2023 EU Transparency Register - Meta-organizations

For my Research Habilitation Dissertation, I extracted all information from the EU transparency Register

There were 12,435 registered organizations as of January 2023 (Source: Transparency Register). On this basis, I attempted to distinguish between meta-organizations and non-meta-organizations. One should keep in mind that this database only concerns organizations and individuals that seek to lobby EU institutions. There are much more meta-organizations worldwide, and many are not concerned with lobbying the EU.

I downloaded and organized the database. I added a year column and edited the database in order to identify meta-organizations. There are 13 different categories of organizations or individuals that can be registered: 1) “Academic institutions”, 2) “Associations and networks of public authorities”, 3) “Companies & groups”, 4), “Entities, offices or networks established by third countries”, 5) “Law firms”, 6) “Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar”, 7) “Organisations representing churches and religious communities”, 8) “Other organisations, public or mixed entities”, 9) “Professional consultancies”, 10) “Self-employed individuals”, 11) “Think tanks and research institutions”, 12) “Trade and business associations”, 13) “Trade unions and professional associations”. 

Sheet 1 shows the different tables I created for my habilitation.