Forum Civique Européen

The ECF is a founding and active member of Civil Society Europe - the European Coordination of Organised Civil Society (https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/membership/)

We are also part of CIVICUS Global Alliance (https://www.civicus.org/index.php/get-involved/members-in-action)

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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.

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The European Civic Forum has signed a Framework Partnership Agreement with the European Commission, for the period 2022-2025. This enables ECF to receive an annual Operating Grant from the CERV programme, on Citizens' engagement and participation.

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Unofficial groupings,Social economy

In order to fully achieve its missions, the European Civic Forum is taking action through different forms:

- Connecting civil society actors transnationally and cross-sectorally through conferences, forums, alliances, working groups
- Participating in civil dialogue struc­tures at European level
- Running campaigns for the recognition of civil society organisations in the policy making process at European, national or local level.

Among its major events, the ECF is organising its European Civic Academy and the #CivicPride Campaign. These two activities aim at illustrating a positive narrative about the role of civil society, either coming from NGOs or from locally organised individuals. These are also moments where actors from different backgrounds can meet and learn from each other's experiences.


Advocacy:
We advocate at the EU level by engaging directly with policymakers, participating in consultations, and working with our partners, particularly through alliances and networks like Civil Society Europe.
Our advocacy takes two forms:
Ensuring EU policies respect and promote fundamental rights for all
Calling on the EU to introduce structures and policies that create an enabling environment for civil society organisations and genuine civil dialogue – as envisioned in Article 11 of the Treaty on European Union.


Monitoring and reporting on civic space:
Through our Civic Space Watch platform, we monitor and report on developments in civic space across Europe, as well as providing information and resources. Every year, we publish our Civic Space Report, which collects findings from a select group of countries in addittion to a horizontal analysis of civic space in Europe.
European Civic Forum is also a partner organisation of CIVICUS Monitor. We provide regular updates on civic space for the Monitor.


Network and capacity building:
Since our founding, we have been committed to fostering ever-greater links within European civil society and to helping build structures that recognise the importance of the sector.
From the founding of the European Civic Forum in 2005, to the European Year of Citizens Alliance, and in turn the creation of Civil Society Europe and most recently to our European Convening in 2022, we work to connect civil society actors transnationally and cross-sectorally through conferences, forums and alliances.


Campaigns and alliances:
At ECF our campaigns take many forms – from ongoing campaigns like #CivicPride – which aims to showcase people power – to specific campaigns, like the Civil Society for EU campaign ahead the EU elections.

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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	15 May 2024	Location	videoconference call
  Subject	Handovers for new commission on civil dialogue and civic space
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Attending	Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)

• Date	22 Nov 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Civil Society Europe

• Date	20 Nov 2023	Location	videoconference
  Subject	AI Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting

• Date	28 Jul 2023	Location	videoconference call
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Partnership for Democracy

• Date	06 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Vice-President) Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Foundation on European Citizens’ Rights, Involvement and Trust European Partnership for Democracy European Youth Forum

• Date	24 Apr 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
  Portfolio	Justice
  Attending	Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member) Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Amnesty International Limited Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union

• Date	17 Mar 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of democracy package
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Europe's People's Forum

• Date	07 Dec 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting on Defence of democracy package
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Portfolio	Democracy and Demography
  Attending	Ingrid Godkin (Cabinet member) Toma Sutic (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Civil Society Europe

• Date	28 Sep 2022	Location	Online
  Subject	Civic Forum presented the agenda of the platform with particular focus on the upcoming Commission Work programme and in relation with the Conference on the Future of Europe final report.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Portfolio	Democracy and Demography
  Attending	Ivo Belet (Cabinet member) Mattia De Grassi (Cabinet member)

• Date	27 Apr 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Civic Pride Event
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)

• Date	08 Dec 2020	Location	videoconference
  Subject	CCIF and the situation for civil society organisations in France.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli
  Portfolio	Equality
  Attending	Helena Dalli (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Human Rights Watch