Overview
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.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.55 Fte (9)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL)
EU Transparency Register
052513138393-62 First registered on 09 Jun 2020
Goals / Remit
The European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL) is an established leader on civil society law and policy. Our mission is to create legal and policy environments that enable individuals, movements and organisations to exercise and protect their civic freedoms, and to put into an action transformational ideas that address national and global challenges. We envision a space in which everyone can exercise their rights freely, work in solidarity and shape their societies. ECNL’s strategic goals are: (1) Defending civic freedoms through knowledge, strategies and tools, (2) Empowering activists and organisations to protect and expand civic freedoms through joint actions; (3) Strengthening global, regional and national policies, laws and standards to safeguard civic freedoms.
Main EU files targeted
Integrating civic freedoms’ protections in digital-related regulation: AI Act, DSA; Involvement on policy level to support the enabling environment of civil society and fundamental rights in EU and its external relations: Anti-money laundering; Data protection; Defence of Democracy; European Cross-Border Association Directive; anti-SLAPP Directive.
Address
Head Office
Riviervismarkt 5
The Hague 2513 AM
NETHERLANDSEU Office
Riviervismarkt 5
The Hague 2513 AM
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
9
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 3 25% 3 10% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.55
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
https://ecnl.org/our-networks
Member organisations
https://ecnl.org/our-networks
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
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.
Total organisational budget in closed year
2,882,054€
Major funding types in closed year
EU funding, Grants, Public funding
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Open Society Foundation 703,019€ Contribution FORD Foundation 643,685€ Contribution European Union 539,410€ Grant EUROPEAN EDUCATION AND CULTURE EXECUTIVE AGENCY(EACEA) Project 101140633 115,756€ Grant EUROPEAN EDUCATION AND CULTURE EXECUTIVE AGENCY (EACEA Project 101091722) 14,574€ Grant NETWORK OF EUROPEAN FOUNDATIONS, To increase EU protections for the enabling environment for CSOs 58,954€ Grant Grant contract ENI/2021/ 423-451 ‘Civil Society Organisations Meter (CSO Meter) 341,328€ Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Integrating civic freedoms’ protections in digital-related regulation, AI Act, DSA: As part of a broad CSO coalition, we have been calling for safeguards to protect against the misuse of AI systems, and the involvement of civil society in AI policy processes. (e.g.: https://ecnl.org/news/eu-governments-vote-final-text-eu-ai-act-whats-stake; https://ecnl.org/publications/human-rights-impact-assessments-are-key-effective-dsa-enforcement; https://ecnl.org/news/packed-loopholes-why-ai-act-fails-protect-civic-space-and-rule-law) We are members of the EU AI Alliance (http://ecnl.org/ecnl-joins-the-european-ai-alliance/). ECNL provided input in the development of the EU Ethics Guidelines.
Furthering EU policies to help shape an enabling environment for civil society in developing countries. ECNL engages with EU bodies in following up to the EP 2017 Resolution and the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024, to develop tools to detect early signs of closing civic space, including the use of digital technologies and counter-terrorism measures. ECNL also provided expertise to DG DEVCO to develop case studies on how EU delegations can address enabling environment issues.
Civic space within the EU. We supported the EP work on civic space: ECNL contributed to the EP report on shrinking civil society space in developing countries. ECNL also participated in EP hearings on this topic: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20160706IPR35887/committee-on-development-and-subcommittee-on-human-rights We also assisted the EP Greens’ draft of initial proposal for EU minimum standards for CSO’s internal market and their subsequent report on EU proposal for a European Cross-Border Association Directive. We advocate for
the importance of EU institutions investing in strengthening social and civil dialogue: https://ecnl.org/news/new-project-enhance-cso-and-citizen-participation-eu-decision-making We created a handbook on how EU law can be used to protect civic space: https://ecnl.org/publications/updated-handbook-how-use-eu-law-protect-civic-space
EU AML policies. ECNL with partners provided expertise to the EC and facilitated a wider exchange between nonprofits regarding the EU assessment of the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing affecting the internal market and cross-border activities. In addition, we contributed to the EU Supra National Risk Assessments in 2017 and 2019. Further, we raised awareness about challenges CSOs face as EU countries transpose the EU AML Directive. We collected evidence and analysed data, and presented the findings to the Commission.
Data protection: ECNL analysed how the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation affects the CSO sector: http://ecnl.org/data-protection-fundraising/
Joint submission on the Defence of Democracy package: https://ecnl.org/news/defending-democracy-clarity
Anti-SLAPP Directive: We are members of The CASE Coalition. https://www.the-case.eu/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
5 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.
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Date 20 Nov 2023 Location videoconference Subject AI Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Jul 2023 Location Brussels Subject Defence of Democracy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
- Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
- Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Jan 2023 Location Brussels Subject Scope of the EU AI Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Jan 2023 Location video conference Subject artificial intelligence Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Nov 2022 Location Brussels Subject Artificial Intelligence Act. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)