Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
None declared
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (22)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN)
EU Transparency Register
847550548807-30 First registered on 27 Jan 2023
Goals / Remit
The purpose of this Association is to uphold and promote the highest standards of fact-checking and promote media literacy for the public benefit. The Association and its members are committed to upholding the principles of freedom of expression. They will work to promote the public’s access to fact-checked trustworthy data and information and to educate the public in how to assess the veracity of information in the public sphere.
Main EU files targeted
EFCSN is interested in any policies or regulations "relevant to the mission of fact-checking and are compatible with a reputation for independence and impartiality". As of 2024, the organization has an interest in the implementation of the Digital Services Act and related codes of conduct, the proposal for a European Media Freedom Act, the Artificial Intelligence Act, or the European Action Plan for Democracy.
Address
Head Office
4 rue Belgrand
Paris 75020
FRANCEEU Office
4 rue Belgrand
Paris 75020
FRANCEWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
22
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 10% 20 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The EFCSN is an association of European organizations of fact-checking. As such, it has an elected 11-member governance body, plus a dedicated Policy Task Force of policy issues that includes other 11 members. All of them do this unpaid and only 2 people (the governance body member responsible for policy and the coordinator of the policy task force) dedicate 25% of their time to target European Union policies and legislation, while the other 20 dedicate around 20% to be informed, participate in meetings with stakeholders, and other EU-policy related issues.
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
N/A
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
None declared
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
None declared
Other financial info
While the association itself has not received funding from the European Union, the consultation process to develop the association and facilitate its creation was the responsibility of a consortium of fact-checking organizations that was partly funded through the CALL FOR PROPOSALS-CNECT/2020/3029907 -Pilot Project: Integrity of social media
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
The association has published two assessments of some very large online platforms and search engines implementation of the Code of Practice on Disinformation in the context of DSA, available in the EFCSN.com/news website. Along with EDMO and The European Parliament, it co-hosted the seminar “Fact-checking and beyond: Building
resilience for the 2024 European Elections” in the Parliament premises in November 2023.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 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 17 May 2024 Location Brussels Subject elections Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
- Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 May 2023 Location Berlin Subject Disinformation and foreign interference; Digital services act and the Code of practice Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists