World Fair Trade Organization - Europe

World Fair Trade Organization (Global)
Fair Trade Advocacy Office
FAIB

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Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

10,000€ - 24,999€

10,000€ - 24,999€

The money paid to the Fair Trade Advocacy Office consist of membership fees only, no direct payment for services is ever made for their work in representing us and the broader Fair Trade movement towards the EU institutions and policy-makers.

We are beneficiaries to an Erasmus+ and have received a grant from this in 2022 and 2023. We have applied for other, similar EU grants and are waiting to hear whether they will be granted to us or not in the current financial year.

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In December 2020, WFTO-Europe finalised our engagement in the 'Trade Fair, Live Fair' (TFLF) project funded by the European Commission through the DEAR fund. The aim of the project was raising awareness and mobilising the European Public to advance consumption patterns that nurture the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This Action was built on the central insight, developed from the consortium members’ own extensive research and experience, that the continuing and endemic poverty among many producers and workers in developing countries is the direct result of imbalances of power in supply chains. However, the working and living conditions of those producers and workers are largely unknown to the EU Public, despite the strong interdependence between both. At the heart of this is the analysis that only through citizens’ better understanding of how supply chains work can they foster the change necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): change in their own behaviour, and the behaviour of both government and corporations. The project involved some activities with engaging MEPs and promoting policy recommendations towards the EC, e.g. in the form of a Civil Society Shadow EU Strategy on Textiles, Garments, Leather and Footwear.
Moreover, the WFTO-Europe organised a conference in the framework of the Belgian Fair Trade Week, in collaboration with the Trade for Development Centre of the Belgian Development Agency, titled "A Fair and Sustainable Business Model is Possible".
WFTO-Europe continues the efforts of raising awareness on the points above and to promote policy recommendations, as outlined above, also in various different forms, though at a lower scale since the end of the project. However, our direct involvement with EU institutions remain limited to submitting feedback to EC public consultations, and occasionally attending workshops by the EC when invited or attending joint meetings with the EC together with some of our close partners in civil society.

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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	22 Jan 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	sustainable and inclusive business models through EU external action
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member) Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Cooperatives Europe