Overview
Lobbying Costs
325,000€
Financial year: Feb 2012 - Feb 2013
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
FairSearch Europe
EU Transparency Register
329146212053-87 First registered on 09 Oct 2013
Goals / Remit
FairSearch Europe is an association that promotes innovation and choice across the Internet ecosystem by fostering and defending competition in online and mobile search within the European Union. It believes that existing laws should be enforced to prevent anticompetitive behaviour that harms consumers and to prevent new regulations from stifling innovation. It calls for two essential principles to be consistently applied:
1. Transparency
Consumers – not search engines – should choose winners in the marketplace. Competition in the search marketplace benefits consumers through increased choice, innovation to improve products, and the transparent display of search results. When search providers discriminate by manipulating results in order to promote a favoured product and demote competitors, consumers suffer.
2. Innovation
Consumers also benefit when a competitive market forces search providers to continue innovating and develop the best solutions for online search. No one company should be allowed to use its dominance to foreclose competitors from the search marketplace – particularly in high-traffic specialty segments such as travel, jobs, health, real estate, media and local search.
FairSearch Europe is allied with FairSearch.org, a US-based informal group of technology experts, innovative start-ups, online and mobile search businesses and organisations that have come together to advocate these positions in the US.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Avenue Louise
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Elizabeth de Bony (Executive Director)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade, business & professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Feb 2012 - Feb 2013
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
325,000€
Other financial info
The budget covers the activities of FairSearch Europe as set out above and the personnel costs needed to carry them out.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
3 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 17 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Platforms Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jun 2015 Location BERL Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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