Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Vegetarian Union (EVU)
EU Transparency Register
109356110578-03 First registered on 05 Feb 2013
Goals / Remit
The European Vegetarian Union (EVU) is the umbrella organisation of 44 vegan and vegetarian associations and societies in 28 countries.
EVU advocates for a favourable food environment that makes it easier to choose healthy and sustainable foods by vegetarians, vegans and anyone interested in eating more plant-based diets.
Over the past decade, EVU has been advocating for a European food system that is more sustainable, fair, nutritious, and champions the benefits of a shift to producing and consuming plant-based foods.
EVU, founded in 1988, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organisation that engages in research dissemination to inform decision-makers, and supports evidence-based policies and practices to improve the European food system. EVU adheres to the values of respecting science, integrity, consumer choice, and planetary resource boundaries. It implements a multi-pronged solution approach to increasing the production and consumption of more plant-based foods.Main EU files targeted
- Food Information Regulation (e) No. 1169/2011 wihth specific focus on the Implementing Act on Labelling of Food Suitable for Vegans and Vegetarians according to Article 36(3)(b)
- Common Market Organisation 1308/2013
- Common Agriculture Policy
- Farm-to-Fork Strategy/Green Deal
- Promotion programe for agriculture and food products
- Sustainable Food Systems Framework initiative
- EU Fruit, Vegetables and School Milk Scheme
- EU Protein StrategyAddress
Head Office
Friedhofstr. 12
Fischbach 67693
GERMANYEU Office
Avenue des Arts ‑ Kunstlaan 44
Brüssel 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Rafael Pinto 05 Jun 2024 05 Jun 2026 Ms Caroline FORMONT 21 Apr 2023 19 Aug 2023 Rafael Pinto 21 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Mr Elias VAN MARCKE 21 Jun 2022 15 Apr 2023 Ms Ronja BERTHOLD 20 Nov 2019 20 Nov 2020 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
EVU is a member of the International Vegetarian Union (IVU) and the European Alliance for Plant-based Food (EAPF).
EVU partners with the PlantEurope Network: https://www.nahhaft.de/projekte/projektuebersicht/planteurope-enMember 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
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount spa 0€ - 10,000€ Intermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
https://www.euroveg.eu/school-milk/
https://www.euroveg.eu/vegan-and-vegetarian-definitions/
https://www.euroveg.eu/food-labelling/
https://www.euroveg.eu/the-plant-based-manifesto/
https://www.euroveg.eu/plant-based-politics-guide/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 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 27 Jun 2023 Location Brussels Subject Fit for 55 DG Climate Action Attending - Kurt Vandenberghe (Director-General)
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Date 21 Nov 2022 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Ongoing legislative initiatives on the plant-based food sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Joanna Stawowy (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Oct 2021 Location Online Subject Review of the EU agricultural promotion policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)
- Roberto Berutti (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject The Food Chain, Innovation and Challenges, Food Information to Consumers, Nutrition, and Food Waste, Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Plant Health Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
- Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
- Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
- Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists