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General Information

Identification Code: 6314918394-16
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: Registered non-profit organisation (in Germany)
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 9/15/2008
Last Update: 12/18/2023
EP Accredited Number: 2

Mission & Interests

Goals: LobbyControl promotes transparency and a vivid democracy. We campaign for more transparency and a legal, institutional and societal framework that limits the improper influence of lobbyists on both politics and the public at large. Our organisation moreover works to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups on EU policy-making. LobbyControl was founded in 2005. We are committed to transparency about EU interest representation. We have been campaigning for this register since 2005 and have witnessed progress. Still the register fails to provide full EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. For example, all organisations in the register should be asked to provide a lobby budget.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Banking and financial services
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Communication
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Digital economy and society
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Food safety
  • Institutional affairs
  • Single market
  • Taxation
  • Trade
  • Transport
Levels of Interest:
  • european
  • national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: - Ethical Reforms after the @Qatargate Scandal in the EP - Defence of Democracy Package - Directive on Combating Corruption - Implementation of the Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory Transparency Register of all three institutions - Ethics Committee for all three institutions - Implementation of Digital Services Act (DSA)/Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the lobbying around it - Green New Deal, gas package and the lobbying around it - lack of legislative and lobbying transparency in the work of the Council. We looked at Council initiatives and decisions on strengthening legislative transparency as well as on corporate sponsorship of Presidencies - Regulatory Scrutiny Board - Trade policy - LobbyControl is together with the NGO Corporate Europe Observatory Operator of the Lobbyfacts.eu platform
Communication Activities: 2023: - Online-Petition: Gesetzgebung darf keine Geheimsache sein https://www.lobbycontrol.de/lobbyismus-in-der-eu/gesetzgebung-darf-keine-geheimsache-sein-2-105162/ - press conference refering to the reactions of the Parliament to Qatargate - open letter together with other NGOs regarding the planned foreign agents law 2022: - Letter to Vera Jourova on the implementation flaws of the new transparency register https://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/220202%20letter%20transparency%20register%20implementation_0.pdf - legal opinion on the Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act - Letter to the EU Parliament about necessary consequences following from the Kaili scandal together with the ALTER-EU network https://www.alter-eu.org/documents/2022/12/alter-eu-demands-in-reaction-to-the-kaili-scandal 2021 - Study: The firepower of the Big tech lobby https://www.lobbycontrol.de/2021/08/neue-studie-zur-lobbymacht-von-big-tech/ - research and blogposts about the power of Big Tech and the lobbying around DSA and DMA - Letter to Thierry Breton and Margrethe Vestager warning of the aggressive and intransparent lobbying by Big Tech Companies on the Digital Services Act/Digital Markets Act 2020 - blogposts and articles about Germany's blocking of the EU proposal on the disclosure of Income Tax Information of transnational corporations - Report together with Corporate Europe Observatory: Tainted Love - Corporate Lobbying and the upcoming German EU Presidency
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Anti-corruption

Head Office

Address: Am Justizzentrum 7
Post Code: 50939
City: Köln
Country: GERMANY
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EU Office

Address: Am Justizzentrum 7
Post Code: 50939
City: Köln
Country: GERMANY
Phone: [object Object]

Financial Data

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Complementary Information: LobbyControl regrets that non-commercial organisations don't have to give a Lobbybudget anymore. This leads to a lack of comparability of the data. The public will misunderstand this and compare lobbybudgets and general budgets. We are discussing this temporarily with the EU-Institutions. Meanwhile we give our lobbybudget voluntarily here: LobbyControl's EU lobby budget in 2022 was: € 86.000 (calculated from the previously valid factors such as personnel costs, rent, material costs,...).

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 4
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 1
Members: 6
Members F T E: 1.649999976158142
Info Members: Since the transparency register started, we and other transparency organisations have disclosed the names of our lobbyists here - we see this is as an important part of lobbying transparency. This is not allowed anymore since a new version of the register is being implemented. We object to this as it is a step back in lobbying transparency. All staff members lobbying for LobbyControl are registered by name in the German Transparency Register: https://www.lobbyregister.bundestag.de/suche/R000176/7201?backUrl=%2Fsuche%3Fq%3DLobbyControl%26page%3D1%26pageSize%3D10%26sort%3DREGISTRATION_DESC 3 of them have been lobbying the EU-Institutions. For more information you can turn to Lobbycontrol directly.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: LobbyControl hat nur natürliche Personen als Mitglieder.
Organisation Members: LobbyControl is a member of - the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU, www.alter-eu.org), - ENCO network - German network for Corporate Accountability (CorA, www.cora-netz.de), - Allianz „Rechtssicherheit für politische Willensbildung“ - LobbyControl is operator of the EU data portal "Lobbyfacts" (together with Corporate Europe Observatory)