Humane Society International/Europe

- Convergence Animaux Politique (CAP) - France https://convergence-animaux-politique.fr/
- European Alliance for Plant-Based Foods (EAPF) https://plantbasedfoodalliance.eu/
- Fur Free Alliance (FFA) https://www.furfreealliance.com/
- Species Survival Network (SSN) https://ssn.org/

HSI is also involved in the following in connection with our work on alternatives to animal testing:

- CARACAL (Competent Authorities for REACH and Classification and Labelling) + nanomaterials sub-group
- ecopa (European Consensus Platform for Alternatives)
- ECVAM (European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods) Stakeholder Advisory Forum
- EPAA (European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing)
- ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) Risk Assessment Committee
- Human Toxicology Project Consortium
- ICAPO (International Council on Animal Protection at the OECD)
- ICAPPP (International Council on Animal Protection in Pharmaceutical Programmes)

Humane Society International/Europe is a registered Belgian non-profit entity, which is an affiliate of Humane Society International (HSI). https://www.hsi.org/

HSI is also the international arm of the Humane Society of the United States. https://www.humanesociety.org/

HSI does not have members per se, but has supporters and receives donations from individuals from across all EU Member States and beyond

Does not represent commercial interests

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

5,258,861€

Staff costs: € 271,499
Representation costs: € 18,414
Office & admin expenses: € 2,510*

* Calculation of proportion of costs of activities covered by the Transparency Register

Please note that the total budget includes the expenses for our Italian and German offices, which are primarily engaged in Member State rather than EU activities. A large proportion of these activities are not directly related to EU policymaking.

In 2023, the total figure for outsourced activity costs (i.e. fees for consultants & subcontractors) was € 52,027. HSI/Europe has contractual relationships with the following public affairs consultancies, primarily relating to national political decision-making, rather than at an EU level. We are presently working with the following entities in various Member States:


- L4E, (L Denier) - consultant assisting our work on wildlife trade issues at an EU level
- Central European Consulting (CEC) - Support of our political lobby activities in Poland, primarily directed at influencing national policy relating to animal protection
- Boldt - Strategic support & advice concerning REACH lobby at EU & German national level; support in Belgium for national Parliamentary lobby concerning trophy hunting
- Seebohm Berlin - Strategic support at a national level for farm animal campaign in Germany
- Levels - Strategic support for political campaigns at a national level in Romania
- Lumina Consult - lobby support on various campaigns at a national level in Italy
- Atrevia - lobby support on political campaigns, mainly at national level in Spain
- Hague Corporate Affairs - lobby support on REACH, primarily at a national level in the Netherlands

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Unofficial groupings,Welfare and conservation of animals

Events:

ECI Public hearing, Fur Free Europe, 12th October 2023

Pig welfare: Achieving new minimum and gold standards, 5th July 2023

Breakfast roundtable event on EU-Australia FTA negotiations, 23rd May 2023

Trophy hunting Conservation Tool, or a Threat to Wildlife?, 12th October 2022

Various events on wildlife trade organised in partnership with MEPs for Wildlife Group 2020-2021

The Future of Meat Analogues, 5th February 2019

Achieving coexistence with large carnivores in the EU, 7th March 2018

Mislabelled & misleading: fur labelling problems in the EU market, 27th September 2017

Plant-based Alternatives: Taking a Bite out of the Meat Market? 7th June 2017

Investing in animal suffering? Debating the investment of public funds in intensive animal production outside the EU, 8th February 2017

The EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement: An Opportunity to Influence Japanese Whaling Policies? 28th June 2016

Protecting Wildlife through International Trade Policy, 5th April 2016, Brussels

An Eagle Eye on TTIP: Agriculture, research & sustainable development - what's on the horizon?, 3rd March 2015, Brussels

The Free Lunch, 29th September 2015, Brussels

None declared

13 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.

• Date	25 Oct 2022	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	To discus Humane Society’s position concerning EU legislation on trophy hunting and EU position for the upcoming CITES CoP19.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Virginijus Sinkevičius (Commissioner) Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet member)

• Date	23 Feb 2022	Location	Virtual
  Subject	Meeting with HSI and ALTERTOX on animal testing
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Andrea Vettori (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	ALTERTOX

• Date	10 Feb 2022	Location	Virtual
  Subject	Meeting to handover a petition regarding animal testing
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Andrea Vettori (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Feb 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Meeting to handover a petition regarding animal testing
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Joan Canton (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 Jan 2022	Location	video-call
  Subject	Trophy hunting in relation to EU biodiversity objectives
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	The Born Free Foundation

• Date	28 Jan 2022	Location	Virtual
  Subject	Trophy hunting in relation to EU biodiversity objectives
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Andrea Vettori (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	The Born Free Foundation

• Date	21 Oct 2021	Location	Virtual
  Subject	To discuss the TOX Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius
  Portfolio	Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
  Attending	Camilla Bursi (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	ALTERTOX

• Date	19 Feb 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	The establishment of a second EU Reference Centre for animal welfare
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)

• Date	22 Nov 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	CITES
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella
  Portfolio	Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
  Attending	Sebastien Paquot (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Eurogroup for Animals

• Date	17 Sep 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU Protein
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Attending	Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)

• Date	07 Feb 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	International Finance Institutions and Animal Welfare
  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	Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 May 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	REACH
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella
  Portfolio	Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
  Attending	Aurore Maillet (Cabinet member)

• 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	Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet member) Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member) Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Euro Coop - European Community of Consumer Co-operatives ARCHE NOAH, Gesellschaft für die Erhaltung der Kulturpflanzenvielfalt und ihre Entwicklung European Professional Beekeepers Association Federation of Associations for Hunting & Conservation of the EU