Hutchison Europe - Brussels Branch

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

250,000€

Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3.25 Fte (4)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

3

High-level Commission meetings

12

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Hutchison Europe - Brussels Branch   (HEBB)

    EU Transparency Register

    3779891566-57 First registered on 28 Oct 2008

    Goals / Remit

    The Hutchison Europe - Brussels Branch is responsible for the representation of Hutchison Whampoa Limited’s (HWL) interests in the European institutions and for raising the company’s visibility in Europe. It contributes to the company’s’ long term strategies by gathering and feeding back vital intelligence on current and future EU policies and initiatives.

    Hutchison Whampoa Limited is a leading international corporation committed to innovation and technology with businesses spanning the globe. With operations in 50 countries and over 260,000 employees worldwide, HWL has six core businesses: ports and related services, property and hotels, retail, infrastructure, energy, and telecommunications. Hutchison has a strong commitment to the highest standards of corporate governance, transparency and accountability.

    Ports and related services - HWL is one of the world’s leading port developer and operator as well as a respected industry leader in the application of technologies to strengthen the entire transportation and logistics chain. Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) holds and manages the Group’s ports and related services in 26 countries, operating a total of 319 berths in 52 ports. It is the world’s largest privately owned container terminal operator, operating in 5 of the 8 busiest container ports in the world. In Europe HPH operates the Port of Felixstowe, Thamesport, Harwich International Port (United Kingdom); the ECT City Terminals, ECT Delta Terminal, Euromax Terminal, ECT Trimodal Container Terminal Venlo (Netherlands); the Gdynia Container Terminal S.A. (Poland); the DeCeTe Duisburger Container-Terminals (Germany); the Trimodal Container Terminal (Belgium) and the Terminal Catalunya (Spain).

    Property and hotels - HWL’s properties division, Hutchison Whampoa Properties Limited, is a developer of residential, commercial, office, hotel and recreational projects, mostly in Asia. It has an investment portfolio of approximately 13.8 million square feet at present. HWL has invested and acquired interests in a number of overseas property developments in the UK.

    Retail - A.S. Watson Group, the retail and manufacturing group of HWL, operates a network of over 10,800 retail stores in 22 markets worldwide. In Europe, the Group operates a number of health & beauty retail brands, chains - Drogas, including Kruidvat, Superdrug, Rossmann, Savers, Trekpleister, Drogas, Spektr and Watsons. In addition, it also owns two luxury perfumeries and cosmetics retail brands ICI PARIS XL and The Perfume Shop.

    Energy, and infrastructure - HWL’s investments in energy and infrastructure are mainly in Asia, Australia, North America and the UK where it acquired Cambridge Water and the North of England Gas Distribution Network (NEG). This division includes Hutchison China Meditech Limited and Sen, which research, develop, manufacture and distribute Traditional Chinese Medicine consumer products.

    Telecommunications - Operating under the "3" brand, Hutchison has been leading the way in 3G development worldwide. It was the first company to roll out commercial 3G services in Europe and is building a totally new kind of consumer experience based on high speed mobile video telephony, streaming and downloads, as well as music, voice and data services. Globally, Hutchison has 3G operations in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Macau, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (Hutchison Telecom), another Hutchison’s key telecom company, operates 2G and 3G wireless businesses in seven markets around the globe.

    Main EU files targeted

    EU transport policy, EU Telecommunications policy, retail and internal market policies, logistics, energy, environment.

