Òmnium Cultural
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
1 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & 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.
EU Legislative Interests
- 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.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Òmnium Cultural is a member of the ELEN (European Language Equality Network) and the ECF (European Civic Forum).
Organisation Members
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).
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.