Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
FoodServiceEurope (FoodServiceEurope)
EU Transparency Register
822198744-40 First registered on 24 Jun 2008
Goals / Remit
FoodServiceEurope is the voice of the contract catering sector in Europe, bringing together contract catering organisations in Europe and speaking on behalf of a significant share of the market.
Our members are the national associations gathering the contract catering companies in 8 European Member States.
FoodServiceEurope is reinforced by Associate Members, which represent Europe’s leading contract catering companies (Sodexo, Elior, Compass and Trivalor). Associate Members meet annually in the Food Service Roundtable to provide direct input to EU policy proposals that affect the sector.
FoodServiceEurope's role vis-à-vis the European institutions is to raise awareness of the specificities of the sector and to provide EU decision makers with relevant information about the food services industry.
FoodServiceEurope's objectives are to help food services companies to anticipate the impact of further EU legislation affecting the sector, to bolster co-operation between national associations, to forge strategic alliances with other EU actors in the facility management sector and the food chain and to pursue a constructive social dialogue with the trade unions.Main EU files targeted
1.VAT: rates and rules applicable to the public sector and exemptions in the public interest. Responded to public consultation on VAT rates.
2. Public Procurement Package and follow-up on implementation measures to be adopted by Member States, inluding update of social partners guide on the best price/quality ratio award criteria. Responded to consutations on public procurement for innovation and socially responsible public procurement.
3. Food Information to Consumers Regulation and implementing measures: monitoring of developments.
4. Revision of GPP criteria for food and catering services.
5. Members of the Food Losses and Food Waste platform.
6. Promotion of Healthy Diets and commitment to the EU Platform on Action for Diet, Physical Activity and Health.
7. Unfair Trading Practices Directive and impact on the rules applicable to late payments and consequences in practice.
8. Farm to Fork Strategy and monitoring and engagement where relevant on other food law issues, such as reform of organics regulation, acrylamide and revision of the General Food Law.
9. Social Dialogue.
10. Apprenticeships: joint pledge with our social partners to the European Alliance for Apprenticeships.
11.Food Waste package.
12. Single-Use Plastics Directive and implementation at national level that is following.Address
Head Office
Rue du College, 27
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 25% 7 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The figures above include persons from the Secretariat and the Board of FoodServiceEurope.
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
FoodServiceEurope is a member of the European Buisness Services Alliance (http://servicealliance.eu/).
We also take part in the European Employers Network, led by BusinessEurope.Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
FoodServiceEurope and EFFAT were awarded funding by the European Commission for a social dialogue project. The Grant agreements was signed on 27 November 2017 (VS/2017/0382). The maximum amount of the grant is EUR 286.317,10 for a period of 2 years.The financial implications of the project are being managed by EFFAT, as project manager and the payments and costs are thus not directly managed by FoodServiceEurope.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Advisory Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health#E00860 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=860 #Member #C#European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health#E00845 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=845 #Member #C#EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste#E03421 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3421 #Member #C#Sub-group to support EU activites on measurements of food waste#Sub-group to support EU activities to facilitate food donation
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Incentivising healthy lunches for employees through appropriate fiscal policy on fringe benefits: position of the Contract Catering Sector
Launch of updated Best Value Guide for contracting food services in September 2019. This was jointly prepared with EFFAT, with funding from the European Commission.
A FoodServiceEurope Model School Food Standard was adopted in May 2017 as part of our commitment to the EU Platform on Action for Diet, Physical Activity and Health.
Position on Unfair Trading Practices Directive.
Response to consutations on public procurement for innovation and socially responsible public procurement.
Position on a Circular Economy.
Position Paper on the reform of the EU Public Procurement Directive.
Revised Agreement on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Contract Catering sector adopted in October 2014.
FoodServiceEurope’s compilation of good practices to reduce food waste published on Commission website.Other activities
Areas of interest include food hygiene and safety, consumer protection, food information to consumer; labour law, social dialogue, CSR; public procurement, public-private partnership; environment, sustainability and global warming; corporate law; VAT.
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Meetings
2 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 12 Apr 2024 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to present the research on food waste management Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Attending - Roberto Berutti (Cabinet member)
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- Valio Oy
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- FERRERO International
- Cattaneo Zanetto & Co.
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Date 19 Oct 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject TVA pour le secteur public Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet member)
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