Overview
Lobbying Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.6 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) (Essity)
EU Transparency Register
811973020584-68 First registered on 09 Feb 2016
Goals / Remit
Essity is a global, leading hygiene and health company with the purpose to break barriers to well-being.
Every day, we improve the hygiene and health of one billion people in 150 countries. Our leading global brands are TENA and Tork, and other strong brands, such as JOBST, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo and Zewa. Essity has about 36,000 employees. Net sales in 2023 amounted to 147,147 SEK billion. The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Essity breaks barriers to well-being and contributes to a healthy, sustainable and circular society.Main EU files targeted
Circular economy package
Energy union including EU ETS
Climate change/Fit for 55
Chemicals/REACH Review
Healthcare policies
Consumer policies
Medical technology
Transportation
Deforestation regulationAddress
Head Office
Klarbergsviadukten 63
Stockholm 101 23
SWEDENEU Office
Klarbergsviadukten 63
Stockholm 101 23
SWEDENWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 25% 1 10% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.6
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 27 Jul 2024
Name Start date End Date Sofia KRIGSMAN 18 Oct 2023 17 Oct 2024 Sofia KRIGSMAN 22 Sep 2022 22 Sep 2023 Complementary Information
Since August 2022, we have a Brussels based employee. During 2023 she worked 75 % with activities describe under heading 9. One FTE:s working with Global Public Affairs with approximately 0.25 of his time with activities covered by the register. App. 12 FTE:s working approx. 0,05 of their time with the activities described under heading 9, Hence during 2023 total of 1,6 FTE:s working on activities related to the register.
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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
CEPI: http://www.cepi.org/
ETS: http://europeantissue.com/
Edana: http://www.edana.org/
MedTech Europe: http://www.medtecheurope.org/
AIM European Brands Association:
https://www.aim.be/
The Nordic Network
Wirtschaftsrat der CDU e.V. - Wirtschaftsrat
Wirtschaftsforum der SPD e.V.Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
500,000€ - 599,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Emissions rights 2,704€ Grant R&D Project Sustronics funding 35€ Grant Energy subsidies 15,924€ Grant Training costs and salary compensations 77€ Grant Freight Grant Canary Islands 1,495€ Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount kreab and kekst 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name kreab worldwide Closed year Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Other financial info
The two major posts under the estimated total costs consists of staff costs and membership fees. See below for details. 1. Staff costs: based on FTE figure declared under heading 10
Ca 1,5 milj SEK x 1,6= 2,88 milj SEK = 247 104 EUR
Member ship fees:
CEPI: The Confederation of European Paper Industries
For more details see www.cepi.org
Contributions in in 2023 SEK 2.6m (2022: SEK 1.6m)
Medtech Europe For more details see www.medtecheurope.org
Contributions in 2023 SEK 1.5m (2022: SEK 1.4m)
European Tissue Symposium (ETS) For more details see https://europeantissue.com
Contributions in 2023 SEK 1.8m (2022: SEK 1.3m)
AIM: European Brands Association For more details see www.aim.be
Contributions in 2023 SEK 0.3m (2022: SEK 0.8m)
Edana: European Disposables and Nonwovens Association
For more details see www.edana.org
Contributions in 2023 SEK 0.8m (2022: SEK 0.4m)
In the Transparency Register Guidelines page 24 it is stated that the members of an association should declare 60 percent of their membership fees, hence 7 mil SEK x 0,6 = 4,2 mil SEK = 340 000 EUR
The estimated total cost also incudes outsourced activity costs, office and administrative expenses, in-house operational expenditure, representation costs and other relevant costs.
We have become a member of the German Der Wirtschaftstrat (Transparency reg. nr: 176334311014-43), 6,1 percent of our fee in Germany goes to the EU branch and equals to 2500 euros.
Complementary information on Financial data and funding received from the EU>
From January 2022, under the Innovation Fund, Essity has been approved to receive EU funding for a total amount of EUR 4 200 000.
https://www.essity.com/media/news-features/2022/essity-receives-eu-funding-for-sustainable-development/ -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
We have been engaging in a number of issues on the EU-agenda and provided our responses in consultations, provided comments on roadmaps and interacted with decisions makers in Brussels. For example Essity EU Director Public Affairs Sofia Krigsman has participated in a number of panel talks in Brussels discussing files under the European Green Deal.
In May 2023 Essity organized Essential Talks Live on EU actions on preventing Antimicrobial Resistance. The Live talk is available to watch on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFyNi93XAcQ
On our web-site you find the most important policy positions:
https://www.essity.com/sustainability/role-in-society/positions/
Hygiene and health
• Accelerating Action on Hygiene & Health for all
• Response to the European Commission on the European Care Strategy
Environment
• Biodiversity
• Response to the European Commission Roadmap on New Circular Economy Action Plan
• Response to the European Commission Sustainable Products Initiative
• Policy Position on the Circular Economy Action Plan
• Essity response to European Commission consultation on the Green Claims proposalOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 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 25 Jan 2021 Location Brussels Subject Commission’s priorities for digital and industrial policy in 2021 Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet member)
- Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet member)
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