British Chamber of Commerce | EU & Belgium

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

291,573€

Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3.75 Fte (6)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

3

High-level Commission meetings

26

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    British Chamber of Commerce | EU & Belgium   (BritCham)

    EU Transparency Register

    56188303384-93 First registered on 29 Mar 2010

    Goals / Remit

    A key network for businesses of all nationalities in the heart of Europe. The British Chamber offers a platform which is informal, trusted, diverse and truly international where business leaders can meet and exchange views and ideas with their peers, policy makers and other stakeholders

    Our EU related work involves the organisation of meetings and events for our members.

    NETWORKING - As one of the most diverse and international chamber in Europe, networking is at the heart of everything we do.
    - We are a network of 172 companies and over 2000 active business people;
    - Two thirds of our members are non-British companies;
    - Members range from large multinationals to small services companies and entrepreneurs;
    - We hold over 100 events a year with business and institutional speakers.

    PROFILING - The British Chamber provides a platform to profile and promote member businesses and build relationships with a wide range of potential clients and stakeholders.
    - High level meetings/networking with senior business and government figures;
    - EU Policy briefings;
    - Keeping up to date with latest business developments;
    - Marketing for members.

    INSIGHT - Our programme of informal and in-depth briefings by leading figures allows our members to gain insights into business and policy developments at both national and EU level.
    - Our events cover a range of topics from high level politics through technical legislative dossiers to practical issues relating to doing business in Belgium;
    - We have specialist committees on business development and the EU;
    - We also hold a number of briefings with national and regional decision makers and senior Belgian business representatives;
    - a particular feature of our briefings is their informal setting.

    Main EU files targeted

    We have four subject groups (task forces) within our EU Committee which organise events around the issues our members have an interest in.

    These are:

    Open and Fair Economy
    Digitalising Economy
    Active and Inclusive Economy
    Sustainable and Resilient Economy

    Address

    Head Office
    Front Suite, 1st Floor, Charles House
    148-149 Gt Charles Street
    Birmingham B3 3HT
    UNITED KINGDOM
    EU Office
    Boulevard Bischoffsheim 11, bte 1
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    6

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%3
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 03 Mar 2020

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Maria BONASTRE ROCA 21 Oct 2023 20 Aug 2024
    Ms Helki KERRIGAN 20 Oct 2023 19 Aug 2024
    Ms Angeline Celine Jacqueline GODIN 23 May 2023 04 Oct 2023
    Mr Teodor Andrei CIOCOIU 23 May 2023 04 Oct 2023
    Ms Elise LONCOL 23 May 2023 23 Nov 2023
    Mr Teodor Andrei CIOCOIU 30 Sep 2022 01 Apr 2023
    Ms Elise LONCOL 23 Sep 2022 01 Apr 2023
    Mr Alonso CABANERO 21 Sep 2022 01 Apr 2023
    Ms Anna CARLE 13 Aug 2022 01 Mar 2023
    Mr Matt STEPHENSON 12 Aug 2022 11 Feb 2023
    Mr Glenn Owen VAUGHAN 18 Oct 2019 17 Oct 2020
    Ms Wendy HENCHICH 18 Oct 2019 17 Oct 2020
    Ms Bernada CUNJ 29 Jun 2019 27 Jun 2020
    Mrs Glynis Whiting 19 Nov 2013 16 Nov 2014
    Mr Glenn Vaughan 11 Oct 2013 10 Oct 2014
    Ms Uzma LODHI 10 Oct 2013 09 Oct 2014
    Ms Christina Economides 30 Oct 2012 17 May 2013
    Mr Pierre-Olivier Lesburguères 05 Oct 2012 17 May 2013
    Mr Joshua Salsby 07 Jun 2012 09 Dec 2012
    Mr Benoit Monteyne 17 May 2012 09 Dec 2012
    Mrs Uzma LODHI 24 Feb 2012 01 Mar 2013

    Complementary Information

    This includes CEO, Head of Policy and EU Affairs, two junior support staff, Events Manager and finance/administration

    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

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

    Subcategory

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    n/a

    Member organisations

    A complete and up to date list of members and contact information is published on our website at the address below:
    http://britishchamber.be/directory

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    291,573€

    Other financial info

    The British Chamber of Commerce| EU & Belgium does not undertake any representational activities. However, our member companies will, from time to time, use the events arranged by our EU Committee for their own representational activities. Therefore, in the interests of transparency and in recognition of the fact that we do provide a platform for our members to interact with EU policy-makers, we list below all of the costs associated with the operation of our EU committee in the last full year.

    All costs in EUR

    Event costs (venues etc) 44795
    Salary costs 162812
    Overheads 83966

    TOTAL 291573

    We note that of these costs, one-sixth could be reasonably said to be costs directly related to representational activities by our individual members through chamber activities.

