Overview
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.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
LobbyControl
EU Transparency Register
6314918394-16 First registered on 15 Sep 2008
Goals / Remit
LobbyControl promotes transparency and a vivid democracy. We campaign for more transparency of lobbying and a legal, institutional and societal framework that limits undue influence of lobbyists on both politics and the public at large. Our organisation moreover works to expose and challenge the privileged and biased access and influence enjoyed by big corporations and their lobby groups on EU policy-making. Curbing the market power of major corporations is another aim of our work. LobbyControl was founded in 2005. We are committed to transparency about EU interest representation. We have been campaigning for this register since 2005 and have witnessed progress. Still the register fails to provide full EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. For example, all organisations in the register should be asked to provide a lobby budget.
Main EU files targeted
- Ethical Reforms after the @Qatargate Scandal in the EP
- Defence of Democracy Package
- Directive on Combating Corruption
- Implementation of the Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory Transparency Register of all three institutions
- Ethics Committee for all EU institutions
- Implementation of Digital Services Act (DSA)/Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the lobbying around it
- Lobbying about the AI act
- Green New Deal, gas package and the lobbying around it
- lack of legislative and lobbying transparency in the work of the Council. We looked at Council initiatives and decisions on strengthening legislative transparency as well as on corporate sponsorship of Presidencies
- Regulatory Scrutiny Board and Better Regulation Agenda
- Trade policy
- LobbyControl is together with the NGO Corporate Europe Observatory Operator of the Lobbyfacts.eu platformAddress
Head Office
Am Justizzentrum 7
Köln 50939
GERMANYEU Office
Am Justizzentrum 7
Köln 50939
GERMANYWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Max Noel Bank 05 Jul 2024 05 Jul 2025 Aurel Eschmann 25 Jun 2024 24 Jun 2025 Nina Katzemich-Sadrozinski 05 Jul 2024 25 Jun 2025 Ms Laura GROSSE 29 Oct 2019 29 Apr 2020 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 27 Jun 2019 27 Jun 2020 Mr Max BANK 19 May 2018 18 May 2019 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 19 May 2018 18 May 2019 Mr Max BANK 29 Mar 2017 10 Mar 2018 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 29 Mar 2017 10 Mar 2018 Mr Max BANK 25 Feb 2016 24 Feb 2017 Ms Nina KATZEMICH 25 Feb 2016 24 Feb 2017 Complementary Information
Since the transparency register was set up, we and other transparency organisations have disclosed the names of our lobbyists here - we see this is as an important part of lobbying transparency.
This is not allowed anymore since a new version of the register is being implemented. We object to this as it is a step back in lobbying transparency.
All staff members lobbying for LobbyControl are registered by name in the German Transparency Register: https://www.lobbyregister.bundestag.de/suche/R000176/7201?backUrl=%2Fsuche%3Fq%3DLobbyControl%26page%3D1%26pageSize%3D10%26sort%3DREGISTRATION_DESC
The four lobbyists actively lobbying the EU institutions are presented with name in the lobbypass columnPerson 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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
LobbyControl is a member of
- the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU, www.alter-eu.org),
- ENCO network
- German network for Corporate Accountability (CorA, www.cora-netz.de),
- Allianz „Rechtssicherheit für politische Willensbildung“
- LobbyControl is operator of the EU data portal "Lobbyfacts" (together with Corporate Europe Observatory)Member organisations
LobbyControl hat nur natürliche Personen als Mitglieder.
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
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.
Total organisational budget in closed year
1,807,771€
Major funding types in closed year
Member's contributions, Other, Donations
Funding types "other" information
We mainly receive funding by our 7764 members (private persons) and by donations outlined below. There is smaller contributions under 10.000 Euro out of the selling of studies etc. - this cannot be filled in in the list, as it only allows amounts over € 10.000. We add it under the column special purpose city tours
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Membership fees from private individuals 863,055€ Contribution Donations from private individuals 666,476€ Contribution Contributions Olin gGmbH 60,000€ Contribution Contributions Schöpflin Foundation 150,000€ Contribution Special Purpose City tours and sell of lobbycontrol goods 48,239€ Contribution Donations from inheritances 20,000€ Other financial info
LobbyControl regrets that non-commercial organisations don't have to give a Lobbybudget anymore. This leads to a lack of comparability of the data. The public will misunderstand this and compare lobbybudgets and general budgets. We are discussing this temporarily with the EU-Institutions. Meanwhile we give our lobbybudget voluntarily here:
LobbyControl's EU lobby budget in 2023 was: € 322.325 (calculated from the previously valid factors such as personnel costs, rent, material costs,...). -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Anti-corruption
Communication activities
2024:
- EU Lobbyreport: https://www.lobbycontrol.de/ueber-uns/publikationen-material/lobbyreport/
- Position paper on conflicts of interest in DG competition
- Petition for lobbying rules with teeth (for enforcement of the rules)
- Petition for more ressources to control the DMA
2023:
- Online-Petition: Gesetzgebung darf keine Geheimsache sein https://www.lobbycontrol.de/lobbyismus-in-der-eu/gesetzgebung-darf-keine-geheimsache-sein-2-105162/
- press conference refering to the reactions of the Parliament to Qatargate
- open letter together with other NGOs regarding the planned foreign agents law
2022:
- Letter to Vera Jourova on the implementation flaws of the new transparency register https://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/220202%20letter%20transparency%20register%20implementation_0.pdf
- legal opinion on the Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act
- Letter to the EU Parliament about necessary consequences following from the Kaili scandal together with the ALTER-EU network https://www.alter-eu.org/documents/2022/12/alter-eu-demands-in-reaction-to-the-kaili-scandal
2021
- Study: The firepower of the Big tech lobby https://www.lobbycontrol.de/2021/08/neue-studie-zur-lobbymacht-von-big-tech/
- research and blogposts about the power of Big Tech and the lobbying around DSA and DMA
- Letter to Thierry Breton and Margrethe Vestager warning of the aggressive and intransparent lobbying by Big Tech Companies on the Digital Services Act/Digital Markets Act
2020
- blogposts and articles about Germany's blocking of the EU proposal on the disclosure of Income Tax Information of transnational corporations
- Report together with Corporate Europe Observatory: Tainted Love - Corporate Lobbying and the upcoming German EU PresidencyOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
7 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 02 Jul 2024 Location Brussels Subject transparency, integrity, lobbying Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 15 Nov 2022 Location Online Subject Lobby control. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Mar 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Transparency register Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 21 Oct 2021 Location Videoconference Subject DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jul 2021 Location Videoconference Subject DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject Transparency Register Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)
- Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 02 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject Transparency notably of TiSA Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)
- Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Joakim Larsson (Cabinet member)