Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
22
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
EU Transparency Register
370649919011-72 First registered on 02 Oct 2015
Goals / Remit
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. CPJ ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever journalists are attacked, imprisoned, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored, or harassed.
Main EU files targeted
Safety of journalists, press freedom, freedom of expression and digital freedom
Address
Head Office
330 7th Ave 11th floor
New York 10001
UNITED STATESEU Office
Residence Palace
International Press Centre Room 3253, Block C
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Aug 2021
Name Start date End Date Thomas Gibson 02 Sep 2024 01 Sep 2025 Tom GIBSON 19 Aug 2023 17 Aug 2024 Mr Thomas Gibson 02 Aug 2019 01 Aug 2020 Mr Thomas Gibson 04 Jul 2018 01 Jul 2019 Mr Thomas Gibson 20 May 2017 19 May 2018 Complementary Information
The EU Representative and Advocacy Manager works full time on the EU while the Advocacy Director (Global) and Europe and Central Asia program coordinator work on EU advocacy as part of their broader portfolios.
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
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
CPJ accepts no governmental or intergovernmental funding.
Attached is a copy of CPJ's Annual Report 2020 which includes an overall view of the organisation's work and global budget:
https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CPJ.2020.Annual.Report.pdf
The figure specified for the total budget (13.b above) is EUR 8,435,489. This is a rough equivalent to USD 10,235,789 (which is the figure from CPJ's latest annual report and includes the total expenditure for the organization in 2018). This budget is administered to staff and offices around the world.
Please note however that the budget of the EU Representative in Brussels (and for those activities relating to the register) is between EUR 50,000 and EUR 99,999 (approximately EUR 85,000 a year). -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Balancing Act: Press freedom at risk as EU struggles to match action with values (Publication Sept 29, 2015)
Press freedom reporting and advocacy missions to EU and European countries
Regular alerts, statements and blogs about attacks on journalists and other press freedom issuesOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
22 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 26 Apr 2023 Location Brussels Subject Discuss findings of their latest report Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 30 Nov 2022 Location Brussels Subject European Media Freedom Act, Protection of journalists, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 12 Oct 2022 Location videoconference call Subject Protection of journalists, recent developments in Greece Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Sep 2022 Location videoconference call Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Jul 2022 Location Brussels Subject European Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jun 2022 Location Phone call Subject Safety of journalists Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Feb 2022 Location Phone call Subject Safety of journalists Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jan 2022 Location videoconference Subject Rule of Law Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
- Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Dec 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Safety of Journalists Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 09 Nov 2021 Location VC Subject Rule of Law Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 05 Oct 2021 Location Phone Subject Safety of journalists Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2021 Location videoconference Subject Rule of Law report/mechanism Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
- Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
- Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Rule of Law report/mechanism Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
- Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Dec 2020 Location videoconference Subject Media freedom, EDAP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 29 Oct 2020 Location Brussels Subject State Aid in Hungary Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 22 Jul 2020 Location Video-conference Subject Anti-SLAPPs measures Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member)
- Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
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Date 08 May 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Protecting journalists and freedom of expression Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
- Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Apr 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Freedom of press and rights of journalists Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
- Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 06 Jun 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Media freedom in the EU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Apr 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Media freedom, whistleblower protection Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Věra Jourová (Commissioner)
- Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Freedom of speech and protection of journalists Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
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Date 17 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject Ukraine Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Johannes Hahn Portfolio European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations Attending - Michael Doczy (Cabinet member)