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The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

NGO or non-profit · Human rights & humanitarian · HQ: United States · Transparency Register entry

As of 8 October 2026, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children appears in 4 declared MEP meetings (4 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

4
declared meetings
with current MEPs
4
MEPs met
–
lobbying spend
none reported in the Register
0.8
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“The mission of The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization.”

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“NCMEC works with families, victims, private industry, law enforcement, and the public, both in the United States and around the world, to assist with preventing child abductions, recovering missing children, and providing services to deter and combat child sexual exploitation.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 4 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party250%
Socialists & Democrats250%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2021–2023. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (3 in 2023).

2021
1
2022
0
2023
3

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Heléne Fritzon
1 meeting · S&D
Javier Zarzalejos
1 meeting · EPP
Birgit Sippel
1 meeting · S&D
Lena Düpont
1 meeting · EPP

The 4 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
16 May 2023Birgit SippelLIBE Mission
7 Feb 2023Javier ZarzalejosMeeting with NCMEC, to discuss the proposal on preventing and combating child sexual abuse online
7 Feb 2023Heléne FritzonMöte med NCMEC
18 Mar 2021Lena DüpontChild protection

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