Overview
Lobbying Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
11
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Finnish trade union representation to the EU (FinUnions)
EU Transparency Register
774047715805-95 First registered on 28 Jan 2015
Goals / Remit
FinUnions represents Finnish trade union confederations (SAK and STTK) in Brussels. FinUnions is representing two Finnish trade union confederations from Finland in Brussels. Our mission is to represent the views and interests of our affiliates in Finland.
Our main tasks are to contact EU decisionmakers and other key groups by representing our main focus areas.
In our activities, we are also focusing on EU communication through different channels and by newsletters to our Finnish trade unions and their members.
For further information on the confederations and their objectives:
FinUnions: www.finunions.org
SAK: www.sak.fi
STTK: www.sttk.fiMain EU files targeted
FinUnions follows all EU policies that are relevant to the interests of the members of our affiliated trade unions, and of employees more generally. Our particular focus is on social, labour and economic policies. FinUnions works on behalf of its member federations to ensure that the voice of workers in Finland is heard in European policy-making.
Address
Head Office
FinUnionsBoulevard du Jardin Botanique 20
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
FinUnionsBoulevard du Jardin Botanique 20
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
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 Marie SANDBERG-CHIBANI 08 Oct 2024 08 Oct 2025 Marie SANDBERG-CHIBANI 23 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Marie SANDBERG-CHIBANI 05 Jan 2023 23 Nov 2023 Marie SANDBERG-CHIBANI 13 Jan 2022 05 Jan 2023 Ms Tiina Huotari 05 Feb 2021 05 Jan 2022 Ms Hanna Kaisa SIIMES 18 Jan 2020 04 Apr 2020 Ms Tiina Huotari 17 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Katja LEHTO-KOMULAINEN 10 Aug 2019 08 Aug 2020 Mr Teemu TOIVOLA 23 Jan 2019 01 Dec 2019 Ms Tiina Huotari 10 Jan 2019 10 Jan 2020 Ronja VÄÄNÄNEN 13 Apr 2018 09 Jun 2018 Ms Tiina Huotari 09 Feb 2018 10 Jan 2019 Ms Tiina Huotari 21 Feb 2017 09 Feb 2018 Complementary Information
In addition to the FinUnions staff, trade union specialists from Finland occasionally participate in our activities in Brussels.
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
Trade unions and professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
European Trade Union Confederation ETUC
https://etuc.org/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
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
300,000€ - 399,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Advisory Committee on free movement of workers#X01784#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=1784 #MEMBER #C#Employees/workers
Groups (European Parliament)
Unofficial groupings,Trade unions
Communication activities
FinUnions publishes information on working life related EU policies and decision making. We also cooperate with various partners in order to raise issues that are important to our members.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
11 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 24 Sep 2024 Location Brussels Subject Current affairs; proposals aiming to improve health and safety at work. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Attending - Matti Niemi (Cabinet member)
- Tuure Taneli Lahti (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Apr 2024 Location Brussels Subject Just transition Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Attending - Aleksandra Baranska (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Apr 2024 Location Brussels Subject just transition policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Attending - Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject Exchange with the board of Trade Union Pro on Commissioner priorities and international partnerships. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
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Date 14 Sep 2021 Location Brussels Subject FinUnions 25th anniversary event in December 2021. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Arto Virtanen (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Mar 2021 Location Videoconference Subject SDG 8, cooperation with civil society and social partners in the partner countries. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
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Date 25 Apr 2019 Location Brussels Subject Finnish EU Presidency Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Risto Artjoki (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Jan 2019 Location Brussels Subject European elections, priorities of Finunions Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Antti Timonen (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Mar 2018 Location Brussels Subject Exchange of views on the upcoming social package mainly on European labour authority and the monitoring of the European Pillar of Social Rights Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject Trade & sustainable development Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Isabelle Magne (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Oct 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium. Subject FinUnions views on trade agenda Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)