Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Cigar Manufacturers Association (ECMA)
EU Transparency Register
92802501097-37 First registered on 09 Feb 2009
Goals / Remit
ECMA was founded in the early ‘90s as the representative body of the European manufacturers of cigars.
Today ECMA represents the major cigar manufacturers in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain (including the Canary Islands) and Switzerland. Together the ECMA members account for over 90% of the cigars/cigarillos produced in and exported from the European Union.
ECMA boasts thirteen family-owned companies as part of its membership. Of the full eighteen ECMA member companies, five fall under the definition of small and medium sized enterprises.
With a total number of approximately 9 billion cigars/cigarillos being consumed within the European Union each year, cigar consumption represents approximately 1,6% of the total consumption of tobacco products in the European Union. This makes the cigar industry the smallest member of the tobacco family.Main EU files targeted
- Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC
- Council Directive 2011/64/EU of 21 June 2011 on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured Tobacco
- Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC
- Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment
- Council Recommendation of 30 November 2009 on smoke-free environmentsAddress
Head Office
Rue Véronèse 73
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Véronèse 73
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 May 2022
Name Start date End Date Mr Paul VARAKAS 21 Feb 2023 21 Feb 2024 Mr Paul VARAKAS 17 Nov 2021 17 Nov 2022 Mr Paul Wujek 22 Oct 2020 01 Nov 2021 Mr Paul Wujek 08 Aug 2019 08 Aug 2020 Ms Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 07 Dec 2018 07 Dec 2019 Ms Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 15 Jan 2018 07 Dec 2018 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 15 Jan 2018 12 Jan 2019 Ms Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 16 Dec 2016 16 Dec 2017 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 16 Dec 2016 16 Dec 2017 Ms Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 05 Jan 2016 16 Dec 2016 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 05 Jan 2016 16 Dec 2016 Ms Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 17 Dec 2014 15 Dec 2015 Mrs Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 17 Dec 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 17 Dec 2014 15 Dec 2015 Mrs Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 14 Jan 2014 17 Dec 2014 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 14 Jan 2014 17 Dec 2014 Mrs Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 26 Jan 2013 14 Jan 2014 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 19 Jan 2013 14 Jan 2014 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 26 Oct 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mrs Maria Angeles MARTINEZ PASTOR 20 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mr Marcel CRIJNEN 20 Dec 2011 26 Oct 2012 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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
Paul Varakas is a Board member and President of the Society of European Affairs Professionals (SEAP) - https://seap.be
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 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
ECMA is 100% funded by its full members listed above.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Excise Contact Group #E02806#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=2806 #Member #C#Civil society, Employees/workers
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
DG TAXUD Excise Contact Group
DG SANTE EU-CEG stakeholders tobacco
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.