Transparency International Liaison Office to the European Union

Transparency International EU is part of the Transparency International movement, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.

Transparency International is a global network including more than 100 locally established national chapters and chapters-in-formation. These bodies fight corruption in the national arena in a number of ways. TI’s global network of chapters and contacts also use advocacy campaigns to lobby governments to implement anti-corruption reforms.

Transparency International as a global movement works with a large number of other actors on specific aspects – national governments, international organisations, civil society, media, the private sector and individual citizens.

Transparency International EU is a member of:

UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) Civil Society Coalition - https://uncaccoalition.org/
Finance Watch - https://www.finance-watch.org/
Civil Society Europe - https://civilsocietyeurope.eu/
European Policy Centre - https://epc.eu/en/
Whistleblowing International Network - https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/Home
Open Spending EU Coalition - https://www.open-spending.eu/
People vs Big tech - https://peoplevsbig.tech/

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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.

982,414€

Financial information provided is only for Transparency International EU. Due to the nature of the activities carried out by the office, the full operating budget of TI EU is considered to be for lobbying activities. Experts, senior staff members and project associates from TI are involved on an occasional basis. This is explained in the number of persons involved section.

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Anti-corruption

The latest information on our communication activities and our publications can always be found on our websites:

https://transparency.eu for general information
https://transparency.eu/publications/ for our publications

Transparency International EU is also active on Linkedin, Instagram (transparencyeu) and Twitter (@TI_EU).

Recent EU-related publications include (can all be found on our website):

- 2024 Briefing: lobby transparency in the EU
- 2024 Election Manifesto
- 2024 Report: Fossil Fuel Influence on European Commission
- 2024 Report: MEP side activities
- 2024 Policy Position: Defence of Democracy Package
- 2024 Opinion piece: limitations of EU sanctions
- 2024 Opinion piece: triggering Article 7(2) against Hungary
- 2023 Policy Brief on Conflict-of-Interest Risk in European Parliament
- 2023 Infographic on EU Restrictive Measures
- 2023 Briefing on Transparency in MEP Travel Declarations
- 2023 Report on Qatargate, six months on
- 2022 Policy brief on the proposed EU anti-money laundering package
- 2022 Report on 12 things the EU can do NOW to Help Ukraine
- 2022 Briefing "Has the EU done all it can to help Ukraine?"
- 2021 Report on big tech lobbying activities within the EU institutions
- 2021 Reports on the European Union Integrity System
- 2021 Report on Asset Recovery
- 2020 Report on the use of open data for political integrity in the EU
- 2020 Report on tax affair's of the European Banking sector
- 2019 Report on The Eurogroup’s Accountability
- 2019 Report on Asset Recovery
- 2018 Report on Golden Visas
- 2018 Report on the outside incomes of MEPs
- 2018 Best Practice Guide for Whistleblowing Legislation
- 2017 Report on EU funds to promote Rule of Law
- 2017 Report on revolving doors in the EU Institutions
- 2017 Report on Money laundering in the EU
- 2017 Report on the EU's role in timber trade
- 2017 Reports on the ESM and ECB
- 2016 Report on the EIB
- 2016 Report on transparency in the Council
- 2016 Report on Integrity Pacts
- 2015 Report on Lobbying in Europe
- 2015 Policy Paper on the EU Legislative Footprint
- 2014 Report on the European Union Integrity System

Transparency International EU manages EU Integrity Watch online database containing information on EU lobbying activities in the European Commission and the European Parliament, declarations of financial interests published by MEPs as well as on EU public procurement notices:
https://www.integritywatch.eu/

All information for the activities of the global movement of Transparency International can be found here: www.transparency.org

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67 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	04 Jul 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sovereignty law
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President) Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Jul 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Rule of Law in Hungary
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
  Attending	Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member) Geneviève Tuts (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Jul 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Sovereignity law
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Attending	Antoine Kasel (Cabinet member) Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Jul 2024	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Rule of Law situation in Hungary
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn
  Attending	Johannes Noack (Cabinet member)

• Date	20 Oct 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Rule of Law in Hungary
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson
  Portfolio	Home Affairs
  Attending	Alice Brokelind (Cabinet member)

