Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Furniture Industries Confederation (EFIC)
EU Transparency Register
95910795422-52 First registered on 04 Mar 2011
Goals / Remit
Among its main activities, EFIC
• duly represents European furniture manufacturers within the European Institutions such as the EU Commission, the European Parliament and the Council;
• defends the common interests of its members and promotes strategies aimed at ensuring right conditions for the furniture market in EU policies and priorities;
• monitors EU legislation and new legislative initiatives, regularly updating its members and participating to EU public and stakeholders` consultations;
• provides a good and permanent relationship and an exchange platform between the national and European trade organizations for common projects, interests and ideas;
• studies all the relevant EU trade, technical, economic, social, fiscal problems and more generally all questions of interest to the development of the industries represented;
• collects, analyses and distributes the corresponding documentation;
• takes part in projects of common interest to the members.Main EU files targeted
- Environment and Circular Economy (European Green Deal, Circular Economy Action Plan, Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Green Claims, Empowering consumers to the green transition, EU Ecolabel, GPP criteria, Deforestation Regulation, Forest-based industries related policies and others).
- Internal market (Industrial strategy, Product Safety legislation, Machinery Regulation, standardisation).
- International Trade (FTA negotiations, Market Access cases).
- Social Dialogue (Industry Policy, Skills Agenda, European Year of Skills, Health & Safety agenda, Green Deal and Circular Economy)
- Intellectual Property and Industrial Design legislationAddress
Head Office
Rue Jacques de Lalaing 4
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Jacques de Lalaing 4
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 26 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Eniko Gabriella Kemendi 09 Oct 2024 08 Oct 2025 Gabriella KEMENDI 11 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Constance ROSSI 11 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Camilla SMORRA 13 Sep 2022 05 Jun 2023 Gabriella KEMENDI 09 Sep 2022 08 Sep 2023 Ms Giorgia MURGIA 19 Nov 2019 01 Dec 2020 Gabriella KEMENDI 25 Oct 2019 24 Oct 2020 Ms Giorgia MURGIA 06 Sep 2018 31 Aug 2019 Ms Roberta DESSI 23 Aug 2018 19 Jul 2019 Manfredi Maria MARCHESE 24 Jan 2018 23 Aug 2018 Manfredi Maria MARCHESE 05 Oct 2017 06 Jan 2018 Ms Roberta DESSI 08 Sep 2017 23 Aug 2018 Manfredi Maria MARCHESE 28 Apr 2017 27 Sep 2017 Ms Naima Koubaa 30 Sep 2016 01 Apr 2017 Ms Roberta DESSI 13 Sep 2016 08 Sep 2017 Ms Roberta DESSI 10 Sep 2015 08 Sep 2016 Ms Roberta DESSI 16 Sep 2014 10 Sep 2015 Ms Camilla Sinclair RAVAZZOLO 04 May 2013 03 May 2014 Mrs Camilla Sinclair RAVAZZOLO 09 Feb 2012 01 Mar 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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Project 101102389 — FurnCIRCLE 18,335€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant 2023-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000157705 - FLIER 6,320€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
European Union Eco-labelling Board#E00374#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=374 #Observer #C#Industry#Expert Group on Forest-based Industries and Sectorally Related Issues#E01356#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=1356 #Member #C#Industry#Commission Expert Group on Machinery#E03676#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3676 #Member #C#Industry#Expert Group on the exchange of information on Best Available Techniques related to industrial emissions (IED Article 13 Forum)#E02611#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2611 #Member #C#Industry#Commission Expert Group/Multi-Stakeholder Platform on Protecting and Restoring the World’s Forests, including the EU Timber Regulation and the FLEGT Regulation#E03282#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3282 #Member #C#Industry, SMEs#HIGH-LEVEL FORUM ON EUROPEAN STANDARDISATION#E03874#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3874 #Member #C#Industry, SMEs#SHERPA sub-group of the group of experts ‘High-Level Forum on European Standardisation’
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
EFIC piorities: https://www.efic.eu/our-priorities
EFIC position papers: https://www.efic.eu/position-papers
EFIC news: https://www.efic.eu/newsOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 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 04 Jun 2024 Location Videoconference Subject Discussion on implementation of the EU Deforestation regulation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Joan Canton (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Sep 2021 Location Video-conference Subject Upcoming Russian export ban on logs Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Sofja Ribkina (Cabinet member)
- Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet member)
- Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists