme
*EDMO, European Digital Media ObservatoryAddress
Head Office
Palasta iela 5-1
Riga LV1050
LATVIAEU Office
Palasta iela 5-1
Riga LV1050
LATVIAWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6
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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
1,436,000€
Major funding types in closed year
Grants, Other
Funding types "other" information
BCME is an independent non profit NGO and it is mostly project based organisation. The projects implemented by BCME are financed by governments, international media organizations and other partners such as USA, UK, Norway governments as well as NATO, Nordic Council of Ministers and others.
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Deutsche Welle Akademie 90,000€ Contribution European Digital Media Observatory, European Commission 170,000€ Contribution Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office 150,000€ Contribution Google 200,000€ Other financial info
Not all the grants stated above are one year grants, so the total annual budget is smaller.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Unofficial groupings
Communication activities
We are not staging communication activities.
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 08 Apr 2024 Location Riga Subject Tech and Russian independent media Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 27 Feb 2024 Location Brussels Subject Free media hub EAST Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)