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Corporate Europe Observatory

Acronym: CEO

General Information

Identification Code: 5353162366-85
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Entity Form: Foundation under Dutch law (Stichting)
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 9/5/2008
Last Update: 5/8/2024
EP Accredited Number: 1

Mission & Interests

Goals: Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making. Corporate Europe Observatory is strongly committed to transparency about EU lobbying. CEO believes that the Transparency Register fails basic transparency standards and does not yet live up to its name. We support a legally-binding register, stronger safeguards against inaccurate reporting, and the publication of the names of all individual interest representatives. We regret that the 2021 register revamp no longer requires NGOs and think tanks to submit a figure for an annual lobby spend. We will continue to provide such a figure in the notes below. We also regret that the names of individual lobbyists can no longer be provided.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Banking and financial services
  • Borders and security
  • Budget
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Digital economy and society
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Food safety
  • Foreign affairs and security policy
  • Institutional affairs
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Migration and asylum
  • Public health
  • Research and innovation
  • Single market
  • Taxation
  • Trade
  • Trans-European Networks
  • Transport
Levels of Interest:
  • european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: - The Commission work programmes: 2023, 2024 - Implementation of EU Transparency Register & ethics rules for Commissioners, EU officials, and MEPs - Transparency of covert interference by third countries and the 'Defence of Democracy package'  - Regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 - EU Farm to Fork files, in particular pesticide legislation - Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability & its implementation, including via REACH revision including Essential Use, Export ban on banned substances, and proposed restriction on universal Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) - The Better Regulation agenda and Regulatory Scrutiny Board - EU position at climate negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Projects of Common Interest - Important Projects of Common European Interest - Global Gateway - European Green Deal - Fit for 55 - 30 Nov 2022 Proposal for a Regulation on an EU certification for carbon removals - 6 February 2024 EU Industrial Carbon Management Strategy - 6 February 2024 Communication on a 2040 Climate Target - February 2023 A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age - March 2023 Net Zero Industry Act - Implementation of the decarbonised gases and hydrogen package - Communication on the European Hydrogen Bank - RePower EU Plan, (including EU external energy engagement in a changing world) - EU Energy Platform and Industry Advisory Group - 2024-2029 EU strategic agenda - 2022/0051(COD) Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 - Electricity Market Design - EU competitiveness beyond 2030 & 30 years single market - The enforcement mechanisms related to the Single Market: the Commission’s complaint mechanism, the notification procedure in the field of technical regulation and the services notification procedure, the 2020 Proportionality Test Directive - Single Market reform - The Letta and Draghi reports - Vade-Mecum on public procurement in the European Commission - Strategy for financing the transition to a sustainable economy - European Semester & related procedures - Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC COM/2020/825 - Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act) COM/2020/842 - Revision of the Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market ('Directive on electronic commerce') - Artificial Intelligence Act - Proposal to improve the working conditions of people working through digital labour platforms - EU coronavirus vaccine strategy, contracts, and roll-out, and the proposal for a TRIPS-waiver of Covid related therapeutics
Communication Activities: Information on our events, campaigns, and publications is available on our website: http://corporateeurope.org/
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Anti-corruption

Head Office

Address: Rue d'Edimbourg, 26
Post Code: 1050
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office

Address: Rue d'Edimbourg, 26
Post Code: 1050
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: Corporate Europe Observatory’s expenses for interest representation activities in 2023 were €504,369. It is very important that think tanks & NGOs are required to declare their lobby spending and we regret that the 2021-22 register revamp no longer requires this. As mentioned above, since November 2021 we declare all campaign and communications staff as working 50% of their working time on activities aimed at directly or indirectly influencing the EU institutions. This reflects our objectives and work. In 2023 our grants income was received from these funders: - Isvara Foundation, €150,000 - Adessium foundation, €146,267 - Open society foundation, €129,570 - Polden Puckham Charity Fund, €112,522 - Energy Transition Fund, €104,543 - Luminate / RESET, €70,166 - Olin gGmbH, €50,000 - Oak Foundation, €47,992 - European Climate Foundation, €41,756 - Fondation CL Mayer pour le Progress de l'Homme, €40,000 - Civitates, €30,000 - Global GreenGrants Foundation, €29,886 - Tides, €28,011 - Grassroots Foundation, €15,000 - Meliore Foundation, €15,000 - Combined Climate Funders, €12,000 - CS Marin, €11,360 Total: €1,034,073 In addition, we received these large contributions / donations in 2023 worth over €10,000: Ms Karde-Marie Wirtz, €20,000 Our full accounts for 2008-2023 are available here: https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/CEO%202008-2023%20profits%20and%20losses.pdf

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 2
Members25 Percent: 5
Members50 Percent: 8
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 15
Members F T E: 5.449999809265137
Info Members: Since November 2021, we declare all campaign and external communication staff as working 50% on activities aimed at directly and indirectly influencing the EU institutions. We think this reflects the objectives and work that CEO staff do including producing research, holding events, and communicating about the corporate influence upon the EU institutions. Not all 15 persons mentioned above worked for CEO for the full year of 2023, nor did they all work full-time, and as mentioned above, we consider they worked 50% of their working time on EU influencing. All figures have been rounded up. We consider that if other registrants, in particular corporations, trade associations, consultancies, and law firms, took a similar approach and fully declared staff and budget spent directly and indirectly influencing the institutions, the amounts declared would substantially increase.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: We do not have members
Organisation Members: - Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) www.alter-eu.org - The Treaty Alliance http://www.treatymovement.com/ - Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B) www.s2bnetwork.org - European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) www.corporatejustice.org - Climate Justice Now! (CJN!) https://climatejusticenow.org/ - Better Regulation Watchdog (BRW) www.betterregwatch.eu/ - European Network of Corporate Observatories https://corpwatchers.eu/ - Change Finance coalition http://www.changefinance.org/ - Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation https://citizens4pesticidereform.eu/ - Rights for people, rules for corporations campaign https://stopisds.org/ - Beyond Gas Network https://www.rosalux.eu/metanavigation/multimedia/time-to-go-beyond-gas/ - Climate Justice Action https://climatejusticeaction.net/en/ - Fossil Free Politics coalition https://fossilfreepolitics.org/ - No Patents on Seeds https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/start - European Alliance for Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines https://medicinesalliance.eu/ - Make Big Polluters Pay https://makebigpolluterspay.org/ - Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice https://demandclimatejustice.org/ - Liability Roadmap https://liabilityroadmap.org/ - People vs. Big Tech https://peoplevsbig.tech/ - EU Food Policy Coalition https://foodpolicycoalition.eu/ - Justice is Everybody's Business Coalition https://justice-business.org/ - Real Zero Europe Coalition https://www.realsolutions-not-netzero.org/ - Kick Big Polluters Out coalition https://kickbigpollutersout.org/ - Ban PFAS manifesto https://banpfasmanifesto.org/en/ - Stop Glyphosate https://stopglyphosate.eu/ - SET-Network (Social-Ecological think-tanks network) - European Environmental Bureau: https://eeb.org/