European Cancer Organisation

• All.Can
• Biomedical Alliance in Europe
• European Chronic Disease Alliance
• EPHA – European Public Health Alliance
• FAIB - Federation of European and International Associations Established in Belgium
• UICC - Union for International Cancer Control
• FEAM - Federation of European Academies of Medicine

Each of our 42 Member Societies provide specific expertise in their discipline or profession in cancer.
The full list of members is available here: https://www.europeancancer.org/members.

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

The data on the financial year 2023 is included above in the section ("In the most recent closed financial year"), but is actually not yet closed. It will be officially closed following the Board approval of our audited accounts in June 2024.

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European Cancer Organisation has been pleased to establish in 2022 a new grouping, National and European Parliamentarian for Cancer Action.

Bringing together National and European parliamentarians who are committed to beating cancer and tackling inequalities in cancer on a national and European basis, this new Network for political action will:

- Heighten political understanding of the inequalities in cancer care requiring priority attention across Europe
- Identify key legislative and other opportunities for targeted action to reduce inequalities in cancer care, including at both national and European level
- Convey political consensus and recommendations from politicians across Europe united in shared resolve to improve the fight against cancer in all European countries

For more information, please see our website: https://www.europeancancer.org/national-and-european-parliamentarians-for-cancer-action

Principal policy activities of the European Cancer Organisation include:

As part of its 2024-27 Strategy, we convene 10 Focused Topic Networks on:

- Emergencies and Crises Network
- Research Policy Network
- Health Systems & Quality Cancer Care Network
- HPV and Hep B Action Network
- Prevention, Early Detection & Screening Network
- Survivorship and Quality of Life Network
- Digital Health Network
- Inequalities Network
- Workforce Network

The European Cancer Summit

The annual European Cancer Summit convenes over 500 leading representatives from across cancer policy communities (healthcare professions, patient organisations, governmental and regulatory audiences, commercial providers to the sectors) to debate and discuss pressing opportunities and threats for improving cancer care and outcomes. The meeting aims to signal consensus where possible via meeting resolutions, and elsewhere, allow controversies and difference of views to be aired and debated. Examples of passed resolutions at the European Cancer Summit include those relating to evaluation of quality cancer care, integration of primary and secondary care, tackling discrimination against cancer survivors and calling for policies to bring about the elimination of HPV caused cancers as a public health problem in Europe. More information here www.europeancancer.org.

Policy campaign activities

Throughout 2024, the European Cancer Organisation is leading series of pan-European cancer policy campaigns include:

- Time to Accelerate: Together Against Cancer https://www.europeancancer.org/timetoaccelerate
- Time to Accelerate: For Cancer Screening https://www.europeancancer.org/screening
- A Cancer Workforce in Crisis: https://www.europeancancer.org/workforce
- HPV Action

The Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care (ERQCCs)

From 2017, we have been publishing a series of consensus papers articulating healthcare professional and patient visions of what high quality care should be composed of. They include checklists and explanations of organisation and actions that are necessary to give high-quality care to cancer patients. They are written by European experts representing all disciplines involved in cancer care. Typically covering such issues as membership of the core and extended multidisciplinary teams, the agreed roles of each profession, patient information needs and much else, ERQCCs have been developed for: colorectal cancer, sarcoma, melanoma, oesophageal-gastric cancer, prostate cancer and primary care.

Patient Advisory Committee (PAC)

Our Patient Advisory Committee, comprised of representatives from 22 European and international level patient organisations, plays a central role in ensuring activities and policies of the organisation are strongly counselled from the patient perspective. With representation within our Board of Directors, many policy and activity proposals emanating from the PAC are taken forward with our 42 Member Societies. Examples in this respect have included the Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care: Primary Care, and the European Code of Cancer Practice.

We also conduct collaborative policy activities through alliance initiatives such as: the European Public Health Alliance, the Biomedical Alliance, the European Chronic Disease Alliance, the Union for International Cancer Control, and the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM).

Presently (March 2024) involved within EU funded collaborations:
4D PICTURE
ALTHEA - upcoming
CCI4EU
DESIPOC - upcoming
DigiCanTrain
ECHoS
EU NAVIGATE
EUonQOL
INTERACT100
MELODIC - upcoming
PRAISE-U
PROTECT-EUROPE
SANGUINE
smartCARE
SOLACE
STRONG-AYA
TOGAS
TRANSITION

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12 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.

• Date	22 Jul 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Right to be forgotten
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness
  Attending	Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 Jul 2024	Location	Strasbourg
  Subject	Longevity, health and support to E.C.O as well as future priorities of the EU.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Attending	Dubravka Šuica (Vice-President)

• Date	09 Apr 2024	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan; quality of life
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner) Tove Ernst (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Cancer Patients Europe EUROPA DONNA-The European Breast Cancer Coalition

• Date	29 Jun 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU beating cancer
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas
  Portfolio	Promoting the European Way of Life
  Attending	Maria Luisa Llano Cardenal (Cabinet member) Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President)

• Date	10 Oct 2022	Location	Bruxelles
  Subject	Working group on European Health Data Space
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data

• Date	21 Sep 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and EU Policy on cancer
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner) Tove Ernst (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Nov 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Sandra Gallina (Director-General)

• Date	07 Apr 2021	Location	Brussels - virtual meeting
  Subject	Exchange of views on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and its implementation with the European Cancer Organisation and its Member Societies and Patient Advisory Committee
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

• Date	23 Sep 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	The Commissioner delivers a speech at the launch of the European Code of Cancer Practice virtual event
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

• Date	27 May 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VC meeting with 28 ECCO member societies and 17 patient advocacy groups to discuss Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and the impact of COVID on cancer care and oncology patients
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

• Date	08 Jan 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Discussion on cancer
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Tove Ernst (Cabinet member) Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

• Date	23 Mar 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Next European Cancer Summit
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Annika Nowak (Cabinet member)