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)
4 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain
EU Transparency Register
003277719548-45 First registered on 16 Nov 2015
Goals / Remit
COMMUNIA advocates for policies that expand the public domain and increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge. We seek to limit the scope of exclusive copyright to sensible proportions that do not place unnecessary restrictions on access and use.
The COMMUNIA International Association on the public domain is a network of activists, researchers and practitioners from universities, NGOs and SME established in 10 Member States. The mission of COMMUNIA is to foster, strengthen and enrich the Public Domain. COMMUNIA is an international association incorporated under Belgian law. The COMMUNIA association is built on the eponymous Thematic Network, funded by the European Commission from 2007 to 2011, which issued the Public Domain Manifesto and gathered over 50 members from academia and civil society researching and promoting the digital public domain in Europe and worldwide.Main EU files targeted
All policy initiatives in the field of copyright and related rights, especially in relation to the digital environment.
Address
Head Office
Rue Belliard 12
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Belliard 12
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Leander NIELBOCK 27 Aug 2024 26 Aug 2025 Leander NIELBOCK 31 May 2023 31 May 2024 Paul KELLER 29 Feb 2020 27 Feb 2021 Ms Teresa Isabel RAPOSO NOBRE 25 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Paul KELLER 21 Mar 2019 01 Jan 2020 Anna MAZGAL 23 Nov 2016 22 Nov 2017 Complementary Information
COMMUNIA has three full-time staffers, a policy director, a legal director and a policy advisor (3x100% FTEs). In addition, there is a core team of members of the association who contribute to COMMUNIA's activities as volunteers on a regular basis, adding up to around four FTEs of around 25%.
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
We are a member of the Access to Knowledge Coalition (A2K Coalition, https://www.a2k-coalition.org/).
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
202,940€
Major funding types in closed year
Grants, Member's contributions
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Arcadia Fund 157,000€ Contribution OSF 45,140€ Other financial info
As of July 2022, COMMUNIA is receiving structural funding from the UK philanthropic organisation Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The funding is scheduled to run for eight years and amounts to 3.000.000€ in total (https://communia-association.org/2022/09/20/communia-receives-eight-year-grant-from-arcadia/). In 2022, the annual budget amounted to €202.940.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
We occasionally organize events and workshops and participate in events and workshops organized by other stakeholders. We regularly publish on our own website and on social media.
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 22 Oct 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Launch of the dialogue on availability and access to audio-visual content Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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