Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA)
EU Transparency Register
8828523562-52 First registered on 28 Oct 2008
Goals / Remit
The European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA) is an association of public affairs consultancies working with EU institutions.
It was launched at a General Assembly on 28 January 2005, following a process of consultation among all signatories of a professional Code of Conduct. This Code has been maintained by these consultancies for 15 years, and is the basis for all such codes in the EU affairs marketplace.
The main objective of EPACA is to advocate for more and better transparency regulations and to develop a relationship of trust between interest representatives, policy-makers and the general public. EPACA also provide trainings to its members in order to improve professional skills. EPACA's members represent a high proportion of the professional Public Affairs services providers in the EU market place.Main EU files targeted
Since its creation, with the implementation of its Code of Conduct supported by a Professional Practice Panel, EPACA has been an active champion of transparency. We focus on initiatives and legislative files which aim to enhance transparency and integrity in EU policymaking processes.
More specifically:
- Implementation of the IIA on on a mandatory Transparency Register
- IIA on an Independent Ethics Body
- Annual Transparency Register Implementing Guidelines review
- Defence of Democracy Package - Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing harmonised requirements in the internal market on transparency of interest representation carried out on behalf of third countries and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937
- REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE
COUNCIL on the transparency and targeting of political advertisingAddress
Head Office
Rue de la Loi 38
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue de la Loi 38
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
EPACA does not have any paid staff members, all activities are undertaken by the members. The member company who holds the Chairmanship run the secretariat which focuses on administrative tasks.
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
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount political intelligence 50,000€ - 99,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name political intelligence Closed 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
We organize events aimed at bringing together different stakeholders within the EU policymaking arena to discuss and share views on issues concerning lobby transparency and integrity.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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 08 Jun 2023 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Impact of the measure of removing details of desk officers, policy assistants and other individuals working at the institution from the online database ‘EU Whoiswho’ DG Secretariat-General Attending - Ilze Juhansone (Secretary-General)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 03 Mar 2020 Location Brussels Subject Energy Files Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson Portfolio Energy Attending - Helena Hinto (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jan 2015 Location Berlaymont - Brussels - Belgium Subject Transparency 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)