Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€
Financial year: Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (FOREST)
EU Transparency Register
610988810827-74 First registered on 19 Mar 2013
Goals / Remit
Founded in the United Kingdom in 1979, FOREST mission is to protect the interests of adults who choose to smoke tobacco and do not wish to quit. We also represent non-smoking adults who are tolerant of other people's enjoyment of tobacco.
Our aims and objectives are to:
– counteract the “denormalisation” of tobacco
– prevent further restrictions on the purchase and consumption of tobacco
- lobby politicians to amend public smoking bans to accommodate those who choose consumer a legal product
– establish closer links with other tobacco-related groups at home and abroad
– highlight the increasingly intrusive nature of government in the lives of private individualsMain EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Sheraton House
Cambridge CB3 0AX
UNITED KINGDOM -
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
Mr Simon Clark (Director)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€
Other financial info
Forest receives donations from British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco Limited and Gallaher Limited (a member of the Japan Tobacco Group of Companies).
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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
None declared