European Public Affairs consultants Association

EPACA is organisation set up in January 2005 to resist regulation of lobbyists in Europe. Its members are amongst the most powerful lobbying consultancies in Europe. It is co-ordinated by a little known lobbying company called Houston Consulting Europe run by a former UK diplomat. The fact that it currently (March 2005)has no website indicates that it is a paper 'Association' with one aim in mind: To resist regulation of lobbyists.

On March 16, 2005, EPACA responded to the enquiries of Corporate Europe Observatory, a public interest group, monitoring corporate lobbying with a letter in which it refused to provide details of its operations.

Update: October 10 2005. EPACA now has a website (www.epaca.org) registered on the 26 April 2005. Full registration details from www.whois.net below. The site is registered to Jeremy Miller a 'freelance corporate and political consultant, writer and website developer', according to his website millerassoc.co.uk. The website discloses that EPACA now has an additional six members since its launch in March these are mostly smaller players in the lobbying market. EPACA continues to represent mainly the big lobbying groups most of which are owned by the big three communications Trans National Corporations WPP, Interpublic and Omnicom. New members include: Athenora Consulting, EACON - European Affairs Consulting Group, Kern European Affairs, Kreab AB, Policy Action and Pristop. Kreab is perhaps the most significatn, being aone of the largest Nordic lobbying firm, orginating in Denmark. Interestingly Gavin Anderson and company (Sourcewatch profile) are no longer listed as members.

Members at 01.03.05 were :

APCO Europe

BEE - Business Environment Europe S.A

Blueprint Partners sprl

Burson-Marsteller/BKSH

Cabinet Stewart

Central Lobby Consultants Ltd

Communication & Institutions SA

DLA Upstream

Eamonn Bates Europe Public Affairs

Edelman Public Relations Worldwide SA

EuroRSCG C&O

Eurofacts OY

Europe Analytica

European Public Policy Advisers

Fleishmann-Hillard

Gavin Anderson

Grayling Political Strategy

Hill and Knowlton

Houston Consulting Europe

Interel EPA

Lefebvre Hanneman Consultancy

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Priming Consulting

SPEM - Komunikacijska Skupina

TGG and Partners

Weber Shandwick Adamson

Registration details for the EPACA website:

Domain ID:D106170161-LROR

Domain Name:EPACA.ORG

Created On:26-Apr-2005 23:06:06 UTCLast

Updated On:26-Jun-2005 04:01:00 UTC

Expiration Date:26-Apr-2010 23:06:06 TC

Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)

Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED

Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED

Registrant ID:tu4005jlAsULi1s9

Registrant Name:Jeremy Miller

Registrant Organization:EPACA

Registrant Street1:3 Melody Road

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Registrant City:Wandsworth

Registrant State/Province:London

Registrant Postal Code:SW182QW

Registrant Country:GB

Registrant Phone:+44.2088743650

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Registrant Email:jeremy_miller@btconnect.com