Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
None declared
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
ACP/LDC Sugar Industries Group
EU Transparency Register
052002725608-03 First registered on 26 Jan 2017
Goals / Remit
The ACP/LDC Sugar Industries Group is formed of representatives of sugar industries supplying
ACP/LDC tariff free imports listed in Annex 1 to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2015/1550, plus South Africa.
The Terms of Reference for the ACP/LDC Sugar Industries Group are:
= To develop an effective and coherent single voice for all members of the Group;
= To coordinate Group views on EU market management methods and regulations and to be ready as requested to discuss these with the EC in concert with the Ambassadorial Group in Brussels;
= To be the focal point for organising as required the submission of information on supply data directly by members to the European Commission;
= To be the centralized point of contact for issues pertaining to Brexit in the UK;
= To support and advise the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) institutions in Brussels established to succeed the previously separate ACP Sugar Consultative Committee and LDC Ambassadorial arrangements;
= To explore and anticipate potential further changes in the EU sugar market structure after 2017 and to advise members on possible consequences and appropriate actions;
= To liaise as necessary with other relevant institutions, opinion formers and sugar sector interests (e.g. UK Govt departments, NGOs, Parliamentarians, Sugar Refiners, Beet producers and processors, etc.).Main EU files targeted
EU sugar policy
EU trade policy
EU customs policy
EU development policy
ACP and LDC issues
BrexitAddress
Head Office
3, London Bridge Street
5th floor
London SE1 9SG
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The Group includes an Executive Committee of around six persons which meets four times a year in person and as often as required by Skype and email.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Philip de Pass (Chairman)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Julian Price (Honorary Secretary)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
The Group is mandated to advise ACP and LDC ambassadors to the EU and the UK. See http://www.acp.int/
Member organisations
The ACP/LDC Sugar Industries Group potentially represents 31 countries’ sugar industries, however, of that number, 15 countries are active members of our Group.
These 15 countries are the most significant sugar producers in ACP and LDC countries and are therefore those who have the most at stake in preferential access to the EU27 and UK markets, and they include: Belize, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Our Group produces around 7 million tonnes in total each year, less than 4% of global sugar production. -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
None declared
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Other financial info
That funding for the activities of the ACP/LDC Sugar Industries Group is through the support of individual industries for their representatives. The Group does not incur any additional costs nor does it make a budget.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Representatives of the Group may, as observers, accompany and advise ACP ambassadors in meetings with the European Commission at up to Director-General level.
A representative of the Group participated in a Joint Meeting of the Sugar Expert Group and Civil Dialogue Group held on 11 October 2016 and further such meetings are anticipated.ACC
Representatives of the Group join ACP Ambassadors and diplomats at meetings of the Joint Technical Committee on Sugar at ACP House, which meetings are held with representatives of the European Commission, DG AGRI, TRADE, TAXUD and DEVCO.
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
At a meeting at the High Commission of Jamaica, London, on 1 December 2015, the leaders of the ACP/LDC sugar industries renewed the terms of reference for the Group. The ACP/LDC sugar industries agreed that the group would continue its work in support of the ACP Sugar Working Group and the ACP Sugar Sub-Committee in Brussels as well as being the centralized point of contact for issues pertaining to Brexit in the UK.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 12 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Exchange of views DG Agriculture and Rural Development Attending - Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General)