Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
8
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd. (ICOS)
EU Transparency Register
99345863205-62 First registered on 11 Feb 2010
Goals / Remit
The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) is a co-operative umbrella organisation that serves and promotes commercial co-operative businesses and enterprise across multiple sections of the Irish economy.
ICOS represents 130 co-operatives, which collectively have over 150,000 individual members, employ >12,000 people in Ireland (a further 24,000 abroad) and has combined turnover of €14 billion. Starting from agriculture co-op roots, and the vision of our founding President, Sir Horace Plunkett in 1894; ICOS today has evolved to serve the co-operative sector in seven core categories, namely:
Multipurpose Dairy Co-ops
Livestock Sector Co-ops
Food, Fishing & Beverage Co-ops
Store, Trade & Wholesale Co-ops
Advisory and Education Related Co-ops
Community Oriented, Culture & Leisure Co-ops
Service Related Co-ops
Our mission is: Generating leadership, competitiveness and value through stronger co-operation and world class service.Main EU files targeted
European Legislation affecting Irish Co-ops, including:
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Trade (International, EU single market, BREXIT)
- EU budget
- Consumer legislation (inc labelling)
- Food supply chain
- Innovation and research funding
- Climate change and Energy policy
- Veterinary and animal health and welfare issues
- Food safety
- Transport of animals
- Environmental legislation
- Competition law relating to the organisation of primary producers
- FisheriesAddress
Head Office
The Plunkett HouseMerrion Square, 84
Dublin D02 T882
IRELANDEU Office
Rue de Treves 61ICOS ltd
Brussels 1040
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 22 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Damien O'REILLY 01 Sep 2024 31 Aug 2025 Damien O'REILLY 04 May 2023 04 May 2024 Ms Alison Graham 05 Oct 2021 05 Oct 2022 Ms Alison Graham 20 Nov 2019 01 Dec 2020 Ms Alison Graham 24 Nov 2018 20 Nov 2019 Ms Alison Graham 10 Nov 2017 10 Nov 2018 Ms Alison Graham 14 Oct 2016 05 Oct 2017 Mr Conor Mulvihill 07 Aug 2015 04 Aug 2016 Mr Conor Mulvihill 31 Jan 2014 30 Jan 2015 Mr Conor Mulvihill 26 Jan 2013 25 Jan 2014 Complementary Information
The ICOS European office has been a permanent fixture for since 1973, as long as Ireland has been a member of the EC.
It has always interacted with all of the European Institutions in a proactive, constructive and professional way.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 and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
ICOS is a member of COGECA, the General Confederation for Agriculture Co-operatives in the European Union.
www.copa-cogeca.eu
ICOS is also a member of U.E.C.B.V. – European Livestock and Meat Trading Union.
www.uecbv.eu/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
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Erasmus 70,142€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant Erasmus 45,253€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
These grants were for the following Erasmus + Projects:
- A fields project which is aimed at training and upskilling co-op leaders in our membership base.
- The AgriCoopValue Project, which is a training project that aims to create a favourable framework for the application of a unified social accounting system for agri-food co-operatives at European level, in order to monetise their social value and determine their multiplying capacity within rural environments across the European Union.
-Lead Farm 5.0 project which supports digital innovation. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
8 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 01 Oct 2024 Location Brussles Subject Current challenges for Irish agriculture Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Attending - Patricia Reilly (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 14 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Business discussion Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Climate, dairy sector in Ireland Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Peter Wehrheim (Cabinet member)
- Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject MFF, CAP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Jun 2016 Location Ireland Subject Climate Change Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Nov 2015 Location Ireland Subject Address ICOS Conference Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 01 Sep 2015 Location BRUSSELS Subject Agriculture Affairs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 29 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Medicated Feed and Veterinary Medicines Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)