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Overview
Lobbying Costs
650,000€
Financial year: Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Alibaba Group Holding Limited
EU Transparency Register
288124335633-28 First registered on 13 Aug 2019
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 Directive 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
- VAT e-commerce package consisting of: Council Directive (EU) 2017/2455; Council Regulation (EU) 2017/2454; Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2459
- Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products
- Product Safety Pledge: Voluntary commitment of online marketplaces with respect to the safety of non-food consumer products sold online by third party sellers
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 regards to the processing of personal data and to 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)
EU Digital Single Market:
- Proposal stemming from EU Digital Single Market Strategy
Free flow of data:
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1807 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 on a framework for the free flow of non-personal data in the European UnionAddress
Head Office
c/o Alibaba Group Services Limited
1 Matheson Street
Hongkong
HONG KONGEU Office
Square de Meeus 38-40
1000 Brussels
Brussels
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 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 13 Aug 2019
Name Start date End Date Eric PELLETIER 07 Nov 2023 06 Nov 2024 Claudia VERNOTTI 13 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024 Manfredi MINUTELLI 18 Oct 2023 17 Oct 2024 Mr Eric PELLETIER 07 Nov 2023 15 Apr 2024 Mr Manfredi MINUTELLI 18 Oct 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Claudia Vernotti 13 Oct 2023 15 Apr 2024 Mr Manfredi MINUTELLI 14 Oct 2022 14 Oct 2023 Ms Claudia Vernotti 11 Oct 2022 11 Oct 2023 Mr Manfredi MINUTELLI 16 Sep 2021 16 Sep 2022 Complementary Information
The above number reflects 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 service 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)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
- The European eCommerce & Omni-Channel Trade Association EMOTA
- The Marketplace Coalition
- The Digital Policy RoundtableMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
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 03/2019.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
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 06 Mar 2024 Location Brussels Subject AI and data governance in EU Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 30 Jan 2024 Location Brussels Subject DSA implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Nov 2023 Location Singapore Subject Exchange on the group’s compliance with the EU Digital Services Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Elina Laurinen (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2022 Location Videoconference Subject DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Mar 2022 Location video conference Subject DSA, GPSR and Product Safety Pledge Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Jan 2022 Location Virtual meeting Subject Discussion on Instant Payments / standardisation of QR codes. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
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)
Other Lobbyists