Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
WSM (WSM)
EU Transparency Register
149390415828-18 First registered on 29 Jan 2015
Goals / Remit
WSM (vzw Wereldsolidariteit – Solidarité Mondiale asbl) strengthens social movements worldwide so they can transform their society into a sustainable and inclusive society. Together with organisations of Beweging.net and MOC, WSM reinforces networks of social movements in Belgium, Africa, Latin America and Asia in order to internationalise their joint struggle at local, national, regional and international level.
WSM and its network are working for inclusive and sustainable development. What does this imply?
- Development must be understood in its broader sense of building societies. It is clear that in the process of building societies, several possible paths can be followed. As NGO of the Christian Workers Movement, our path is towards a society with greater social justice and solidarity (and thus reduced poverty, social exclusion, inequality, and vulnerability). Development cooperation is one of the ways to contribute to building societies.
- This development must be in (...)Main EU files targeted
We have been actively following and contributing to the European Communication on Decent Work (2006/2010), on Social Protection in EU Development Cooperation (2012) and the role of Civil society in Development Cooperation (2012). We also closely follow up the contribution of the EU institutions to the implementation of the Agenda 2030, mainly from our thematic expertise: decent work and the right to social protection.
Recently, WSM has taken a very active interest in the issue of human rights due diligence and how to bring this within EU initiatives, policies and legisaltive files. As a result, WSM has contributed to the deliberations and negotiations of the EU Directive on Non-Financial Reporting (2014/95/EU) and the Conflict Minerals Regulation (2016). WSM is participating in the advocacy work along with european's NGO's and trade Union networks on a directive for a mandatory Human Right Due Diligence for Companies (2022).
In the European Parliament, we have actively worked together with MEP's on human rights resolutions condemning labour rights violations in several countries worldwide. We have also contributed to the drafting of Parliamentary Reports and questions of MEP's for EC Commissioners on issues relevant to our work in the field of labour rights and social protection. in 2017, WSM contributed to the EP Report on the impact of international trade and the EU’s trade policies on global value chains.Address
Head Office
Haachtsesteenweg 579
Brussels 1030 - 20
BELGIUMEU Office
Haachtsesteenweg 579
Brussels 1030 - 20
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
WSM has 3 advocacy officers which follow policy processes at the national, European and international level.
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
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
11.11.11, the Flemish North-South movement;
CNCD, the Nort-South movement of the French- and Germanspeaking communities in Belgium;
SKC, Clean Clothes Campaign Flanders;
Achact, Clean Clothes Campaign Wallonia;
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC);
Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF);
ILO Development Partners Meeting of the Global Flagship Programme for Social Protection Floors;
UN Social Protection Interagency Cooperation Board (UN SPIAC-B)
Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection (USP2030)
International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies (AIM)
EU-LAT NETWORKMember 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 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant néant 0€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
We will follow up as to how the above mentioned policies and initiatives are going to be implemented.
In terms of funding instruments, we also monitor if concrete opportunities arise under the 2014–2020 programme on Civil Society Organisations and Local Authorities, the Global Public Goods and Challenges Thematic Programme as well as the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights.
Between December 2018 and August 2019, WSM was closely involved in the drafting of a new Global Action on 'Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management', which was formally approved by the EC at the end of August 2019. the Global Action is funded by the EC, and will be implemented by the ILO, UNICEF and the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF). WSM was involved in this process on behalf of the GCSPF.
WSM has been involved, with a large range of other european's NGO's and trade unions in the public campaign claiming for the approbation of a directive on mandatory human rights due diligence for companies (2022).Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 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 05 Jun 2020 Location Video-conference Subject Sustainable corporate governance Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
- Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 26 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Labour rights in Brazil Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet member)