Overview
Lobbying Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.1 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Confédération Européenne de l’Industrie de la Chaussure (CEC)
EU Transparency Register
13497369622-37 First registered on 17 Sep 2012
Goals / Remit
To contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the footwear industry through different activities:
A) Lobbying
Maintain dialogue with EU institutions with a view to ensuring that the interest of EU footwear industry is taken into account at the appropriate level in the different EU policies and legislation.
B) Information and promotion of EU joint initiatives to prepare companies for green and digital transition between associations, trade unions, technology and education centers.
Coordinate Members’ activities in relation to the EU where appropriate.
C) Research and Innovation
Initiate research on relevant topics such as technical, safety, social, and environmental aspects, digitalisation, new business models, etc. Identify EU funding opportunities and participate in EU projects with relevant stakeholders.
D) Increase international collaboration with other worldwide footwear associations to promote free trade and a level playing field.Main EU files targeted
- EU Trade agreements negotiations.
- Foreign subsidies
- EU Industrial Strategy and EU Textile Strategy
- Late Payment Directive proposal
- Fight against counterfeiting and IPR
- Consumer product safety and market surveillance
- EU Green Deal, environmental initiatives towards a Circular Economy, Product Environmental Category Rules, Waste Framework Directive, Eco-design Directive proposal, Greenwashing, etc.
- CSR legislative proposals
- REACH and related chemical regulations
-- Footwear Social Dialogue
- EU Skills Agenda, VET modernisation, Centres of Vocational Excellence, Pact for Skills to reskill and upskill workers.
- Internationalisation of SMEsAddress
Head Office
Square de Meeûs nº37
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Square de Meeûs nº37
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Ms Carmen ARIAS CASTELLANO 16 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Ms Andreea Nicoleta STEFAN 16 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Mr Paul LASSERRE 16 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Ms Carmen ARIAS CASTELLANO 12 Oct 2018 12 Oct 2019 Ms Andreea Nicoleta STEFAN 04 Oct 2018 01 Nov 2019 Ms Michela Valentina Reino 22 Nov 2014 29 Sep 2015 Mrs CARMEN ARIAS CASTELLANO 25 Sep 2013 24 Sep 2014 Ms Michela Valentina Reino 19 Sep 2013 18 Sep 2014 Ms Michela Valentina Reino 27 Sep 2012 19 Sep 2013 Mrs CARMEN ARIAS CASTELLANO 27 Sep 2012 21 Sep 2013 Complementary Information
The CEC has 3 full time employees and 1 President (honorary position):
Ms Carmen Arias Castellano: Secretary General
Mr. Andrea Annunziata: Policy Officer
Ms Alice Widerberg: Communications and EU Project Officer
Mrs Rosa Ana Perán: President until 1st December 2025.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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
N/A
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
200,000€ - 299,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant EU Programmes (Social Dialogue; Erasmus+; Interreg Europe) 89,400€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant Erasmus+; SME 32,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
-See all completed and ongoing EU projects on our website www.cec-footwearinustry.eu for all details.
We also organise events with regional public authorities, education centres, and industry, and support the development of regional Textile, Clothing, Leather and Footwear (TCLF) Pact for Skills, and we lead the TCLF large-scale Skills partnership with Euratex (textile, clothing) and Cotance (leather).Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 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 Mar 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Pact for Skills roundtable with the textile, clothing, leather and footwear sectors. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
- Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
- Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 16 Mar 2021 Location Videconference Subject Skills roundtable on textile Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Eszter Batta (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists