Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
PREPARE Partnership for Rural Europe (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. The 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
6
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The PREPARE partnership embraces 19 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.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Goran Šoster (president)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Goran Šoster (president)
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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
European Rural Parliament
Member organisations
http://preparenetwork.org/partnership/partners
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
EU grant income for closed financial year
14,687 € (Source: ALTER project through Serbian Rural Network)
Other financial info
Organisation has changed legal status.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
CDG Rural Development#E03201 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3201 #Member #C#Rural Network's Assembly#E03277 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3277 #Member #C#Leader and Community-Led Local Development#Structured Dialogue with European Structural and Investment Funds' partners group of experts#E03226 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3226 #Member #C#Rural Network's Steering Group#E03278 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3278 #Member #C
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
European Rural Parliament 2015 (jointly with European Rural Community Alliance and European LEADER Association for Rural Development.
Empowerment of rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Multi-national initiative in the Black Sea countries
Cooperation with REMADEL -Reseau Maghrebin des associations pour le développement local en milieu ruralOther activities
PREPARE Gatherings: 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
1 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.
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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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