Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Check First oy (CF)
EU Transparency Register
016553096086-21 First registered on 05 Feb 2025
Goals / Remit
Check First (CF) is a leading Finnish software and methodologies company, specialising in adversarial research techniques. We believe in the importance of transparency and accountability in online content presentation, which is why we offer auditing services and advocate for online clarity. Our mission is to build solutions that promote a fairer and safer digital space. By partnering with leading institutions, platforms, regulators, NGOs, and educators, we aim to curb the spread of disinformation and foreign influence manipulations.
Check First provides advanced tools to monitor, analyse, and understand the presence and spread of problematic content online. We develop systems and protocols to detect, track, and signal illegal behaviour and content, making us a key partner for all stakeholders in the informational space. This expertise lead us to develop methodology and tools to acutely monitor the evolution of platforms.Main EU files targeted
Digital Services Act
Website
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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
Professional consultancies
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Networking
Affiliation
Check First is a member of OsSINT, an informal group of entities active in Open Source INTelligence, promoting guidelines for its practice https://obsint.eu
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€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
0€ - 10,000€
Other financial info
As a small entity, Check First's doesn't allocate a large budget to activities covered by the register, but is regularly invited to participate as an expert in events organised by the EC.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.
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.