Overview
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.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
7
High-level Commission meetings
31
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Digital Rights (EDRi)
EU Transparency Register
16311905144-06 First registered on 28 Jan 2011
Goals / Remit
EDRi is the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online. The EDRi network is a dynamic and resilient collective of 45+ NGOs, as well as experts, advocates and academics working to defend and advance digital rights across Europe and beyond. Together, we build a movement of organisations and individuals pushing for robust and enforced laws, informing and mobilising people and promoting a healthy and accountable technology market.
Our mission is to challenge private and state actors who abuse their power to control or manipulate the public. We do so by advocating for robust and enforced laws, informing and mobilising people, promoting a healthy and
accountable technology market, and building a movement of organisations and individuals
committed to digital rights and freedoms in a connected world.
Since January 2003, EDRi regularly publishes the EDRi-gram, a bi-weekly email newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe.Main EU files targeted
- Digital Services Act
- Artificial Intelligence Act
- Mass surveillance
- ePrivacy Regulation
- Eurodac
- Europol mandate reform
- General Data Protection Regulation implementation
- Cross-border access to electronic evidence
- Online terrorist content regulation
- Child Sex Abuse Regulation
- Digital Single Market
- International trade agreements
- European Health Data Spaces
- Political Ads Regulation
- European Media Freedom Act
- Digital Markets Act
- ePrivacy derogation
- Law Enforcement Directive
- Spyware
- Cyber resilience Act
- Digital euro
- Age verification
- Facilitation package
- Political adsAddress
Head Office
Rue Belliard, 12
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Belliard, 12
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 8 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
8
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
7 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 25 Apr 2024
Name Start date End Date Itxaso DOMINGUEZ DE OLAZABAL 06 Dec 2023 05 Dec 2024 Andreea BELU 24 Jan 2024 23 Jan 2025 Sarah CHANDER 13 Sep 2023 11 Sep 2024 Ella JAKUBOWSKA 08 Sep 2023 06 Sep 2024 Chloe BERTHELEMY 08 Sep 2023 06 Sep 2024 Claire FERNANDEZ 24 Oct 2023 23 Oct 2024 Jan PENFRAT 09 Sep 2023 06 Sep 2024 Ms Andreea BELU 24 Jan 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Itxaso DOMINGUEZ DE OLAZABAL 06 Dec 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Claire Fernandez 24 Oct 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Sarah CHANDER 13 Sep 2023 15 Apr 2024 Mr Jan PENFRAT 09 Sep 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Ella JAKUBOWSKA 08 Sep 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Chloe BERTHELEMY 08 Sep 2023 15 Apr 2024 Mr Diego Naranjo 08 Sep 2023 20 Jan 2024 Mr Sebastian BECKER CASTELLARO 31 Jan 2023 06 Dec 2023 Ms Andreea BELU 06 Jan 2023 06 Jan 2024 Mr Jan PENFRAT 06 Oct 2022 09 Sep 2023 Ms Sarah CHANDER 08 Sep 2022 08 Sep 2023 Ms Ella JAKUBOWSKA 02 Sep 2022 02 Sep 2023 Ms Chloe BERTHELEMY 24 Aug 2022 24 Aug 2023 Mr Diego Naranjo 24 Aug 2022 24 Aug 2023 Mr Sebastian BECKER CASTELLARO 22 Dec 2021 22 Dec 2022 Ms Ella JAKUBOWSKA 20 Sep 2021 02 Sep 2022 Mr Diego Naranjo 20 Sep 2021 24 Aug 2022 Ms Sarah CHANDER 17 Sep 2021 08 Sep 2022 Ms Chloe BERTHELEMY 15 Sep 2021 24 Aug 2022 Mr Jan PENFRAT 15 Sep 2021 15 Sep 2022 Mr Jan Weisensee 20 Feb 2020 20 Feb 2021 Mr Jan Weisensee 21 Feb 2019 20 Feb 2020 Ms Chloe BERTHELEMY 14 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021 Ms Laureline LEMOINE 10 Dec 2019 10 Jun 2020 Mr Diego Naranjo 06 Sep 2019 05 Sep 2020 Ms Chloe BERTHELEMY 06 Mar 2019 14 Feb 2020 Ms Claire Fernandez 26 Feb 2019 01 Mar 2020 Mr Diego Naranjo 21 Sep 2018 06 Sep 2019 Ms Maryant FERNANDEZ PÉREZ 07 Sep 2018 17 Jan 2019 Mr Joseph Gerard McNAMEE 01 Jun 2018 17 Jan 2019 Mr Diego Naranjo 08 Sep 2017 05 Sep 2018 Ms Maryant FERNANDEZ PÉREZ 06 Sep 2017 05 Sep 2018 Mr Joseph Gerard McNAMEE 20 Mar 2017 03 Mar 2018 Ms Maryant FERNANDEZ PÉREZ 30 Sep 2016 06 Sep 2017 Mr Diego Naranjo 30 Sep 2016 08 Sep 2017 Mr Joseph Gerard McNAMEE 09 Mar 2016 08 Mar 2017 Ms Maryant FERNANDEZ PÉREZ 23 Sep 2015 17 Sep 2016 Ms Maryant Fernadez Pérez 23 Sep 2015 01 Oct 2015 Mr Diego Naranjo 23 Sep 2015 17 Sep 2016 Ms Kirsten Ariane FIEDLER 28 Apr 2015 23 Apr 2016 Ms Heini Jarvinen 25 Apr 2015 23 Apr 2016 Mr Joseph Gerard McNAMEE 11 Feb 2015 04 Feb 2016 Ms Marie Hélène Elisabeth HUMEAU 30 Jan 2014 30 Jan 2015 Ms Kirsten Ariane FIEDLER 30 Jan 2014 30 Jan 2015 Ms Maryant Fernadez Pérez 11 Nov 2014 23 Sep 2015 Mr Diego Naranjo 30 Oct 2014 23 Sep 2015 Mr Joseph Gerard McNAMEE 07 Feb 2014 06 Feb 2015 Mrs Marie Hélène Elisabeth HUMEAU 30 Jan 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mrs Kirsten Ariane FIEDLER 30 Jan 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mrs Marie Hélène Elisabeth HUMEAU 15 Feb 2013 30 Jan 2014 Mrs Kirsten Ariane FIEDLER 15 Feb 2013 30 Jan 2014 Mr Joseph Gerard McNAMEE 15 Feb 2013 07 Feb 2014 Mrs Marie Hélène Elisabeth HUMEAU 30 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mrs Kirsten Ariane FIEDLER 30 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mr Joseph Gerard McNAMEE 24 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