• Date	20 Oct 2023	Location	BERL
  Subject	rule of law in Hungary
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Portfolio	Jobs and Social Rights
  Attending	Christoph Nerlich (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Sep 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of Democracy Package
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Maria Luisa Cabral (Cabinet member)

• Date	22 Sep 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting to discuss the conditionality mechanism
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn
  Portfolio	Budget and Administration
  Attending	Johannes Noack (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 Jul 2023	Location	videoconference call
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Partnership for Democracy

• Date	06 Jul 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member) Věra Jourová (Vice-President) Zuzana Dorazilova (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting European Partnership for Democracy European Civic Forum

• Date	26 May 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU Foreign Interference Directive
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Europe Fit for Digital Age
  Attending	Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Civil Society Europe

• Date	24 May 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Media policy and Defence of Democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member) Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)

• Date	24 Apr 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of democracy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders
  Portfolio	Justice
  Attending	Joachim Herrmann (Cabinet member) Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Democracy International e.V. Amnesty International Limited

• Date	17 Mar 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Defence of democracy package
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	European Citizen Action Service

• Date	10 Mar 2023	Location	videoconference call
  Subject	Ethics Body
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member) Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet member)

• Date	27 Jan 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Ethics and transparency
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet member)

• Date	01 Mar 2022	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Transparency register
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Access Info Europe

• Date	12 Oct 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	“MFF conditionality mechanism”
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn
  Portfolio	Budget and Administration
  Attending	Johannes Noack (Cabinet member)

• Date	17 Nov 2020	Location	videoconference
  Subject	Transparency register
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Nov 2020	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Democracy Support Roundtable
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Partnership for Democracy

• Date	04 Nov 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	MFF/rule of law conditionality
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn
  Portfolio	Budget and Administration
  Attending	Johannes Noack (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Sep 2020	Location	Video call
  Subject	The Green Deal implemetation with view to external relations
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Helena Braun (Cabinet member) Anthony Agotha (Cabinet member) Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	CARE International Aisbl Conservation International Europe Environmental Investigation Agency

• Date	19 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Transparency and ethics
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Simona Constantin (Cabinet member) Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member)

• Date	31 Jan 2020	Location	Budapest, Hungary
  Subject	Protection of the European Union's Financial Interests: OLAF's Role
  DG	European Anti-Fraud Office
  Attending	Ville Itälä (Director-General)

• Date	31 Jan 2020	Location	Budapest, Hungary
  Subject	Fight against fraud and corruption
  DG	European Anti-Fraud Office
  Attending	Ville Itälä (Director-General)

• Date	27 Jun 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Situation in Georgia
  Cabinet	Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini
  Portfolio	Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  Attending	Jani Taivalantti (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 May 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Online Disinformation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
  Portfolio	Digital Economy and Society
  Attending	Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 May 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Inter-Institutional Agreement for a mandatory Transparency Register
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)

• Date	23 Feb 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	The paper published on structural funds and rule of law conditionality, ‘Can EU funds promote the rule of law in Europe?
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici
  Portfolio	Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
  Attending	Ioana Diaconescu (Cabinet member)

• Date	30 Jan 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory transparency register; whistleblower protection
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)

• Date	29 Jan 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Current trends in competition enforcement
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager
  Portfolio	Competition
  Attending	Friedrich Wenzel Bulst (Cabinet member)

• Date	25 Jan 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Whistleblower protection.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici
  Portfolio	Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
  Attending	David Boublil (Cabinet member)

• Date	19 Jan 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Whistleblowers
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Commissioner) Kevin O'Connell (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 Jan 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	MFF
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger
  Portfolio	Budget & Human Resources
  Attending	Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Open Society European Policy Institute

• Date	21 Nov 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU anti-corruption policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos
  Portfolio	Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship
  Attending	Konstantinos Chatzifotis (Cabinet member) Giorgios Rossides (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Oct 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Discussion sur la transparence
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici
  Portfolio	Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
  Attending	Reinhard Felke (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Sep 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Structural Funds and rule of law
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Corina Crețu
  Portfolio	Regional Policy
  Attending	Anna-Lena Zademach-Schwierz (Cabinet member) Tomas Nejdl (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Centre for European Reform

