Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.2 Fte (16)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
52
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Avaaz Foundation
EU Transparency Register
475565317526-24 First registered on 27 May 2015
Goals / Remit
Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues, from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change. Avaaz’s model of internet organising allows thousands of individual efforts, however small, to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force. By signing up to Avaaz emails, members are rapidly alerted to urgent global issues and opportunities to achieve change. The Avaaz community campaigns in 21 languages, served by a core team on 6 continents and thousands of volunteers. Avaaz takes action -- signing petitions, funding media campaigns and direct actions, emailing, calling and lobbying governments, and organizing "offline" protests and events -- to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform the decisions that affect humanity.
Main EU files targeted
Nature restoration law
Digital Services Act
EU Code of Practice on Disinformation
IMCO’s report on social media addictive design
Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence
Artificial Intelligence ActAddress
Head Office
Avaaz Foundation 27 Union Square West Suite 500
NEW YORK 10003
UNITED STATESEU Office
Avaaz Foundation 27 Union Square West Suite 500
NEW YORK 10003
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
16
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 4 10% 12 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 26 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Sarah Andrew 17 Jun 2024 17 Jun 2025 Sam RYAN 12 Jun 2024 30 Aug 2024 Nadia GUERLENDA CABRAL 07 May 2024 07 May 2026 Nadia GUERLENDA CABRAL 03 May 2023 04 May 2024 Sam RYAN 29 Apr 2023 27 Apr 2024 Nadia GUERLENDA CABRAL 13 Apr 2023 03 May 2023 Nadia GUERLENDA CABRAL 13 Apr 2023 20 Apr 2023 Sam RYAN 31 Mar 2022 31 Mar 2023 Mr Luca NICOTRA 11 Mar 2022 11 Mar 2023 Ms Sarah ANDREW 11 Mar 2022 11 Mar 2023 Complementary Information
Avaaz had approximately 16 team members that worked on the activities described in the box above in 2023. 4 of these people spent approximately 75% of their time on the listed activities, 6 spent about 10% of time on the listed activities and 6 spent about 5% of time on the listed activities.
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
People vs Big Tech
Member organisations
The Avaaz community is made up of more than 70 million members in more than 190 countries.
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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
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
Public Campaign
...Ukraine Stolen Children public action in Brussels (February 2023)
Online Campaigns
...AI Booklet Send a message online campaign and X - EU (May 2023)
...Nature Restauration Law EU Regional online campaign (June 2023)
...Ban Glyphosate Send a message online campaign (October 2023)
...AI vs Human rights bill EU Regional online campaign (September 2023)
...EU Consent Regional online campaign (October 2023)
...AI Act Greed Send a message online campaign (October 2023)
Meetings
*Nature Restauration Law
...Meeting with P.Canfin MEP, C.Luena MEP 15 June 2023
*Digital Service Act - meetings
...European Commision- VLAD-CALCIC Diana- DSA data access (22nd Feburary)
...DSA Roundtable with civil society and DG CNECT (9th June)
...Attendance to the Sixth Plenary of the Code of Practice on Disinformation (December 7th)
...Attendance of regular meetings of the Signatories of the Code of Practice Against Disinformation (Throughout the year)
*Digital Service Act - consultations
...Feedback to the Delegated Regulation on data access provided for in the Digital Services Act
*Digital Service Act - coms
...Tweet celebrating the start of DSA’s application to VLOPs (August 25th)
...Tweet celebrating the start of investigating Twitter under the DSA (December 18th)
...Co-signature of Open Letter to the EU Parliament on social media’s addictive design (11th December)
*Artificial intelligence
...European Commision-HU DG CONECT - Killian Gross and Ivanova Yordanka (30th January )
...EP-Green MEP Kim van Sparrentak (31st January)
...EP-SD MEP Brando Benifei (31st January)
...EP-Renew MEP Dragos Tudorache (31st January)
...EP- EPP MEP EVA Meydell advisor Slavina (29th March)
...EP- SD advisor Louis Dancourt (2nd June)
...EP- SD assistant MEP Vitanov - lidiya (5th June)
...EP- SD MEP brando (5th June)
...European Commission -Maurits-Jan (Breton’s Cabinet)
...Director for AI Lucilla Sioli (DG Connect) (18th September)
...EP -Round Tabla AIA fundamental right impact assessment (25th October)
...European Commission - Werner Stengg (5th December)
...European Commission- Maurits-Jan (5th December)
Position Papers
*Digital Service Act
...Report Big Tech, Little Action (7th February)
...Co-signature of an advocacy letter recommendations from civil society on article 40.12 of the DSA (27th June)
*Artificial Intelligence
...From Hope to harms (May)
...4 AIA myths (July)
...AI open letter (December)Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
52 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 09 Aug 2024 Location videoconference call Subject human rights, anti-discrimination policies, elections Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Jun 2024 Location Brussels Subject human rights, anti-discriminations policies Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Dec 2023 Location brussels Subject AI Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Dec 2023 Location Brussels Subject Artificial intelligence act Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Sep 2023 Location Brussels Subject AI Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Sep 2023 Location videoconference Subject AI Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Maurits-Jan Prinz (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject DSA and disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 16 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject DSA and the fight against disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 10 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject Digital Services Act Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)
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Date 10 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject DSA DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 10 Dec 2021 Location Videoconference Subject DSA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Dec 2021 Location Online Subject 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 29 Sep 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Fight against disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Jun 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Webinar on disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
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Date 24 Jun 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Code of Practice on disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 May 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
- Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Apr 2021 Location Online Subject Presentation of their report on disinformation, 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 25 Mar 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
- Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
- Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Mar 2021 Location Video conference Subject Substainable Corporate Governance Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
- Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Feb 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
- Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
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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 - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 25 Nov 2020 Location videoconference Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
- Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Nov 2020 Location Videoconference Subject DSA and EDAP Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Nov 2020 Location video conference Subject DSA and EDAP Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Nov 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jul 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Responsibility and accountability of online platforms Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Mar 2020 Location Brussels, videoconference Subject Climate action in the context of the European Green Deal Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet member)
- Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Jan 2020 Location Brussels Subject Avaaz work and discussion with the Commission's role against Misinformation. Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Maria Luisa Cabral (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Ulrik Trolle Smed (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Feb 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
- Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Feb 2019 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Jan 2019 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Oct 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Introducing Avaaz, Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)
- Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Election Security Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Julian King (Commissioner)
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Date 15 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 12 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Election Security Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Julie Ruff (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Vivian Loonela (Cabinet member)
- Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject Marine Protected Areas Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Andras Inotai (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Biodiversity, Ocean Governance Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Brian Synnott (Cabinet member)
- Andras Inotai (Cabinet member)
- Andrew Bianco (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting on Digital taxation, FTT and CBCR Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner)
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Date 26 Jun 2018 Location Berlaymont Subject Civil Society Outreach DG Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action Attending - Ann Mettler (Director-General)
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Date 20 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Disinformation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Neonicotinoids Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Leon Delvaux (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Aug 2017 Location Brussels Subject Acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer AG Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Leon Delvaux (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Migration Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Carlo Zadra (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Jun 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Climate Action and Energy Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Telmo Baltazar (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Avaaz campaign on glyphosate: - IARC report, monograph, wording of the mandate for EFSA; - Role of corporate-funded science in public health regulation;- Next steps in glyphosate review process;- Further engagement with Avaaz members (Meeting with Bert Wander) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject Migration Agenda Cabinet Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini Portfolio Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Attending - Fabrizia Panzetti (Cabinet member)