Alibaba Group Holding Limited

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No longer registered as of 30 Jul 2019 - Registration as it was on 29 Jul 2018
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The following entries are flagged as duplicates of this organisation: 288124335633-28

Overview

Lobbying Costs

650,000€

Financial year: Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.25 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

8

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Alibaba Group Holding Limited

    EU Transparency Register

    204066023415-46 First registered on 15 Sep 2016

    Goals / Remit

    This registration captures activities of Alibaba Group and its subsidiary/affiliate entities. Collectively, our remit is to:

    -Build the infrastructure of e-commerce
    -Enable millions of commercial and social interactions every day
    -Empower our customers with data and infrastructure to help them build and manage their businesses
    -Become central to the everyday lives of our customers
    -To make it easy to do business anywhere

    We believe the Internet can level the playing field by enabling small enterprises to leverage innovation and technology to grow and compete more effectively in their domestic and global economies.

    Main EU files targeted

    Memorandum of Understanding on the online sale of counterfeit goods.
    COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 2006/112/EC and Directive 2009/132/EC as regards certain value added tax obligations for supplies of services and distance sales of goods
    Proposal for a Regulation on the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data within the EU
    Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993, Directive 98/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards better enforcement and modernisation of EU consumer protection rules
    REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services

    Address

    Head Office
    c/o Alibaba Group Services Limited
    1 Matheson Street
    Hong Kong
    CHINA
    EU Office
    Square de Meeus 38-40
    1000 Brussels
    Brussels
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%2
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    The above numbers reflect Alibaba employees who are engaged in the activities described under heading 9. However, we have excluded from this figure Alibaba executive officers who spend a de minimis percentage of their time in covered activities, such as occasional meeting attendance.

    In addition, Alibaba employs the services of a public affairs firm, and a consulting firm, whose staff provides a limited amount of support for those activities, approximately equivalent to a .5 FTE. Those external resources are also not included in the figure above.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Annalisa Barbagallo (Head of Europe, International Government Relations)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Timothy E. Steinert (General Counsel & Corporate Secretary)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    The European eCommerce & Omni-Channel Trade Association

    https://www.emota.eu/

    The Marketplace Coalition (Transparency Register ID number: 867297129603-72)

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    650,000€

    Other financial info

    Consistent with the Transparency Register Implementing Guidelines, the above estimate of annual costs relates to Alibaba’s most recent closed financial year, which ended on 03/2018.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    8 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.

    1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

    • Date 25 Jun 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject Voluntary commitment on product safety
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
      Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
      Attending
      • Věra Jourová (Commissioner)
      • Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
      • Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 10 Apr 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Online platforms
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
      Portfolio Digital Economy and Society
      Attending
      • Eric Peters (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 21 Mar 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject digital single market
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
      Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 09 Jan 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Tackling illegal content online
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
      • Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 09 Jan 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Tackling illegal content online
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
      Portfolio Digital Economy and Society
      Attending
      • Eric Peters (Cabinet member)
      • Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 11 May 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Presentation of the company's activities in the EU
      Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
      Portfolio President
      Attending
      • Leon Delvaux (Cabinet member)
    • Date 04 May 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject IPR & e-commerce related issues
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
      Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
      Attending
      • Marika Lautso-Mousnier (Cabinet member)
    • Date 10 Oct 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject e-commerce
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Kilian Gross (Cabinet member)
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