• Date	08 Sep 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Inter-Institutional Agreement on a Mandatory Transparency Register
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Jul 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	anti-corruption aspects of European Semester
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Massimo Suardi (Cabinet member)

• Date	29 Jun 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU whistleblowers protections initiatives
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	EUROCADRES - THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL STAFF

• Date	20 Apr 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Emissions scandal
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
  Portfolio	Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  Attending	Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Mar 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Transparency Register and anti-corruption
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Antoine Colombani (Cabinet member) Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)

• Date	26 Jan 2017	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Meeting with Mr Cobus de Swardt
  DG	Regional and Urban Policy
  Attending	Marc Lemaître (Director-General)

• Date	23 Nov 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Role of transparency and accountability in the new Development Consensus
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica
  Portfolio	International Cooperation & Development
  Attending	Nils Behrndt (Cabinet member)

• Date	12 Jul 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Fight against corruption
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
  Portfolio	Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
  Attending	Hilde Hardeman (Cabinet member)

• Date	17 Jun 2016	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Cooperation against corruption in developing countries
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica
  Portfolio	International Cooperation & Development
  Attending	Nils Behrndt (Cabinet member) Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)

• Date	25 May 2016	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Anti-money laundering directive
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
  Attending	Věra Jourová (Commissioner) Isabelle Perignon (Cabinet member)

• Date	10 Mar 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	CBCR
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Network on Debt and Development

• Date	10 Mar 2016	Location	Belgium, Brussels, BERL
  Subject	Councty by Country Reporting (CBCR)
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill
  Portfolio	Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Sebastian Kuck (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Network on Debt and Development

• Date	03 Mar 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Green Paper on Retail Financial Services
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill
  Portfolio	Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Denzil Davidson (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Edelman Public Relations Worldwide

• Date	02 Feb 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU Tax Agenda
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	The ONE Campaign

• Date	02 Feb 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Discuss Corporate Tax Avoidance Package
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Antoine Kasel (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Network on Debt and Development

• Date	29 Jan 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU Anti curruption policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos
  Portfolio	Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship
  Attending	Diane Schmitt (Cabinet member) Giorgios Rossides (Cabinet member)

• Date	07 Jan 2016	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Transparency Register
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)

• Date	01 Oct 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Corporate Tax Transparency
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici
  Portfolio	Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
  Attending	Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	BUSINESSEUROPE

• Date	01 Oct 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Corporate Tax Transparency
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill
  Portfolio	Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Jonathan Hill (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Association of Tax Law Professors

• Date	01 Oct 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Corporate Tax Transparency
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President) Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	General Electric Company European Association of Tax Law Professors

• Date	23 Jul 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Corruption
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos
  Portfolio	Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship
  Attending	Polykarpos Adamidis (Cabinet member) Diane Schmitt (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 Jul 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Activities of TI on corruption/security
  Cabinet	Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini
  Portfolio	Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  Attending	Michael Curtis (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Jul 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Transparency International Cyprus activities
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos
  Portfolio	Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship
  Attending	Polykarpos Adamidis (Cabinet member)

• Date	17 Jun 2015	Location	European Commission –Brussels (Berlaymont)
  Subject	Corporate transparency and Action Plan on fair taxation of corporate income tax
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Tatyana Panova (Cabinet member) Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)

• Date	21 Apr 2015	Location	Belgium, Brussels, BERL
  Subject	Country by country reporting
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill
  Portfolio	Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Sebastian Kuck (Cabinet member)

• Date	18 Mar 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Trade, transparency and corruption
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström
  Portfolio	Trade
  Attending	Cécile Billaux (Cabinet member) Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet member)

• Date	18 Mar 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Shareholders Rights Directive and Corporate Social Responsibility
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
  Attending	Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet member)

• Date	17 Feb 2015	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	Meeting with Carl Dolan, Director of Transparency International, Brussels office
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva
  Portfolio	Budget & Human Resources
  Attending	Kristalina Georgieva (Vice-President)

• Date	09 Dec 2014	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Fight against corruption
  Cabinet	Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini
  Portfolio	Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  Attending	Fabrizia Panzetti (Cabinet member)

• Date	09 Dec 2014	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Transparency initiative, AML Directive, Treatment of NGOs/ Rule of Law
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Michelle Sutton (Cabinet member)