Secretariat of COMECE (Commission of the Episcopates of the European Union)

Ad-hoc working group on sexual and reproductive health rights of the Catholic Office of the German Bishop Conference

Working Group “Europa” of the German Catholic Bishop Conference

European Sunday Alliance

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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.

1,387,013€

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Fighting against poverty,Freedom of religion and religious tolerance,Unofficial groupings

Contributions
• Contribution to the Shield Consortium final conference on protection of places of worship (February 2024)
• Contribution on freedom of religion in the EU at the European Jewish Association annual conference (June 2024)
• Contribution to EP discussions on child sexual abuse legislation (October 2024)
• Contribution to EP discussions on religious intolerance in Europe (October 2024)
• Contribution to the Conference on Church-State cooperation organised by the Hungarian Presidency of the EU (October 2024)
• “Europe, offer a renewed vision for justice and peace to the continent and to the world!”, Statement of the Bishops of COMECE in the context of serious deterioration of international security and peace (November 2023)
• “EU Member States must deliver the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive”, joint Statement with CIDSE in view of the adoption of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (February 2024)
• “Let us continue building Europe together”, Statement of the Bishops of COMECE on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement and the future of the EU Enlargement Policy (April 2024)
• “A heartfelt appeal for peace in the Holy Land and all the Middle East”, Statement of the President of COMECE on the situation in the Middle East (October 2024)
• Article in the conference publication book of “Görres – Gesellschaft” Die Sicht der Europäischen Bischofskonferenz auf die digitale Welt, Robotik und ethische Herausforderungen“ (November 2023)
• Position paper “Europe Calls for Responsibility - Ethical Demands for a Human Centric AI” (February 2024)
• Position paper “ Strenghthening the Culture of Democracy through Values “ (May 2024)
• Catholic toolkit for Young Europeans, written by the COMECE Youth Platform in collaboration with the COMECE Youth Net (May 2024)
• Statement “European Commission work programme for 2024: Make Sunday protection a priority”. European Sunday Alliance (November 2023)
• Internal reflection paper on Poverty (January 2024)
• Contribution to European Parliament Conference on Social Market (February 2024)
• Manifesto for the upcoming EU elections, European Sunday Alliance (March 2024)
• Contribution to DG EMPL Strategic Dialogue online meeting on the mid-term review of the Digital Education Action Plan and emerging challenges (September 2024)
• Contribution on social economy to GECES: Commission Expert Group on the Social Economy
• Video Campaign of the European Sunday Alliance, with support from MEPs (March 2024)
Events
• Study visit of the Legal Affairs Commission to the Court of Justice of the EU (February 2024)
• Dialogue event with the Committee of the Regions on diversity and inclusion (June 2024)
• Dialogue meeting between a delegation of Church, indigenous and youth community leaders from various Latin American countries and representatives of EU institutions and faith-based organisations from Belgium, on the impact of mining on local communities, and perspectives for a people-centred, just and sustainable transition (September 2024)
• “Is there a just war? European values in times of aggression”, a conference in Rome co-organised with European Future Talks and the Pontifical Gregorian University (October 2024)
• Meeting of EU Military Ordinariates, exchanges with relevant EU policymakers on challenges and perspectives for the Common Security and Defence Policy (October 2024)
• Event organized with the Permanent Representation of Nordrhein – Westfalen in Brussels: “Europe after the Elections – Perspectives on the Future of the EU” (July 2024)
• Care Dialogue in the EESC with faith based organisations, with Uni Global Union - Europa (October 2024)
• COMECE Youth Net webinar "Being a Christian in politics and society" (March 2024)
• COMECE-Webinar "Religious Heritage: an overlooked driver for a more sustainable and inclusive society" in the context of the New European Bauhaus Festival 2024 (April 2024)

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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.

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	11 Sep 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Enlargement policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Ildikó Voller-Szenci (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 Feb 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Social Economy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Portfolio	Jobs and Social Rights
  Attending	Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)

• Date	19 Sep 2022	Location	Online
  Subject	Social Economy and the SEAP implementation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Portfolio	Jobs and Social Rights
  Attending	Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Jun 2022	Location	VTC
  Subject	Celebrating the European Year of Youth
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner) Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet member)

• Date	14 Jan 2022	Location	virtual conference
  Subject	Article 17 dialogue
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas
  Portfolio	Promoting the European Way of Life
  Attending	Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President) Vangelis Demiris (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	association européenne de la pensée libre Unie Vrijzinnige Verenigingen

• Date	25 Nov 2021	Location	video-call
  Subject	Interfaith Convention on the European Green Deal
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)

• Date	29 Jun 2021	Location	VTC
  Subject	Exchange of views on the future of Lebanon
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner)

• Date	24 Jun 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	social policies and inclusion
  DG	Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  Attending	Joost Korte (Director-General)

• Date	10 Jun 2021	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	European Green Deal presentation and discussion
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Union for Progressive Judaism

• Date	18 Jan 2021	Location	VTC
  Subject	The state of play on the Southern Neighbourhood policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner)

• Date	07 Sep 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Green Paper on Ageing
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Portfolio	Democracy and Demography
  Attending	Astrid Dentler (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe

• Date	10 Jul 2020	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	Discussion on the European Green Deal with the Catholic Youth
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 Jun 2020	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	Preparation of youth dialogue meeting
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU Enlargement and opening of accession talks with Albania
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi
  Portfolio	Neighbourhood and Enlargement
  Attending	Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner)

• Date	25 Oct 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Meeting with the Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU
  DG	Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom
  Attending	Michel Barnier (Head of Task Force)

• Date	08 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Agriculture
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
  Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
  Attending	Phil Hogan (Commissioner)

• Date	14 Sep 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Dialogue selon l’Art. 17
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Bernardus Smulders (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Jun 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EMU reflection paper
  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	Kai Wynands (Cabinet member)

• Date	12 Oct 2016	Location	Comece Secretariat
  Subject	European Pillar of Social Rights and its role in ensuring good working conditions and account for the changes on the labour market.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Nov 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	social issues – including youth unemployment, the impact of austerity policies on citizens and child poverty
  DG	Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  Attending	Michel Servoz (Director-General)