    The basis for the estimate of costs given is that the chamber's activities provide three equally important benefits for its members – networking, profiling and insight (as set out above). We therefore take one-third of costs as being related to profiling. In the case of EU committee activities, profiling normally includes market positioning (toward clients) as well as interest representation. We thus estimate that up to one-sixth of EU committee costs could be seen as related to the latter.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    The events we arrange range from small scale briefings with ten people, focused on specific and often technical dossiers, to large scale conferences or dinners with senior speakers from government and business covering strategic considerations. Our communication activities are centred around our events - mainly through online media and mailing to our members.

    We plan to produce position papers and publications but we do not undertake lobbying activity (we do projects around trade and business development between UK and the EU)

    Information on our events, both forthcoming and past, is available on our website.

    Other activities

    The British Chamber organises over 100 events per year of which around 60 are related to the EU. Around 30 comprise briefings by senior speakers from EU institutions, governments and parliamentarians covering all policy fields of interest to businesses (e.g. trade, environment, internal market, competition etc).

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    26 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.

    • Date 18 Oct 2023 Location Brussels
      Subject Implementation Windsor Framework
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
      Portfolio Energy Union
      Attending
      • Jan Hendrik Dopheide (Cabinet member)
    • Date 18 Oct 2023 Location Brussels
      Subject Implementation Windsor Framework
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
      Portfolio Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
      Attending
      • Jan Hendrik Dopheide (Cabinet member)
    • Date 18 Jun 2019 Location Brussels
      Subject Priorities as head of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board
      DG Regulatory Scrutiny Board
      Attending
      • Veronica Gaffey (the Chair of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board)
    • Date 27 Mar 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject Dinner discussion “A Fair Corporate Tax Regime and Societal Expectations – Are They Incompatible?”
      DG Taxation and Customs Union
      Attending
      • Stephen Quest (Director-General)
    • Date 03 May 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject British Chamber event: “Progress of Europe on the Move”
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Joshua Salsby (Cabinet member)
      • Violeta Bulc (Commissioner)
    • Date 25 Apr 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Future of Europe
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
      Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
      Attending
      • Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)
    • Date 23 Feb 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject Energy policy
      DG Energy
      Attending
      • Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
    • Date 05 Jul 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Presentation of the priorities of the Juncker Commission with an emphasis on growth, jobs and investment which was followed by a discussion on a wide range of issues such as the future of Europe, skills, IP, chemicals, healthcare, defence, services, data, cars, circular economy and energy costs.
      DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Lowri Evans (Director-General)
    • Date 10 Jan 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Coming event on Health and Food Safety
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
      Portfolio Health &amp; Food Safety
      Attending
      • Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
    • Date 03 May 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Keynote speech on “DSM: what it means for business
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
    • Date 22 Apr 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Decarbonisation of Transport
      DG Mobility and Transport
      Attending
      • Henrik Hololei (Director-General)
    • Date 07 Apr 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Speech: "How can the climate goal be reached and industry protected at the same time?"
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete
      Portfolio Climate Action &amp; Energy
      Attending
      • Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet member)
    • Date 05 Apr 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject UK Referendum
      DG Taskforce on Article 50 negotiations with the United Kingdom
      Attending
      • Jonathan Faull (Director-General)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 18 Mar 2016 Location BXL
      Subject copyright
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 19 Feb 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject Energy Union
      DG Energy
      Attending
      • Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
    • Date 28 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Speech on Sustainability and better regulation in policy areas such as energy, climate action and environment
      Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
      Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
      Attending
      • Sarah Nelen (Cabinet member)
    • Date 20 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Participation in the Breakfast Briefing: discussion on competition policy trends
      DG Competition
      Attending
      • Johannes Laitenberger (Director-General)
    • Date 14 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Speech on EU Growth Agenda
      Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
      Portfolio President
      Attending
      • Paulina Dejmek Hack (Cabinet member)
    • Date 15 Oct 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject Speech: 1 year in office
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
      Portfolio Health &amp; Food Safety
      Attending
      • Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
    • Date 14 Oct 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Capital Markets Union, mandate/priorities, enforcement and Level 2
      DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Olivier Guersent (Director-General)
    • Date 01 Jul 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Financial Policy
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill
      Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
      Attending
      • Matthew Baldwin (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 26 May 2015 Location British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium
      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
      • Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member)
    • Date 27 Mar 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital Single Market
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Robert Madelin (Director-General)
    • Date 27 Mar 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital Single Market
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Robert Madelin (Director-General)
    • Date 23 Jan 2015 Location Berlaymont
      Subject Participation of Vice-president Georgieva in : The European Serious & Organised Crime Conference 2015, Brussels
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva
      Portfolio Budget &amp; Human Resources
      Attending
      • Angelina Gros-Tchorbadjiyska (Cabinet member)
    • Date 23 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject A speech about "Going forward in health & food safety"
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
      Portfolio Health &amp; Food Safety
      Attending
      • Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
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