Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
PREPARE AISBL (PREPARE)
EU Transparency Register
664105013528-37 First registered on 24 Apr 2014
Goals / Remit
The aim of the PREPARE programme is to strengthen civil society and to promote multi-national exchange in rural development, with a main focus on the new EU member states and accession and neighbourhood countries of Central and Eastern Europe. PREPARE partners wish to promote dialogue, trust, confidence and co-operation between local actors, governments and all stakeholders of rural development, at all geographic levels. Their desire is to see rural communities empowered to participate in decision-making related to sustainable rural development.
Main EU files targeted
Common Agricultural Policy
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
European Regional Fund
European Social Fund
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
European Neighbourhood PolicyAddress
Head Office
Chaussee Saint Pierre 260
Etterbeek, Brussels 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 8 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The PREPARE partnership embraces 20 organisations. Each partner organisation is represented on the Organising Group. Each partner organisation has its own board, typically between 5 and 15 persons. All boards are dealing with European rural and regional development policy, which means that there are approximately 100 persons involved indirectly in the scope of the Transparency Register. In total, the 19 partner organisations have over 10,000 member organisations or affiliated local groups and over 100,000 individual members.
The actual costs for staff are low due to the fact that PREPARE is a project organisation depending on successes in different calls and applications. The voluntary effort is considerable.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
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Co-initiating body of the European Rural Parliament
www.europeanruralparliament.comMember organisations
https://prepare-network.eu/index.php/members/
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
Being a project-organisation, the Board looks for funding from different sources. PREPARE was a partner in an Europe for Citizens call and got 10000€ financing to organise an event and to it related expertise and travel costs and to be used by the end of January 2020 (5000€ in January 2020). PREPARE is part of another ERASMUS application and expects results by end of September 2021 with a budget around 15000€ for 2021-2023. PREPARE was partner in a Horizon consortia in 2020 on on-line activities but without success. PREPARE is possible involved in a LEADER TNC and some small income may result, but Covid is breaking the progress. Costs in 2020 were 5109€,most of it EU-project payment out.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Rural Network's Steering Group#E03278#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3278 #Member #C#Civil society#Rural Network's Assembly#E03277#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3277 #Member #C#Civil society#Leader and Community-Led Local Development#CDG Rural Development#E03201#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3201 #Member #C#Civil society
Groups (European Parliament)
Rural, Mountainous and remote areas (RUMRA) and smart villages
Communication activities
Due to the Coronavirus, on-line activities have dominated the agenda. The Gathering in Moldova May 2020 was cancelled. PREPARE arranged in 2020 three international webinars on rural development (1. national rural parliaments 2. Pre-accession and LEADER, 3. Rural trends in Europe) and participated in several on-line events, eg the first Kosovo Rural Parliament. PREPARE joined the RUMRA Intergroup and is involved in a Horizon project called SHERPA (in the European Hub part) through its Vice-president.PREPARE (jointly with European Rural Community Alliance and European LEADER Association for Rural Development) is planning in 2021 and organising in October 2022 with the host the 5th ERP Gathering, which will be organised partly as a hybrid-event. Also on-line rural development cafés are planned with members. One café was organised in spring 2021.
Other activities:
Possible participation in an ERASMUS- project if successful - decision by the end of SEptember 2021.
Empowerment of rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Cooperation with REMADEL -Réseau Maghrebin des associations pour le développement local en milieu ruralOther activities
PREPARE Gatherings: Slovenia 2019 (GA and visits), Kosovo 2018 Albania 2016, Estonia 2014, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013, Serbia 2011, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2010, Slovenia and Croatia 2009, Czech Republic 2006.
PREPARE Workshops: Georgia and Armenia 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2012, Rural Development in Turkey 2012.
Conferences and Travelling Workshops April 2014, focused on 'Empowering Rural Stakeholders in the Western Balkans' - jointly initiated by PREPARE, Standing Working Group for Regional Rural Development, and European Commission's TAIEX Unit, with report of same name published by European Commission in October 2014.
Other events initiated by PREPARE partners with PREPARE support - Lithuanian Rural Parliament 2014, European Rural Parliament 2013, Conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013, Latvian Rural Parliament 2013, Estonian Rural Parliament 2011 and 2013, Slovenian Rural Parliament 2011 and 2012, Conference about Rural Parliaments in Scotland 2012, Swedish Rural Parliament 2010, SURE Conference Poland 2010, EQUAL Policy Forum Hannover 2007, Second Congress of the Lithuanian Rural Communities’ Union 2007, Conference “Leader in the New Member States”, Hungary 2006.
Attending the ENRD Coordinations Committee, ENRD LEADER Sub-committee and Rural Development Advisory Group at DG Agri, Attending European conferences related to Rural development, LEADER and CLLD.- Meetings
Meetings
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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.
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Date 18 Jan 2023 Location Brussels Subject Meeting on 5th European Rural Parliament Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Toma Sutic (Cabinet member)
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