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Overview
Lobbying Costs
350,000€
Financial year: Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5 Fte (11)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)
EU Transparency Register
625976815556-92 First registered on 13 Jan 2015
Goals / Remit
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a UK Non-departmental Public Body funded by a statutory levy paid by UK farmers, growers and others in the supply chain and managed as an independent organisation (independent of both commercial industry and of Government).
AHDB’s purpose is to equip levy payers with independent, evidence-based information and tools to grow and become more competitive and sustainable. AHDB supports six sectors covering about 75% of total agricultural output in the UK: commercial horticulture, potatoes, cereals and oilseeds, milk, pig meat, beef and lamb.
The services delivered by AHDB include farm-level knowledge transfer programmes, market information, export market development work and domestic marketing activity.Main EU files targeted
The AHDB Brussels office monitors the following policies:
Common Agricultural Policy simplification
Animal and Plant health
Proposals for Directives on cloning of farm animals
State Aid
Promotion of agricultural products
TSE Regulation
Veterinary medicines and medicated feed
Climate and energy framework and air quality proposals
Food labelling
Animal welfare Action Plan
Trade negotiations
Antimicrobial resistance
AHDB submitted a paper on transparency in the EU agricultural markets, for the Agricultural Markets Task Force.
AHDB also participated to the consultation on EU school food schemes.Address
Head Office
Stoneleigh Park, AHDB
Kenilworth CV8 2TL
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Rue de Trêves 61
Brussels 1040
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People
Total lobbyists declared
11
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 25% 8 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The Brussels office staff is working full time on EU policies.
Staff from the market intelligence, R&D and market development work on EU policies on ad hoc basis.Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Kathy Roussel (Head of AHDB Brussels Office)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Jane King (CEO)
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Categories
Category
VI - Organisations representing local, regional and municipal authorities, other public or mixed entities, etc.
Subcategory
Other public or mixed entities, created by law whose purpose is to act in the public interest
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Networking
Affiliation
International Meat Secretariat.
Liaison and joint work programmes with other levy boards in EU Member States.
Comite de Liaison des organismes de promotion agricole et alimentaire.
North-western European Potato Growers Foundation
Europatat
EucolaitMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
350,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
230,000 € (Source: During the latest closed financial year, AHDB received grants from the Horizon 2020 programme (€213,000) and from the Interreg programme (€17,000) for the delivery of several projects.)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
AHDB participates in several EU funded projects, mainly in the field of research, including:
- Fertinnowa: https://www.fertinnowa.com/project/
- Euro Dairy: https://eurodairy.eu/
- iSage: http://www.isage.eu/
- EU Pig: https://www.eupig.eu/
- Dairy-4-Future: https://dairy4future.eu/
AHDB also runs an EU promotional campaign: https://ec.europa.eu/chafea/agri/campaigns/eu-lamb-campaign
The AHDB Brussels office has co-organised with other European farmers' associations two Brexit related seminars, having place in Brussels (26/04/2018) and London (25/10/2018), respectively.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 23 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Business discussion Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
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