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Registration as it was on 27 Oct 2023
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Overview

Lobbying Costs

100,000€ - 199,999€

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.25 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    bol

    EU Transparency Register

    576870951717-17 First registered on 26 Oct 2023

    Goals / Remit

    Bol is an e-commerce platform with 13 million active customers in the Netherlands and Belgium, a product range of 36 million items and 52,000 sales partners who sell their goods through the bol.com platform.

    Main EU files targeted

    - Consumer Protection Pledge, consisting of Product Safety Pledge + and commitments on Digital Consumer Rights
    - Memorandum of Understanding on the sale of counterfeit goods on the internet
    - Public consultation for the Fitness Check of EU consumer law on digital fairness (February 2023)
    - Digital Services Act

    Address

    Head Office
    Papendorpseweg 100
    Utrecht 3528 BJ
    NETHERLANDS
    EU Office
    Papendorpseweg 100
    Utrecht 3528 BJ
    NETHERLANDS

    Website

    www.bol.com

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    1 employee is spending 8 hours per week
    7 employees are spending each less than 1 hour per week

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    European Tech Alliance - https://eutechalliance.eu/
    Thuiswinkel.org - https://www.thuiswinkel.org/webshops/
    VIA Nederland - https://vianederland.nl/
    Koninklijke Boekverkopers bond - https://www.boekbond.nl/
    Becommerce - https://www.becommerce.be/en_US/
    Comeos - https://www.comeos.be/home

    Member organisations

    Bol is part of international retailgroup Ahold Delhaize - https://www.aholddelhaize.com/

  • 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

    100,000€ - 199,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    100,000€ - 199,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    - Regular meetings with European Commission (DG JUST) to discuss commitments Consumer Protection Pledge
    - Regular meetings with European Commission on Memorandum of Understanding on the sale of counterfeit goods on the internet
    - Signing Product Safety Pledge + (March 2023)
    - Meeting with Commissioner Reynders, together with European Tech Alliance (March 2023)
    - Meeting with Commissioner Vestager, together with European Tech Alliance (March 2023)
    - Sharing reaction bol on questionnaire and corresponding policy paper to public consultation for the Fitness Check of EU consumer law on digital fairness with DG JUST (February 2023)
    - Meeting with European Commission (DG CNECT) on Digital Services Act / method calculating monthly active end users (February 2023)

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    2 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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