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
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).Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
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.
Total organisational budget in closed year
2,160,459€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations, Grants, Member's contributions, Other
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Network of European foundations (Civitates, EAISF) 395,706€ Contribution MacArthur Foundation 170,364€ Contribution Membership fees 107,698€ Contribution Individual donations 45,291€ Contribution Corporate donations 54,365€ Contribution Luminate 334,107€ Contribution Open Society Foundations 310,973€ Contribution Stichting Adessium 112,500€ Contribution Ford Foundation 191,929€ Contribution Stichting Democratie en Media 46,918€ Grant European Data Protection Supervisor 9,900€ Other financial info
Our finances are publicly available on our website (https://edri.org/annual-report-2021/0001.html) and on the website of the Belgian national bank (https://consult.cbso.nbb.be/consult-enterprise)
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
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.
Other activities
We would also like to emphasize that EDRi is not involved in lobbying activities, because we don't have any direct or indirect financial gain from these activities. EDRi is active in advocating the European institutions for human rights and their recognition in the information society and the inclusion of these principles in any act adopted by the European Union.
EDRi's main advocacy activities are related to digital civil rights issues, including: freedom of expression and privacy on the internet.
At the same time we believe that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed.- Meetings
Meetings
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.
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Date 13 Dec 2023 Location Videoconference Subject Digital policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Date 26 Jan 2022 Location virtual Subject Digital issues DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 26 Jan 2022 Location virtual Subject Digital issues DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 28 Oct 2021 Location Videoconference Subject DSA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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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)
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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)
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Date 09 Dec 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable with NGOs on DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Centre for Democracy & Technology, Europe
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Wikimedia Foundation
- epicenter.works - Plattform Grundrechtspolitik
- Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband
- Counter Extremism Project
- Access Now Europe
- HOMO DIGITALIS ΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΜΗ ΚΕΡΔΟΣΚΟΠΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ
- Avaaz Foundation
- Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Date 03 Nov 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Digital Services Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Date 09 Oct 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Privacy Shield Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Renate Nikolay (Cabinet member)
- Věra Jourová (Commissioner)
- Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
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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)
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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 - Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
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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)
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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)
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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 - Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 14 Jun 2016 Location Brussels Subject Telecom review DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
- Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 25 Aug 2015 Location Brussels Subject Net Neutrality, TSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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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)
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Date 29 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Copyright reform, data protection issues Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
- Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jan 2015 Location BXL Subject net neutrality, copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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