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Overview
Lobbying Costs
475,000€
Financial year: Nov 2010 - Jul 2011
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
National Farmers' Union (NFU)
EU Transparency Register
8332786306-05 First registered on 13 Aug 2008
Goals / Remit
The NFU of England and Wales champions British farming and growing and provides professional representation and services to its members. Its main aims and objectives are to:
1. Provide political representation to farmers and growers in England and Wales through effective lobbying at regional, national and European levels
2. Inform its members about important political, commercial or legislative changes that may impact on their businesses in order to allow them to make informed decisions
3. Provide special advisory services to its members on legal and technical matters affecting British agriculture
4. Offer wider services to its members for example, discounted rates of insurance, private medical care etc
5. To be a public voice for agriculture and horticulture ensuring that the British public is informed about the importance and value of British agriculture
The NFU works very closely with sister organisations in Scotland (NFU Scotland) and Northern Ireland (Ulster Farmers Union), which have similar aims and objectives in their given regions.
The organisations jointly support a representative office in Brussels, the British Agriculture Bureau. This office provides the primary interface with the European Institutions and its job is to gather interlligence on EU affairs, engage in and support lobbying efforts with the European Institutions and build networks with other stakeholder organisations in BrusselsMain EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Stoneleigh Park
Warwickshire CV8 2TZ
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Jane Maeve Whyte (Director, BAB)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade, business & professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Nov 2010 - Jul 2011
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
475,000€
Other financial info
The estimate of costs is based on the costs of operating the British Agriculture Bureau, the NFU's representative office in Brussels. It is therefore a very crude approximation of the costs of direct lobbying. To undertake a precise estimate would be impossible given the political nature of the organisations activities domestically. Attention should also be drawn to the contribution that the NFU also makes on behalf of the UK farming unions to COPA/COGECA which represents and additional aproximately 400,000 euro although only a fraction of this subscription could be allocated to direct lobbying.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared