Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
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 and the United States.
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 of EC, but also Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act),
internal market (for example study of EC on territorial supply constraints),
trading practices in food supply chain (for example implementation of EU trading practices legislation in Member States),
competition policy (for example revision of vertical and horizontal guidelines, but also policies in the context of the question whether EU competition policy is fit for digital age)
apart from that, Ahold Delhaize is inter alia interested in social policies, environmental policies and tax policies.Address
Head Office
Provincialeweg, 11
Zaandam 1506 MA
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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 18 May 2021
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
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Member of EuroCommerce.
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
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 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 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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