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Overview

Lobbying Costs

200,000€ - 299,999€

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.35 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    BEL   (BEL SA)

    EU Transparency Register

    188266812877-12 First registered on 21 Feb 2014

    Goals / Remit

    A family business for over 150 years, Bel is a major global player in the food sector. We offer individually portioned dairy, fruit and plant-based products, with the aim of providing everyone with access to healthier and more sustainable food. Its portfolio of differentiated and internationally recognized brands include The Laughing Cow®, Kiri®, Mini Babybel®, Boursin®, Nurishh®, Pom’Potes®, and GoGo squeeZ®, as well as some 30 local brands. Together, these brands helped the Group generate sales of €3.5 billion in 2022.

    Some 10,800 employees in some 56 subsidiaries around the world contribute to the deployment of the Group's mission to champion healthier and responsible food for all. Bel products are prepared at 30 production sites and distributed in nearly 120 countries.

    Main EU files targeted

    - "Farm to fork", économie Circulaire, green deal
    - Information et protection des consommateurs
    - Plant-based foods and emerging/innovative foods
    - Food packaging
    - Food law and food safety
    - Food supply chain
    - Common agriculture policy
    - Front-of-pack nutrition labelling
    - Animal welfare
    - protection of natural resources (carbon footprint reduction, biodiversity, water, renewable energy/energy efficiency...)
    - Responsible corporate governance
    Politique commerciale commune

    Address

    Head Office
    Allée de Longchamp, 2
    SURESNES 92150
    FRANCE
    EU Office
    Allée de Longchamp, 2
    SURESNES 92150
    FRANCE

    Website

    http://www.groupe-bel.com/

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%1
    10%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.35

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 28 Apr 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Sarah PHELAN 17 Mar 2023 16 Mar 2024
    Ms Sarah PHELAN 12 Nov 2021 12 Nov 2022
    Ms Sarah PHELAN 13 Jun 2019 13 Jun 2020

    Complementary Information

    5 % pour 3 personnes complémentaires sur les thématiques emballages, nutrition et règlementation/qualité.

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    - AIM
    - WFA
    - EDA
    - EUROPEN
    - EU PLEDGE
    - EAPF

    Member organisations

    NA

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    NameAmount
    anthenor 50,000€ - 99,999€
    influence designers 10,000€ - 24,999€

    Intermediaries for current year

    Name
    influence designers

    Closed year Costs

    200,000€ - 299,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    NA

    Other 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.

    • Date 21 Sep 2021 Location Online
      Subject BEL Group nutritional commitments and specificities
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
      Portfolio Agriculture
      Attending
      • Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
    • Date 27 May 2021 Location Brussels, virtual meeting
      Subject Exchange of views on the Farm to Fork Strategy, in particular the sustainability of the supply chain and the front of pack nutrition labelling
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
      Portfolio Health
      Attending
      • Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet member)
      • Panayiotis Pourgourides (Cabinet member)
    • Date 21 Nov 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject exchange of views
      DG Agriculture and Rural Development
      Attending
      • Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General)
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