Overview
Lobbying Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.35 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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 €3.6 billion in 2023.
Some 10,902 employees in some 51 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 31 production sites and distributed in nearly 120 countries.Main EU files targeted
- Green deal & Farm to Fork strategy
- Information to consumer and nutrition and health claims regulation including Front-of-pack nutrition labelling
- Unfair commercial practices
- Green claims
- PPWR
- General food law, including hygiene and food safety regulations, contaminants, additives, flavorings.
- Food supply chain
- Common agriculture policy
- Animal welfare
- Protection of animal ressources (carbon footpring reduction, biodiversity, water, renewable energy / energy efficiency)
- Deforestation regulationAddress
Head Office
Allée de Longchamp, 2
SURESNES 92150
FRANCEEU Office
Allée de Longchamp, 2
SURESNES 92150
FRANCEWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 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 24 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
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
- WFA
- EDA
- EUROPEN
- EU PLEDGEMember 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
200,000€ - 299,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
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.
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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)
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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 - Panayiotis Pourgourides (Cabinet member)
- Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Nov 2017 Location Brussels Subject exchange of views DG Agriculture and Rural Development Attending - Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General)
- Meetings