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
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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 EconomyAddress
Head Office
Front Suite, 1st Floor, Charles House
148-149 Gt Charles Street
Birmingham B3 3HT
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Boulevard Bischoffsheim 11, bte 1
Brussels 1000
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 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
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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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:
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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).
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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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Date 23 Feb 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Energy policy DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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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)
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Date 10 Jan 2017 Location Brussels Subject Coming event on Health and Food Safety Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
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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)
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Date 22 Apr 2016 Location Brussels Subject Decarbonisation of Transport DG Mobility and Transport Attending - Henrik Hololei (Director-General)
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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 & Energy Attending - Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Apr 2016 Location Brussels Subject UK Referendum DG Taskforce on Article 50 negotiations with the United Kingdom Attending - Jonathan Faull (Director-General)
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Date 18 Mar 2016 Location BXL Subject copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Feb 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Energy Union DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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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)
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Date 20 Jan 2016 Location Brussels Subject Participation in the Breakfast Briefing: discussion on competition policy trends DG Competition Attending - Johannes Laitenberger (Director-General)
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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)
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Date 15 Oct 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Speech: 1 year in office Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis Portfolio Health & Food Safety Attending - Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Date 27 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 27 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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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 & Human Resources Attending - Angelina Gros-Tchorbadjiyska (Cabinet member)
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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 & Food Safety Attending - Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
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