Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
4
High-level Commission meetings
20
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN)
EU Transparency Register
3945154610-54 First registered on 04 Nov 2008
Goals / Remit
The goal of EAPN is to establish across Europe a democratic and effective network of voluntary groups or non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working against poverty, which shall primarily be an expression of the desire of people experiencing poverty to initiate and effect change in the structures that keep people in a marginalised position. The explicit and main purpose of groups that join the Network must be to empower people and groups experiencing poverty and social exclusion to fulfil their responsibilities, to exercise their rights, to break their isolation and counter their social exclusion.
The Network shall pursue three main objectives:
To promote and enhance the effectiveness of actions against poverty and social exclusion;
To help shape social policies and design action programmes
To lobby for and with people and groups experiencing poverty and social exclusion.
While EAPN is committed to the eradication of poverty globally the primary focus of our activities is on the eradication of poverty within the member states of the European Union.
EAPN is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. EAPN believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all the relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, ad have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. IN an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow the guidelines that result from consultation with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobbying transparency as well as experts on US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of EAPN, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. You can find the guidelines on “http://www.act4europe.org or http://www.alter-eu.org”
EAPN as an “interest representative” of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion and the organisations who defend their interests or in which they participate. In that respect in EAPN we try to engage citizens and civil society organisations in discussing European policies and strategies and to make proposals based on their experience and knowledge. This is part of a general effort to help to ensure a closer link between citizens and political decision making, to try to have the ‘voice’ of people experiencing poverty heard in this decision making and to try to build links between the local, regional, national and EU and international levels.Main EU files targeted
The goal of EAPN is to establish across Europe a democratic and effective network of voluntary groups or non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working against poverty, which shall primarily be an expression of the desire of people experiencing poverty to initiate and effect change in the structures that keep people in a marginalised position. The explicit and main purpose of groups that join the Network must be to empower people and groups experiencing poverty and social exclusion to fulfil their responsibilities, to exercise their rights, to break their isolation and counter their social exclusion.
The Network shall pursue three main objectives:
To promote and enhance the effectiveness of actions against poverty and social exclusion;
To help shape social policies and design action programmes
To lobby for and with people and groups experiencing poverty and social exclusion.
While EAPN is committed to the eradication of poverty globally the primary focus of our activities is on the eradication of poverty within the member states of the European Union.
EAPN is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. EAPN believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all the relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, ad have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. IN an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow the guidelines that result from consultation with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobbying transparency as well as experts on US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of EAPN, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. You can find the guidelines on “http://www.act4europe.org or http://www.alter-eu.org”
EAPN as an “interest representative” of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion and the organisations who defend their interests or in which they participate. In that respect in EAPN we try to engage citizens and civil society organisations in discussing European policies and strategies and to make proposals based on their experience and knowledge. This is part of a general effort to help to ensure a closer link between citizens and political decision making, to try to have the ‘voice’ of people experiencing poverty heard in this decision making and to try to build links between the local, regional, national and EU and international levels.Address
Head Office
Square de Meeus, 18
Bruxelles B-1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 07 Mar 2016
