Overview
Lobbying Costs
225,000€
Financial year: Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
11
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
EUROPEAN SERVICES FORUM (ESF)
EU Transparency Register
3562594969-02 First registered on 15 Jan 2009
Goals / Remit
Members of the European Services Forum have have adopted the following Set of principles:
1. In the coming decades, issues related to international trade in services will present challenges to the multilateral trading system that at least equal, in importance and difficulty, tariff and non-tariff barriers to the development of trade in goods.
2. While bilateral and regional agreements and initiatives can play a useful supportive role, a firm and widely supported multilateral agreement remains the ultimate goal of services negotiations within the WTO.
3. Services and other services-related issues (such as investment and public procurement) should be negotiated in all international trade negotiations, with as much emphasis that the one given to trade in goods.
4. International trade in services negotiations should create much improved opportunities for profitable international business. To that end, they should:
• be ambitious in their goals for real liberalisation,
• achieve a broad and deep coverage of services sectors in WTO members and acceding countries, as well as in regional and bilateral trading partners involved in trade negotiations,
• obtain the widest possible standstill commitments starting at the beginning of each new negotiations,
• go well beyond these standstills, in order to remove or reduce as far as possible barriers to trade and investment in all services sectors.
Remaining impediments to substantially full market access and national treatment should be liberalised progressively on an agreed transition schedule. Particular attention should be paid to those services where, not enough progress has been made since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round signed in Marrakech in 1994.
5. The cross-border delivery of services in electronic form is of growing importance for many services sectors. Therefore, specific attention needs to be paid in the international trade in services negotiations to improving commitments which facilitate that mode of supply for all services sectors.
6. International trade in services negotiations should achieve greater liberalisation in all four modes of supply of services: cross-border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence and presence of natural persons.
7. Close monitoring of countries' ratification and implementation at all relevant part of trade agreements should be conducted.
8. Countries acceding to the WTO must make strong and comprehensive commitments to services liberalisation as part of their accession process.
9. Among the goals which should be reflected in the commitments made in national schedules the following are of major importance:
a) The right to establish and operate competitively;
b) Foreign investors should have the same access to domestic markets as domestic companies;
c) Freedom to provide cross-border services in highly international-oriented sectors;
d) Removal of barriers (nationality, residence requirements, etc.) to the posting of key personnel;
e) Exceptions to commitments should be precise, transparent, temporary and limited to the minimum required for their purpose;
f) Existing investments should be grandfathered;
10. Pro-competitive principles to rule-making should be developed, while preserving appropriate regulatory frameworks.
11. Political and public support for trade liberalisation in services sectors will require greater understanding of the benefits of trade liberalisation and the negotiating processes by which liberalisation is achieved.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Avenue de Cortenbergh
Brussels 1000
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People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 22 Dec 2014
Name Start date End Date Mr Pascal KERNEIS 22 Mar 2023 22 Mar 2024 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 30 Oct 2021 29 Oct 2022 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 12 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 24 Mar 2018 23 Mar 2019 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 30 Mar 2017 24 Mar 2018 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 14 Apr 2016 30 Mar 2017 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 20 May 2015 14 Apr 2016 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 05 Jun 2014 20 May 2015 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 04 May 2013 03 May 2014 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Pascal KERNEIS (Managing Director)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade, business & professional associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
225,000€
Other financial info
All incomes of the organisation come from annual subscriptions fees paid by the members.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
11 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 01 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject Bilateral trade agenda, WTO e-commerce Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
- Kevin Keary (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject State of play on key EU trade policy priorities; trade policy pillar of the Green Deal Industrial Plan Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Tomas Baert (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Importance of services in the economie and trade agreements Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Pedro Velasco Martins (Cabinet member)
- Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject Exchange on EU trade policy in the field of services Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Xavier Coget (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject Data Flows in Trade Agreements Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject Trade in services Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)
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Date 26 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Belgium Subject Commissioners possible participation at a future event Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject digital trade Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
- Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject EU's trade strategy; TTIP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet member)
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Date 31 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject New trade policy strategy, TTIP, TiSA and other bilateral negotiations DG Trade Attending - Jean-Luc Demarty (Director-General)
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Date 02 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Speech at Business Alliance for TTIP's Welcome Reception Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet member)
- Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings