Overview
Lobbying Costs
175,000€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Campaign for the Freedom of the Automotive Parts and Repair Market (ECAR)
EU Transparency Register
24503897827-04 First registered on 24 Jan 2012
Goals / Remit
Established in 1993, the European Campaign for the Freedom of the Automotive Parts and Repair Market (ECAR) is an alliance of 10 independent EU organisations representing vehicle parts producers, distributors, independent repairers, the European motor insurance industry, a large cross section of small and medium-sized enterprises as well as the 260 million motoring consumers in the European Union.
ECAR's main objective is to safeguard and promote free competition and to prevent that vehicle makers can monopolise the vehicle spare parts market by abuse of design protection.Main EU files targeted
ECAR's main objective is to safeguard and promote free competition and to prevent that vehicle makers can monopolise the vehicle spare parts market by abuse of design protection.
Address
Head Office
Blvd de la Woluwe, boite 5, 42
Brussels 1200
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 06 Apr 2016
Name Start date End Date Ms Laurence Eeckhout 22 Apr 2016 01 May 2017 Mr Gerrith Thomas Funke 17 May 2013 15 May 2014 Mr Thomas Gerrith FUNKE 24 Feb 2012 01 Mar 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Sylvia Gotzen (ECAR coordination secretariat)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Shakinovsky Louis (President)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
175,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
Initiatives at Council and EP level concerning the Proposal of the Commission of the European Communities to amend "Design" Directive 98/71/EC [COM (2004) 582 final]
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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.
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Date 09 Mar 2018 Location brussels Subject Connected Car Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
- Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - SMEunited aisbl
- European Council for Motor Trades and Repairs
- Leaseurope
- FIGIEFA - Fédération Internationale des Grossistes, Importateurs & Exportateurs en Fournitures Automobiles / International Federation of Automotive Distributors
- Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
- European Garage and test Equipment Association
- Meetings