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)
1.25 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Blueprint for Free Speech (B4FS)
EU Transparency Register
357351592008-46 First registered on 15 May 2024
Goals / Remit
As a civil society, not for profit organisation, B4FS works internationally to promote the right to freedom of expression with no undue interference or intrusion. Our research and advocacy strive to defend Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which asserts the right to freedom of opinion and expression for all people.
Our initiatives seek to:
Build a society free from barriers to free speech
Enrich public debate in the field of freedoms law through evidence and research
Support and provide research and tools to civil society, policy-makers, leaders and journalists
Expose and deter crime and corruption through public-interest whistleblowing
Enhance citizen participation and awareness of their rightsMain EU files targeted
*The passage and implementation of the EU Directive regarding SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation)
The purpose of this Directive is to protect journalists and human rights workers from abusive cross-border civil proceedings.
*The implementation and national transposition of the EU Directive protecting whistleblowers in the public interest ('the directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law into their legal framework (Directive (EU) 2019/1937)').Address
Head Office
BASE Workshop SpaceBlütenstraße 15
Munchen 80799
GERMANYEU Office
BASE Workshop SpaceBlütenstraße 15
Munchen 80799
GERMANYWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Contractors based on FTE 1.0 , because our NGO is small. We also have volunteers giving time in everything from graphic design to legal advice but this is difficult to calculate because it is on a 'as needed, case by case, basis'.
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
Members of the Coalition Against SLAPPs ('CASE Coalition') https://www.the-case.eu
Members of the NoSLAPP Coalition in Germany (https://arbeitsunrecht.de/no-slapp-anlaufstelle-zum-schutz-publizistischer-arbeit-in-deutschland-nimmt-arbeit-auf/)
Associate Membership in Whistleblowing International Network (https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/Home)Member organisations
https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/about-us/partners
Fundación Internacional Baltasar Garzon (FIBGAR) (SPAIN)
Media Development Center, Sofia (MDC) Bulgaria
Gong (Croatia)
The Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)
the Budapest Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ)
Aditus Foundation (Malta)
OKO.press, a non-profit, invesitgative journalism and fact-checking project (Poland)
The Center for Independent Journalism (Romania)
MEMO 98 (Slovakia)
Institute for Culture of Diversity (Slovenia)
And in Germany
https://arbeitsunrecht.de/no-slapp-anlaufstelle-zum-schutz-publizistischer-arbeit-in-deutschland-nimmt-arbeit-auf/
Die Aktion gegen Arbeitsunrecht, Reporter ohne Grenzen, Deutscher Journalisten-Verband, Deutsche Journalistinnen- und Journalisten-Union in ver.di (dju) und Frag den Staat bieten Information, Beratung und Training gegen Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation in Deutschland. -
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
79,366€
Major funding types in closed year
EU funding, Grants
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Justice Programme 2021 JTRA 28,234€ Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
B4FS has:
conducted surveys,
analysed laws and proposed laws (particularly national transpositions of EU Directives),
written reports based on these,
made short videos on these topics (e.g. interviews with whistleblowers across the EU to explain what they do and why they are important in reducing corruption),
presented our research and analysis in public and parliamentary forums,
co-organised events at EU parliament,
appeared at public conferences as speakers and panellists to bring accurate information to the citizenry,
supported the development and maintenance of online free tools for other civil society organisations (e.g. decision and assessment tools to determine compliance by states with the elements of an EU Directive),
built and maintained free, open source software that supported journalist and media,
provided free cybersecurity training to ensure that journalists, media, and civil society are not undermined by data breaches,
gathered data about abuses against freedom of expression particularly journalists, academics, researchers and human rights workers and sought to provide support to these victims.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 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 16 May 2024 Location videoconference call Subject anti-SLAPP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
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