Name Start date End Date Fernando CHIRONDA 08 Jun 2023 07 Jun 2024 Lena NDOYE 04 Apr 2024 02 Oct 2024 Sheila GOIS HABIB 04 Apr 2024 02 Oct 2024 Kahina RABAHI 04 Apr 2024 02 Oct 2024 Ms Lynn SYMONS 20 Jul 2023 22 Mar 2024 Sheila GOIS HABIB 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Kahina RABAHI 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Ms Juliana WAHLGREN 13 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Kahina RABAHI 17 Nov 2021 17 Nov 2022 Ms Sabrina Iannazzone 12 Oct 2021 12 Oct 2022 Ms Maria Magdalena Tancau 14 Dec 2019 12 Dec 2020 Mr Leo Williams 12 Oct 2019 10 Oct 2020 Ms Sian Jones 12 Oct 2019 01 Nov 2020 Mathias MAUCHER 12 Oct 2019 01 Nov 2020 Ms Maria Magdalena Tancau 30 Nov 2018 01 Dec 2019 Amana DE SOUSA FERRO 13 Oct 2018 12 Oct 2019 Ms Sian Jones 11 Oct 2018 12 Oct 2019 Mr Fintan Farrell 13 Mar 2018 13 Mar 2019 Mr Leo Williams 10 Mar 2018 09 Mar 2019 Ms Maria Magdalena Tancau 30 Nov 2017 29 Nov 2018 Ms Sian Jones 30 Mar 2017 29 Mar 2018 Amana DE SOUSA FERRO 20 Mar 2017 10 Mar 2018 Mr Fintan Farrell 20 Mar 2017 01 Mar 2018 Mr Leo Williams 23 Jan 2017 12 Jan 2018 Ms Maria Magdalena Tancau 30 Sep 2016 17 Sep 2017 Ms Sian Jones 19 Feb 2016 18 Feb 2017 Mr Fintan Farrell 19 Feb 2016 18 Feb 2017 Amana DE SOUSA FERRO 18 Feb 2016 17 Feb 2017 Ms Magda Tancau 19 May 2015 12 May 2016 Ms Sian Jones 06 Mar 2015 19 Feb 2016 Ms Barbara Helfferich 06 Mar 2015 26 Feb 2016 Mr Fintan Farrell 28 Feb 2015 19 Feb 2016 Amana DE SOUSA FERRO 24 Feb 2015 18 Feb 2016 Amana DE SOUSA FERRO 11 Mar 2014 08 Mar 2015 Ms Barbara Helfferich 07 Mar 2014 06 Mar 2015 Mr Fintan Farrell 04 Mar 2014 03 Mar 2015 Ms Sian Jones 01 Mar 2014 03 Mar 2015 Amana DE SOUSA FERRO 21 Feb 2013 20 Feb 2014 Amana DE SOUSA FERRO 31 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013 Complementary Information
There were 6 full time equivalent staff in EAPN. 4 of which worked on he activities covered by the register 50% of their time.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Fintan Farrell (Acting Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Sergio Aires (President)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Please note that the information above about the number of members of each of our members is not correct. I just put the figure 1 to get past this page so that I don't loose the information I have already given. I hope that once I have registered that I will be able to get back to this registration and insert the correct information about the numbers of members of our members.
Social Platform (The Platform of European Social NGOs)Member organisations
EAPN Belgium - Réseau belge de lutte contre la pauvreté - Belgisch(1),
EAPN Bulgaria - Bulgarian Anti Poverty Network(1),
EAPN Czech Republic(1),
EAPN Cyprus - National Anti-Poverty Network Cyprus(1),
EAPN Denmark - DANEMU (Danish network against exclusion)(1),
EAPN Finland - EAPN-Fin(1),
EAPN France(1),
EAPN Germany - Nationale Armutskonfrenz Deutschland(1),
EAPN Greece - Ελληνικό Δίκτυο για την Καταπολέμηση της Φτώχειας(1),
EAPN Hungary - Hungarian Anti Poverty Network (HAPN)(1),
EAPN Ireland(1),
EAPN Italy – CILAP(1),
EAPN Lithunia – Lithunian National Anti Poverty Network(1),
EAPN Luxembourg - EAPN Lëtzebuerg(1),
EAPN Malta(1),
EAPN Netherlands – EAPN Nederland(1),
EAPN Norway – Velferdsalliansen(1),
EAPN Portugal Rede Europeia Anti Pobreza / Portugal – REAPN(1),
EAPN Romania - RENASIS(1),
EAPN Slovakia – Slovak Anti Poverty Netrwork(1),
EAPN Spain - EAPN-España(1),
EAPN Sweden - EAPN Sverige(1),
EAPN UK(1),
ATD Fourth World(1),
BABELEA(1),
Caritas Europa(1),
EMMAÜS Europe(1),
Eurochild(1),
EURODIACONIA(1),
EAPN Estonia(1),
European Federation of Food Banks(1),
European Foundation for Street Children Worldwide (EFSCW)(1),
European Network against Racism (ENAR)(1),
European Network of One Parent Families (ENOP)(1),
European Network of the Unemployed (ENU)(1),
European Older People's Platform (AGE)(1),
International Association of Charities (AIC)(1),
International Federation of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres(1),
International Network of Street Papers (INSP)(1),
International Voluntary Women’s Group for Education and Developmen(1),
Mental Health Social Exclusion Europa (SMES Europa)(1),
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM(1),
Red Cross / EU Office(1),
Salvation Army(1),
Save the Children(1),
EAPN Austria - Die Armutskonferenz(1),
EAPN Slovenia(1),
European Consumer Debt Netwrok(1),
EAPN Iceland(1),
EAPN Serbia(1)EAPN FYROM(1) -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
1,725,351 € (Source: EC)
Other financial info
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and Alter EU, EAPN has calculated that it has spent an estimated 189602 Euro in 2014 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision making processes of the European Union Institutions. This figure is arrived at by calculating 50% of the staff costs for staff who work on policy, plus 50% of meetings organised where an element of such meetings included trying to influence policy.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
On behalf of EAPN the people listed below have had during the reporting period four or more contacts with members of officials of the EU Institutions with the objective of influencing the policy making and decision making process of the European Union institutions, or they have spent 20% or more of their working time on behalf of EAPN carrying out such activities. The information gives also indicates the area of EU policies on which we tried to have influence:
Fintan Farrell
• Follow up of Europe 2020, Active Inclusion, Lisbon Treaty in particular the social mainstreaming clause
• The implementation of the Europe 2020 strtagey and the Platform against Popverty
• The EU Budget review
• The EU Inclusion Strategy (Social Open Method of Coordination)
