FoodDrinkEurope’s mission is to facilitate the development of an environment in which all European food and drink companies, whatever their size, can meet the needs of consumers and society, while competing effectively for sustainable growth.

Politico is a political journalism organization based in Arlington County Virginia, that covers the issues, ideas and personalities behind politics and policy in the United States and in the global arena. Its content is distributed via television, the Internet, newspaper and radio. Its coverage includes the U.S. Congress, lobbying, media and the Presidency.

Politico Europe recently published an Article entitled ‘Five easy ways to skirt the EU lobbying rules’. Frankly, a better contribution from Politico would have been to publish an article devoted to the prevention of loopholes or avoiding unintended consequences. There will always an ambiguity that can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the express or implied intent of rules. There will always be people who do not want to follow the rules .

1. Find the resources to lobby effectively: NGOs often assume that industries having recourse to consultants and expense accounts have limitless resources for lobbying. This is not true except if their markets are likely to be affected either positvely or negatively by a particular regulatory standard. It is difficult for more scattered interests only partially or indirectly affected or people campaigning for a more general interest to match the financial power of the narrow vested interests at stake.

In a 50-50 joint venture with German media group Axel Springer, POLITICO bought the weekly newspaper European Voice, which now becomes part of Politico.eu. The objective of the new media company is to develop and market the European business of POLITICO in the form of a website, newspaper, digital newsletters and conferences. POLITICO is building the largest newsroom in Brussels, in addition to bureaus in Berlin, London and Paris. POLITICO emerges on the European media scene with nearly 40 journalists representing 20 nationalities from four continents, speaking 14 languages.

Source: National Conference of Bar Examiners (USA) 2012- A Study of New Licensed Lawyers.

The following skills and abilities are listed here below because they are deemed to be equally important for New Public Policy Advocates.

Legislative advocacy carries the "pleading" into the legislative or public policy arena. The work is about developing proposed changes to existing law or establishing new law to address an issue, and implementing those changes through the drafting, introduction, presentation, defense, and debate of legislation

Capacity To

The Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) is the self-regulatory body for UK public affairs practitioners. As well as its traditional membership base of consultancies, APPC membership is now available to trade associations, in-house PA teams and individuals.

The APPC has three main roles:

Political Communication prepares for professional careers in government, politics, public affairs, public policy, and communication through the study of political and communication theory, research, and practice.

This List is NOT exhaustive and subject to scrutiny

Austria

1. Donau-Universität Krems (Krems, Austria) : Politische Kommunikation(Austria), PR und integrierte Kommunikation (Germany)

Belgium