Overview
Lobbying Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Ahold Delhaize
EU Transparency Register
914893310703-33 First registered on 27 Feb 2013
Goals / Remit
Ahold Delhaize is an international retailing group, selling excellent food and non-food products both via shops and the internet in Europe, the United States and Indonesia.
Eat Well. Save Time. Live Better. Those three things guide Ahold Delhaize and its great local brands in what we do for our customers, associates and communities, every day.Main EU files targeted
Ahold Delhaize furthers its interests vis-à-vis the European institutions and other stakeholders. The company is an active member of EuroCommerce.
Ahold Delhaize keeps track of and engages regarding a broad set of European Commission (EC) policies, including policies relating to:
health and sustainability (for example the EC Farm-to-Fork strategy),
digitization (for example AI initiatives),
internal market (for example regarding territorial supply constraints and certain forms of protectionism impinging on the free movement of goods, services, capital and people),
trading practices in food supply chain
competition policy (for example revision of horizontal guidelines and competition rules to promote sustainability)
environmental policy (Green Deal, including CO2 emissions (scope 1,2 & 3)
apart from that, Ahold Delhaize is inter alia interested in social policies and tax policies.Address
Head Office
Provincialeweg, 11
Zaandam 1506 MA
NETHERLANDSEU Office
Avenue des Nerviens 85, third floor
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 08 Dec 2023
Name Start date End Date Mr Hendrik Jan VAN OOSTRUM 11 Jul 2019 11 Jul 2020 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
At EU level we are a member of EuroCommerce.
In our EU operating countries (Belgium. Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania) we are a member of the national retail associations.Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
200,000€ - 299,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
At Ahold Delhaize, we make healthy and sustainable choices easy. We believe that what's healthy and sustainable should be accessible and available to all. We aim to ensure that every choice we and our brands' customers make is the better choice.
Ahold Delhaize reports extensively on its health and sustainability activities, see: https://www.aholddelhaize.com/en/sustainability/Other activities
Ahold Delhaize participates in the creation of a code of conduct for responsible marketing and business practices in the realm of the Farm to Fork programme of the European Commission.
Meetings
Meetings
7 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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 27 Sep 2022 Location Brussels Subject Implementation of the European Green Deal, in particular circular economy and biodiversity policies Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Nov 2021 Location online Subject The product safety pledge and its future extension. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
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Date 04 Jun 2021 Location Online Subject VBER review Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Apr 2020 Location videoconference Subject Impact of covid on e-commerce ecosystem Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Pauline Weinzierl (Cabinet member)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 18 Jan 2017 Location Davos Subject Better Regulation Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
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Date 18 Jan 2017 Location Davos Subject Geoblocking, VAT, platforms Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Aare Järvan (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 14 Jun 2016 Location Brussels Subject Digital single market Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Bernardus Smulders (Cabinet member)
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