• The use of EU Technical Assistance money under Structural Funds
• The proposal for an article 13 EU Anti Discrimination Directive
• The Active Inclusion Recommendations and in particular the adequacy of minimum income schemes
Sian Jones
• Follow up on EU Inclusion Strategy (Social Open Method of Coordination)
• Active Inclusion Consultations, Communication and Recommendation.
• Follow up on the EU 2020 Stratgey
• European Employment Strategy and Integrated Guidelines
• The Energy Package, particularly the Regulation of the Internal Market on Electricity/Gas
• The Energy Charter and Energy Declaration (Parliamentary)
• Services Directive and Communication on Services of General Interest
Vincent Caron
• Structural funds,
• Proposal for a new EU directive on anti-discrimination
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Amana Ferro
• The European Employment Strategy : Including debate on Flexicurity, Active Labour Market Policies, work of the Employment Committee, Mutual Leaning Programme, role of Social Economy.
• The Active inclusion strategy (OMC for Social Inclusion and Social Protection)
• Adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in Europe
Please note that EAPN relies heavily n its members to engage and support it’s lobbying activities. Therefore in addition to the above many of our members assist this work. Therefore we have asked our members to register separately to this register.
Meetings
Meetings
20 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.
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Date 04 Sep 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Conference on the Future of Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Ivo Belet (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject European Commissions’s actions against poverty, European Semester, integrating Sustainable Development Goals, European Pillar of Social Rights, European Commission’s initiative for fair minimum wage Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)
- Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Implementation of the action plan of the Social pilar, poverty Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Ana Carla Pereira (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Jan 2019 Location EP Subject The Reality Of Poverty And Social Exclusion In The EU Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Sep 2018 Location BERL Subject EAPN Assessment of 2018 CSRs and Country Annex: More audacity to fight poverty and promote social rights Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject EAPN assessment of Country-Specific Recommendations 2018 Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Maria Luisa Llano Cardenal (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject Situation et priorités sociales en Europe Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Luc Tholoniat (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Apr 2018 Location EP esplanade Subject Launch of the European Minimum Income Network (EMIN) awareness raising Bus Tour Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Marianne Thyssen (Commissioner)
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Date 20 Mar 2018 Location Brussels Subject Exchange of views on the involvement of civil society and EAPN in the European Semester at EU and national levels; and on implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Nov 2017 Location BERL Subject EAPN’s Assessment of the NRPs: Social Rights or Social Plight Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject Social policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet member)
- Inge Bernaerts (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jun 2017 Location EAPN, Boulevard Bischoffscheim 11, 1000 Brussels Subject Beyond 2020 - What EU strategy to fight poverty? Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject Exchange of views on EAPN assesment of EU Semester/CSRs, specifically on poverty and social inclusion Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jun 2016 Location Brussels, Berlaymont Subject European Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Mar 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Discussion with a view to the 1st Annual Convention on Inclusive Growth Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Stefaan Hermans (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject Energy Poverty Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Christian Linder (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2015 Location European Commission, Brussels Subject EU macroeconomic governance, streamlining of the European Semester, role of social indicators. Midterm review of Europe 2020 strategy, progress towards headline targets, including poverty reduction target. Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)
- Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to discuss EU policy responses in the field of poverty and social exclusion. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet member)
- Stefaan Hermans (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Priorités sociales Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Luc Tholoniat (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject To present the impact of the Alliances’ work and lessons learnt DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Attending - Michel Servoz (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists