Alibaba Group Holding Limited

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Apr 2015 - Mar 2016

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1 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

    e-Commerce
    • Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain aspects concerning contracts for the online and other distance sales of goods.
    • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on addressing geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers’ nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009/22/EC.
    • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on cross-border parcel delivery services.
    • Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on an action plan on VAT.

    Intellectual Property
    • Memorandum of Understanding on the online sale of counterfeit goods.
    • Review of the EU intellectual property enforcement framework (REFIT).

    Data Protection
    • Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

    SME Policy
    • Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions. Upgrading the Single Market: more opportunities for people and business (start-up initiative)

    Address

    Head Office
    c/o Alibaba Group Services Limited
    1 Matheson Street
    Hong Kong
    CHINA
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%1
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1

    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

    Mr Eric Pelletier (VP, Head of 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

    Alibaba and its subsidiaries/affiliates are not members of any relevant associations, federations, networks or similar bodies.

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Apr 2015 - Mar 2016

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    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 03/2016. The estimate does not include expenditures on covered activities, including for the consultancy referenced in our response to Question 10, that Alibaba incurred after 03/2016. We anticipate that our organization’s financial data will change to reflect any new head count and growing costs attributed to covered activities over time.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None

    ACC

    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.

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