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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
SRB S.p.A. (SRB S.p.A.)
EU Transparency Register
622796933499-57 First registered on 17 Dec 2018
Goals / Remit
Our main activity is to ensure that EU legislation treats cane sugar refining in a parallel and fair way to our main European competitor, sugar from beet.
SRB S.p.A. is a historic and cherished brand in the sugar market in Europe. Specialists in cane sugar refining, the business has around 250 direct and contract employees manufacturing sugar at our refinery in Brindisi, Italy. It is part of ASR Group.
SRB S.p.A. is almost unique in Europe in focusing solely on cane sugar. Our cane sugar supply chain stretches across developing countries around the world.
In Europe, sugar is manufactured from both sugar beet and sugar cane. The two models have co-existed since the early 1800s. A competing sweetener, isoglucose manufactured from cereals, now also plays a role in the European sugar market.
Sugar is a very heavily regulated market in Europe. Cane sugar currently accounts for around 17% of the total sugar and isoglucose availability in Europe. Beet sugar accounts for around 78% and isoglucose around 5%. In the global sugar market the situation is the reverse, with cane sugar playing the lead role. Cane sugar accounts for around 78% of total sugar production, with beet accounting for 22%.
Around 70% of Europe’s cane sugar imports are typically sourced from developing countries with which the EU has a preferential trading relationship. These relationships are formalised under both the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the Everything But Arms Agreements (EBA). The remaining 30% of cane sugar imports are largely sourced under the “CXL” quota. This is a quota that exists as a result of trade negotiations with countries that previously supplied countries that have subsequently joined the EU. Most of this sugar is subject to a €98 per tonne import duty.
The operation of the EU sugar market is governed by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Until 2017, this sets production limits, through quotas, for beet and isoglucose, and defines the terms for importing from preferential and other cane sugar suppliers. High import duties exist for imports sourced from outside of the preferential suppliers. The basic import duty for cane sugar is €339 per tonne, but can be supplemented by further duties when world prices for sugar are low.
After 2017, the quotas for beet and isoglucose will disappear, but the duties on raw sugar imports will remain.Main EU files targeted
Main EU initiatives included:
- campaigning for a level playing field in tehe EU sugar market, in particular as regards access to raw material for cane sugar refiners
- building relationships with Members of the European Parliament, in particular following the introduction of co-decision in European Agriculture Policy
- building relationships with the new European Commission and the Permanent Representations in Brussels
- following various international trade dossiers
- following various development dossiers
- following various competition dossiersAddress
Head Office
Strada per Fiume Piccolo n. 10
Brindisi 72100
ITALY -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2019
Name Start date End Date Mr Massimiliano Bassi 21 Dec 2018 01 Jan 2020 Mr Benedetto LORUSSO 20 Dec 2018 01 Jan 2020 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Benedetto Lorusso (CFO)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Benedetto Lorusso (CFO)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
- European Sugar Refineries Association (ESRA)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
The above costs represent the costs estimated to have been incurred representing our interests to the European institutions in our last full and closed financial year.
The estimate includes:
- salary costs representing the proportion of time spent by staff representing interests to European institutions
- travel costs
- costs of any campaign work
The cost range also includes membership fees of the trade association listed above which appears separately on the register. It also excludes the cost of our Brussels office which appears on the register under T&L Sugars Limited (which is an affiliated company of SRB S.p.A).
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
N/A
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
None declared
- Meetings