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Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5 Fte (9)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Small Business Alliance (ESBA)
EU Transparency Register
741179426673-35 First registered on 07 Apr 2017
Goals / Remit
ESBA is a non-party political European group, which cares for small business entrepreneurs and the self-employed and represents them through targeted EU advocacy activities. ESBA also works towards the development of strong independent advocacy and benefits groups in European countries. ESBA is one of the largest organisations based on voluntary membership in Europe. Through its direct membership, associate membership and cooperation agreements, ESBA today represents more than one million small businesses and covers 36 European countries.
Main EU files targeted
Consumer and marketing law
European Services Card
Internal Market for Goods
Mutual Recognition of Goods
Single Market Information tool
VAT action plan
Digital Single Gateway
Collaborative economy
Start-up Initiative
Standardisation package
Better admin cooperation and a simplification package
TTIP
Eurovignette and EETS
Circular economy
Eco design
Waste Directive
REACH
Posted workers
Work-life balance
Initiative on skills
Pillar of Social Rights
Quality frameworks for apprenticeships and proposal on increased mobility for them
Implementation of Working Time Directive (non-legislative)
Insolvency II
Corporate Taxation
IPR
Online Platforms
Digital Contract Law
Geo-blocking
Parcel Delivery
Cross border VATAddress
Head Office
14 Rue de la Science
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
9
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 3 50% 4 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 30 Jan 2020
Name Start date End Date Andrew CAVE 22 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 David CARO 20 Jun 2018 01 Jun 2019 David CARO 27 Apr 2017 26 Apr 2018 Complementary Information
None declared
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
Society of European Affairs Professionals (SEAP)
www.seap.beMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
30,000 € (Source: European Commission)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Network of SME Envoys#E02666 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2666 #Observer #C
Groups (European Parliament)
SME Intergroup
Communication activities
Project: Early Warning Europe
Project: MobiliseSME
Project: SMOOTHOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 04 May 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Exchange on the upcoming update of the Industrial Strategy and its SMEs dimension Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 28 May 2020 Location video-conferencing Subject COVID-19 relief measures Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
- Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 06 Mar 2020 Location Brussels Subject Industrial Strategy, SMEs strategy, Social Dialogue and Pillar of Social Rights, European Semester Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
- Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)
- Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists