European Digital Rights

EDRi is a member of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC) contributing to the policy work of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP).

EDRi is a member of European Association for the defense of Human Rights (AEDH).

ACCESS - (USA with European office in BE),
ALCEI - (Italy),
Alternative Informatics Association (Turkey),
Association for Technology and Internet - (Romania),
Article19 (UK),
Bits of Freedom - (The Netherlands),
Chaos Computer Club e.V. - (Germany),
Digital Rights Ireland (Ireland),
digitalcourage - (Germany),
Digitale Gesellschaft - (Germany),
DFRI - (Sweden),
Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) - (Finland),
Electronic Frontier Foundation - (USA, with European Office in BE),
Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung - (Germany),
Foundation for Information Policy Research - (UK),
Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft - (Germany),
Internet Society Bulgaria (Bulgaria),
The IT-Political Association of Denmark - (Denmark),
Iuridicum Remedium - (Czech Republic),
Initiative fur Netzfreiheit - (Austria),
Liga voor Mensenrechten - (Belgium),
Metamorphosis - (North Macedonia),
Modern Poland Foundation (Poland),
Nodo50.org - (Spain),
Open Rights Group - (UK),
Panoptykon Foundation - (Poland),
Privacy International - (UK),
quintessenz - (Austria),
Statewatch (UK),
Vrijschrift - (The Netherlands),
VIBE!AT - (Austria),
Wikimedia Germany (Germany),
Share Foundation (Serbia),
Electronic Frontier Norway (Norway),
Epicenter.works (Austria),
Instituto para la Cultura Democrática en la era digital - Asociación Conservas (Spain),
Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights (Italy),
Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. (Germany)
Europäisches Zentrum für digitale Rechte (Austria)
Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Germany)
Electronic Privacy Information Center (USA)
Index on Censorship - Writers' and Scholars' Educational Trust (United Kingdom)
HomoDigitalis (Greece)
Defesa dos Direitos Digitais (Portugal)
La Quadrature du Net (France)
Dataskydd (Sweden)
Drzavljan D (Slovenia)
Open Future (The Netherlands)
Digitale Gesellschaft CH (Switzerland)

More info on : https://edri.org/about-us/our-network/?organisations-status=member

Does not represent commercial interests

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.

2,160,459€

Our finances are publicly available on our website (https://edri.org/our-work/edri-annual-report-2023-our-collective-impact-defending-digital-rights-in-europe/) and on the website of the Belgian national bank (https://consult.cbso.nbb.be/consult-enterprise)

None declared

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Campaigns on key topics of the organisation, organisation of events related to privacy and surveillance such as the annual PrivacyCamp conference, publication of booklets, position papers, bi-weekly newsletters and citizen guides to public consultations.

None declared

31 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.

• Date	12 Sep 2024	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	GDPR and data flows - state of play and future prospects.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
  Attending	Bruno Gencarelli (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Access Now Europe

• Date	13 Dec 2023	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Digital policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Attending	Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Date	29 Aug 2023	Location	videoconference call
  Subject	European Media Freedom Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	EURONEWS

• Date	08 Sep 2022	Location	online
  Subject	Telecom, Open Internet Regulation.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	IT-Political Association of Denmark

• Date	20 May 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Protecting net neutrality, confidentiality of information, eID
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Jan 2022	Location	virtual
  Subject	Digital issues
  DG	Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  Attending	Roberto Viola (Director-General)

• Date	28 Oct 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	DSA
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Access Now

• Date	20 Jul 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Attention points on DSA legislative process
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Access Now

• Date	22 Feb 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Disinformation COVID -19
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Google

• Date	09 Dec 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member) Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Access Now Europe Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Date	06 Nov 2020	Location	Brussels (WEBEX)
  Subject	Digital issues
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Workday

• Date	06 Nov 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Austrian NetzDG and Digital Services Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	epicenter.works - Plattform Grundrechtspolitik

• Date	06 Nov 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Austrian NetzDG and Digital Services Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	epicenter.works - Plattform Grundrechtspolitik

• Date	03 Nov 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Digital Services Act
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)

• Date	22 Sep 2020	Location	videoconference
  Subject	Anti-Racism Action Plan measures regarding artificial intelligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli
  Portfolio	Equality
  Attending	Helena Dalli (Commissioner)

• Date	24 Jul 2020	Location	videoconference
  Subject	Artificial Intelligence & biometrics
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President)

• Date	01 Jul 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	To discuss Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)

• Date	25 May 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Fundamental rights and digital policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet member) Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 May 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Fundamental Rights, EC response to COVID 19, GDPR, Artificial Intelligence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member) Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member) Daniel Braun (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Access Now Europe

• Date	30 Apr 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Fundamental rights and digital policies
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
  Portfolio	Internal Market
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member) Thierry Breton (Commissioner)

• Date	09 Oct 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Privacy Shield
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Commissioner) Renate Nikolay (Cabinet member) Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Access Now

• Date	29 May 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Data flows in trade agreements
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Thomas Zerdick (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

• Date	01 Mar 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Privacy Shield, GDPR implementation and e-Privacy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
  Portfolio	Digital Single Market
  Attending	Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member) Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	Privacy International Access Now Europe

• Date	05 Jan 2018	Location	Brussels, BERL
  Subject	exchange of views on access to electronic evidence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Liene Balta (Cabinet member)

• Date	07 Mar 2017	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Privacy shield, GDPR
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
  Attending	Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

• Date	07 Mar 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	e-Privacy proposal, general data protection regulation-state of play, privacy shield and international transfer
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
  Portfolio	Digital Single Market
  Attending	Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

• Date	14 Jun 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Telecom review
  DG	Günther Oettinger
  Attending	Markus Schulte (Cabinet member) Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Bundesverband Breitbandkommunikation e.V.

• Date	25 Aug 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Net Neutrality, TSM
  DG	Günther Oettinger
  Attending	Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

• Date	20 Feb 2015	Location	Berlaymont, Brussels
  Subject	TTIP, Data protection reform, rule of law on internet
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Bernd Martenczuk (Cabinet member)

• Date	29 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Copyright reform, data protection issues
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
  Portfolio	Digital Single Market
  Attending	Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member) Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Jan 2015	Location	BXL
  Subject	net neutrality, copyright
  DG	Günther Oettinger
  Attending	Anna Herold (Cabinet member)