ARTICLE 19

We are a member of the European Digital Rights Initiative: https://edri.org/
The European Partnership for Democracy: https://epd.eu/
The Global Network Initiative: https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/

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Does not represent commercial interests

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

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.

20,062,592€

The listed contribution from the European Commission represents the total received from the Commission directly where ARTICLE 19 was the core receiver of the grant.
Additional funding was provided to ARTICLE 19 as a partnership in projects of other organisations receiving the EU funding.

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ARTICLE 19 seeks to respond to consultations on the files that are relevant to our areas of interest. We have produced policy recommendations for the DSA that we have shared with relevant Commission officials and MEPs, and we have responded to several consultations on the DSA, on a competition tool and most recently as part of a joint submission with likeminded orgs to DG Comp on generative AI. We have also responded to a proposal for an initiative for greater transparency in political content (together with EPD). On media freedom, we have worked closely with other civil society organisations (CSOs) throughout the legislative process of the European Media Freedom Act. In September 2023 we co-hosted a breakfast session in the European Parliament for MEPs and relevant Commission officials and have co-authored an op-ed on the importance of the EMFA for media pluralism and media freedom on the Euractiv website.
We have also signed on to letters relative to the DSA/DMA that have been sent to Commissioners and other EU actors. As members of EDRi, we also contribute to their work on various digital rights files that are relevant to our own priorities.

In addition to digital rights, we also engage in advocacy activities around the EU Democracy Action Plan. As part of this work, we have been engaging with Commissioner Vera Jourová and her cabinet during the legislative process for the anti-SLAPPs Directive. We also engage with the EEAS and their work and receive project funding from the EU for the defence of freedom of expression in Turkey and the Western Balkans.

Moving forward and into the next Commission terms, we plan to continue to engage with the European Parliament, the European Council and the Commission on the implementation and enforcement of the DMA, DSA, EMFA, AI Act, anti-SLAPPs Directive as well as following actions of DG COMP given work we are doing as part of an anti-monopoly coalition with other organisations. Once the new Commission is in place, we will be following the commissioners and the cabinets of DG COMP, the Internal Market and Values and Transparency and others as appropriate. In 2024 we will also host for the second time a symposium on DMA enforcement and which will bring together academics (after a call for papers has been responded to and evaluated by an independent scientific committee), representatives from member state NCAs and Commission officials to discuss in a closed setting particular aspects of DMA enforcement and implementation.

We will also organise events with partners in Brussels on files of relevance to our work.

Our recommendations for the DSA can be found here: https://www.article19.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ARTICLE-19s-Recommendations-for-the-EU-Digital-Services-Act-FINAL.pdf

Sample of our work on the DMA: https://www.article19.org/resources/eu-dma-needs-to-shape-digital-markets-future/

The joint letter we signed onto about the DSA is available from here: https://www.article19.org/resources/joint-letter-to-eu-commissions-telecommunications-council-on-digital-services-act/

Our work with EPD on sponsored political content is available here: https://www.article19.org/resources/focus-on-political-ad-transparency-not-contents/

A summary of our EMFA breakfast session in the European Parliament: https://www.article19.org/resources/eu-media-pluralism-test-key-for-an-effective-european-media-freedom-act/

A summary of the result of advocacy with MEP to bring transparency to the ECJ: https://www.article19.org/resources/blog-eu-courts-reform-on-access-to-documents-is-not-enough/

Co-authored article on the EMFA’s ‘media pluralism test’: https://www.euractiv.com/section/media/opinion/media-pluralism-test-in-european-media-freedom-act-must-achieve-what-it-is-set-out-to-do/

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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.

• Date	23 Jan 2025	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Exchange of views on the Democracy Shield and media policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Michael McGrath
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Committee to Protect Journalists

• 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)
  Other Lobbyists	European Federation of Journalists The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation Committee to Protect Journalists Europäisches Zentrum für Presse- und Medienfreiheit CSE COE European University Institute

• 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)
  Other Lobbyists	Reporters sans frontières European Newspaper Publishers' Association European Publishers Council International Press Institute Committee to Protect Journalists Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe European Magazine Media Association News Media Europe Europäisches Zentrum für Presse- und Medienfreiheit

• Date	13 Jan 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	SLAPP
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Irina Stefuriuc (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Umweltinstitut München e.V. Civil Liberties Union for Europe

• 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	Committee to Protect Journalists

• Date	19 Jun 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Broad introduction to Media Freedom Rapid Response
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Europäisches Zentrum für Presse- und Medienfreiheit International Press Institute Stichting Free Press Unlimited