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WeMove Europe gGmbH

WeMove Europe

The non-profit “We Move Europe gGmbH” – Society for EU-wide education, Democracy, international understanding and Environmental protection – promotes education, democratic principles, European political discourse for, and by, European citizens, and fosters international understanding and action within the European community on matters such as the climate crisis.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders) and Friends of Europe and European Coalition for Corporate Justice

27 Jan 2021 · Substainable Corporate Governance

Response to Technical specifications for online collection systems on the citizens' initiative

5 Sept 2019

This consultation should be extended. It has been open for less than a month in the summer time, when many ECI activists and NGO staff are away on holiday. The draft text refers to EDSP and ENSIA reports with blank references. It therefore wasn’t possible to provide complete comments on the text because these reports haven't been shared during the consultation. Moreover, the Commission is organising a meeting with key stakeholders on Monday, only after the today's deadline of 5 September. In order to receive the most responses from experts, online campaigners, technologists and ECI organisers to reply, the Commission should increase the duration of this consultation until the end of September. I was the EU Coordinator of the successful ECI "Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides" in 2017, which utilised OpenECI, an individual online collection system (iOCS). Based on my experience with the ECI and OpenECI, I would recommend changing the following in the draft regulation: - 2a) To minimise the undue administrative burden, the ECI organisers should be able to use the same documentation for their certification as defined by the previous regulation 1179/2011(3). - 7) Remove "including the possible need for a data protection impact assessment" and other references to GDPR further in the regulation, as GDPR is already defined and covered by Regulation (EU) 2016/679. Therefore, there is no need to duplicate here. - 4.1.2 The article implies that each country might have different certification processes and requirements. The new regulation must ensure that every country enforces common demands and requests, like 1179/2011. I also suggest to include new articles to the regulation: - The Commission should set up a committee piloting the implementation of the new Online Collection System and ensure diverse participants from civil society, experienced online IT specialists, campaigners, and ECI organisers. - The OCS system must allow “embeddability” (so citizens can sign ECIs from within a separate website) so that ECI organisers can benefit from the trust and branding of their own campaign website or those of their partners. - The OCS should allow the system to be prefilled if the visitor is known (with the possibility to change any field), for example, if the name of the citizen signing is already known by the campaign. This makes it easier and faster to sign. - The regulation foresees the option to collect emails. The OCS should be able to export and provide a secure API to let the ECI organisers add these contact data to their existing mailing system. - To increase trust and security in the system and as the previous regulation, the OCS system should be developed under an opensource license. - All the documentation, including minutes of the meetings and development planning, should be shared by the European Commission in a timely fashion.
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Meeting with Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner) and

23 Jan 2018 · WeMove.eu ont remis une pétition de 100.000 signatures en faveur de la CCCTB

Meeting with Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

3 Feb 2017 · CETA, Multilateral Investment Court