Òmnium Cultural
Acronym: ÒC
General Information
Identification Code: 974134437992-44
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Entity Form: Association
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 4/30/2020
Last Update: 10/26/2023
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: 1) Promotion of the Catalan language and culture, in particular, and promotion and support for all European minority languages.
2) Promotion of the Catalan educational model, which contributes to building a more cohesive, democratic and free society.
3) Promotion of social cohesion in Catalonia so that no person suffers discrimination based on origin, language, sex, secual orientation, race or socioeconomic differences.
4) Defense of Human and Political and Civil Rights, with special focus on freedom of expression, freedom of information, freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, the right to a fair trial and the right to protest.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Culture
- Culture and media
- Education and training
- Institutional affairs
- Justice and fundamental rights
Levels of Interest:
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: - The convention ETS No.148 called “European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages”, adopted as a convention on 25 June 1992 by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/148
- Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on the citizens’ initiative
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/c6689d9a-0171-4a24-91f5-549705cdb21c/language-en
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:FULL#d1e1384-1-1
- “Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on a Work Plan for Culture (2015-2018)” (2014/C 463/02) adopted by the Council of the European Union on 23 December 2014 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/AUTO/?uri=CELEX:52014XG1223(02)&qid=1588751889390&rid=1
- Communication from the Commission - COM(2018) 267 final - A New European Agenda for Culture
https://ec.europa.eu/culture/sites/culture/files/commission_communication_-_a_new_european_agenda_for_culture_2018.pdf
- Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council - Exchanging and Protecting Personal Data in a Globalised World COM/2017/07 final
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2017%3A7%3AFIN
Communication Activities: - Rule of Law first Anual report by the Comission: we updated a thourough set of answers on the situation of the Judiciary in Spain
- Consultation on the effective application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU - as an NGO interested in human rights, we also answered this consultation.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Carrer Diputació, 276, pral
Post Code: 08009
City: Barcelona
Country: SPAIN
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EU Office
Address: Carrer Diputació, 276, pral
Post Code: 08009
City: Barcelona
Country: SPAIN
Phone: [object Object]
Financial Data
New Organisation: false
Closed Year: [object Object]
Current Year: [object Object]
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.5
Info Members: We have two people working in the International Relations arena, mostly working in other institutions (UN, CoE), but now we are redirecting our effords towards the EU institutions, and they are both devoting between a half and one quarter of the day in:
- Tracking and detecting relevant policies in our fields of interest
- Contacting MPs in order to ask them to support - propose changes in some policies
- Giving our stakeholder's view in consultations
- Organizing events with EU officials
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: We are afilliated, in the Federació Llull federation, which is a second-level union with three members that defend Catalan language in different regions: Òmnium Cultural (Catalonia), Acció Cultural del País Valencià (Valencia region) and Obra Cultural Balear (Balearic Islands).
Organisation Members: Òmnium Cultural is a member of the ELEN (European Language Equality Network) and the ECF (European Civic Forum).