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CEE Bankwatch Network

Acronym: BWN

General Information

Identification Code: 93834493808-49
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: Civic organization
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 6/30/2010
Last Update: 3/21/2024
EP Accredited Number: 1

Mission & Interests

Goals: CEE Bankwatch Network is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with member organisations currently from 12 countries across the central and eastern European region. We monitor the activities of the international financial institutions (IFIs) which operate in the region and the spending of European Regional Development and Cohesion Funds in CEE, and propose constructive alternatives to IFI and EU policies and projects in the region. Bankwatch is working to prevent negative environmental and social impacts of IFI or EU financed projects, and promotes public participation and access to information about IFI activities and European cohesion policy across our region. Our goals: · To create public awareness about the activities of international financial institutions (IFIs) and EU funds in central and eastern European countries and its social and environmental impacts. · To promote public participation in the decision making process on the public investments
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Budget
  • Climate action
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Energy
  • Enlargement
  • Environment
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • External relations
  • International co-operation and development
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Regional policy
  • Research and innovation
  • Trans-European Networks
  • Transport
  • Youth
Levels of Interest:
  • european
  • national
  • global
  • sub-national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: We monitor the activities of the international financial institutions (IFIs) which operate in the region and the spending of European Regional Development and Cohesion Funds in CEE, and propose constructive alternatives to IFI and EU policies and projects in the region. Bankwatch is working to prevent negative environmental and social impacts of IFI or EU financed projects, and promotes public participation and access to information about IFI activities and European cohesion policy across our region. At EU level, Bankwatch is active on the various EU funding schemes that relate to the energy and environmental transition, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the cohesion policy funds (such as the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund regulation and the Just Transition Fund), the Modernisation Fund, the InvestEU programme, the Connecting Europe Facility, Western Balkans Investment Framework and Ukraine Reconstruction Facility. Bankwatch works with EU institutions regarding the implementation of recovery and resilience plans, the programming of the EU funds, as well as the update of national strategies (such as the National Energy and Climate Plans) by Member States and their assessment by the European Commission. In its work relating to the EIB, Bankwatch influences and interacts with EU institutions regarding the various policy guidelines of the Bank such as the revision of climate energy and transport policies. Bankwatch aims to influence policy files such as the Fit for 55 package (in particular the Renewable Energy Directive, Energy Efficiency Directive, Social Climate Fund, Emission Trading Scheme, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) and the Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) and Projects of Common Interest (PCIs) list. Other pieces of legislation stemming from the European Green Deal initiative, such as the Biodiversity strategy, the Forestry strategy, the renovation wave and the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) are also of interest for Bankwatch and a subject on which it will interact with EU institutions. Bankwatch works also on the transposition, implementation and monitoring of various files such as the Energy Union Governance Regulation, the Air Quality Directive, the National Emission Ceiling Directive, Industrial Emissions Directive and Large Combustion Plants Directive, also in relation to the Energy Community Treaty, the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment and the Aarhus Convention and other EU environmental legislation (Birds and Habitats Directives, Water Framework Directive).
Communication Activities: Bankwatch regularly publishes results of its monitoring activities, as well as policy briefings developped to inform the various processes.
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: Dialogue with CPR partners 2021-2027 - Group of experts on the funds established by Regulation (EU) No 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council#E03802#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3802 #MEMBER #C#Civil societyCommission's expert group Greening the European Semester / Environmental Implementation Review#E02987#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2987 #OBSERVER #C#Civil societyCommission's expert group on the European Network of Environmental Authorities - Managing Authorities for the Cohesion Policy#E00510#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=510 #OBSERVER #C#Civil society
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Heřmanova 1088/8
Post Code: 170 00
City: Prague 7
Country: CZECH REPUBLIC
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EU Office

Address: Rue d'Edimbourg 26
City: Bruxelles
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: More details on our income sources in 2022 is available in our annual report:https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2022-Bankwatch-Annual-Report.pdf

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 2
Members50 Percent: 8
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 10
Members F T E: 4.5

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: Bulgaria: For the Earth! (Za Zemiata!) www.zazemiata.org(1), Croatia: Green Action, http://zelena-akcija.hr/(1), Czech Republic: Centre for Transport and Energy (CDE) www.cde.ecn.cz(1), Czech Republic: Hnuti DUHA www.hnutiduha.cz(1), Estonia: Estonian Green Movement-FoE (ERL) www.roheline.ee(1), Georgia: Green Alternative www.greenalt.org(1), Hungary: National Society of Conservationists - Friends of the Earth H(1), Latvia:Green Liberty https://www.zalabriviba.lv/en/(1), Macedonia: Eco - sense www.ekosvest.com.mk/home_eng.html(1), Poland: Polish Green Network www.zielonasiec.pl(1), Slovak Republic: Friends of the Earth - www.priateliazeme.sk/cepa(1), Ukraine: National Ecological Centre of Ukraine (NECU) www.necu.org.ua(1), Ecoaction to Kyiv, https://en.ecoaction.org.ua/ (1) Russia: Sakhalin Environment Watch, http://www.sakhalin.environment.ru(1), Lituania: Atgaja(1)
Organisation Members: GREEN 10. www.green10.org The Green 10 are ten of the largest European environmental organisations/networks. They coordinate joint responses and recommendations to EU decision makers. Membership of the Green 10 alone is more than 20 million people. Counter Balance www.counterbalance-eib.org/ Counter Balance is a European coalition of development and environmental non-governmental organisations, formed in 2007 to specifically challenge the European Investment Bank. Counter Balance's mission is to make the EIB an open and progressive institution delivering on EU development goals and promoting sustainable development to empower people affected by its work. Counter Balance includes members from: · Central and Eastern Europe: CEE Bankwatch Network · France: les Amis de la Terre · Germany: urgewald and WEED · Italy: Re:Common · Netherlands: BothEnds · United Kingdom: Bretton Woods Project Euro-IFIs