    Address

    Head Office
    48th Floor, Cheung Kong Center,
    2 Queen’s Road Central
    Hong Kong Central HK
    HONG KONG
    EU Office
    Square de Meeus 35
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    4

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%3
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 05 Feb 2020

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Jimena BERNAR 19 Jul 2022 19 Jul 2023
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 13 Jul 2022 13 Jul 2023
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 25 Sep 2019 25 Sep 2020
    Ms Jimena BERNAR 06 Sep 2019 05 Sep 2020
    Ms Timea Susanova 11 May 2019 09 May 2020
    Ms Christelle HUTCHINGS 13 Feb 2019 13 Sep 2019
    Ms Jimena BERNAR 08 Sep 2018 06 Sep 2019
    Ms Timea Susanova 19 Apr 2018 19 Apr 2019
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 11 Sep 2017 12 Sep 2018
    Ms Jimena BERNAR 11 Sep 2017 08 Sep 2018
    Ms Timea Susanova 25 Apr 2017 19 Apr 2018
    Mr Harald Boerekamp 23 Jan 2017 06 Oct 2017
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 15 Sep 2016 11 Sep 2017
    Ms Jimena BERNAR 13 Sep 2016 09 Sep 2017
    Ms Ana Rita MIRA DE CASTRO 26 Aug 2015 25 Aug 2016
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 19 Aug 2015 31 Aug 2016
    Ms Jimena BERNAR 13 Aug 2015 10 Aug 2016
    Ms Sanne Jorien van Welij 19 Mar 2015 17 Sep 2015
    Ms Jimena BERNAR 07 Aug 2014 05 Aug 2015
    Mrs Jimena BERNAR 07 Aug 2014 27 Jan 2015
    Ms Ana Rita MIRA DE CASTRO 01 Aug 2014 30 Jul 2015
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 01 Aug 2014 30 Jul 2015
    Ms Ana Rita MIRA DE CASTRO 03 Aug 2013 01 Aug 2014
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 03 Aug 2013 01 Aug 2014
    Mrs Jimena BERNAR 03 Aug 2013 02 Aug 2014
    Ms Ana Rita MIRA DE CASTRO 30 Aug 2012 03 Aug 2013
    Mrs Jimena BERNAR 15 Sep 2012 03 Aug 2013
    Mrs Ana Rita MIRA DE CASTRO 30 Aug 2012 01 Aug 2013
    Ms Ana Rita MIRA DE CASTRO 30 Aug 2012 17 Apr 2013
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 29 Aug 2012 03 Aug 2013
    Mrs Ana Rita MIRA DE CASTRO 03 Oct 2011 30 Aug 2012
    Mr John BLAKEMORE 07 Nov 2011 30 Aug 2012
    Mrs Jimena BERNAR 16 Nov 2011 01 Nov 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

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    FEPORT (Federation of European Private Port Operators)
    GSMA
    AEL (Alliance for European Logistics)
    EIF (European Internet Foundation)

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    250,000€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    Our activities focus essentially on transport, telecommunications and retail legislation.

    Major activities in 2013 included Transport Policy (e.g. draft regulation on market access to port services and financial transparency of ports) and Telecoms (e.g. draft regulation to achieve a connected continent.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    12 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 30 May 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject Issues within Competition portfolio.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
      Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age
      Attending
      • Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet member)
      • Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
      • Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)
    • Date 26 Feb 2018 Location Barcelona
      Subject Code, ePrivacy, Net neutrality
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
      • Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
      • Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 27 Feb 2017 Location Barcelona
      Subject 5G, roaming, spectrum, investment consolidation
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
      • Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
      • Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 07 Apr 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Merger case
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
      Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
      Attending
      • Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)
    • Date 23 Feb 2016 Location Barcelona
      Subject DSM Strategy, investments, digitalisation of industry
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
      • Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 26 Oct 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject teco review and structure of telco market
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
    • Date 23 Oct 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject DSM
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
      • Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 16 Mar 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject EU retail policy and cross-border e-commerce
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
      Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
    • Date 26 Jan 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Investment Initiative
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen
      Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
      Attending
      • Heidi Jern (Cabinet member)
      • Aura Salla (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 13 Jan 2015 Location Brussels-Belgium
      Subject EU transport priorities
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Desiree Oen (Cabinet member)
    • Date 13 Jan 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital Single Market
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
    • Date 15 Dec 2014 Location Brussels
      Subject Existing barriers to the internal market, impact of environmental policies, feedback and future of High level Group on Logistics, EU ports policy, EU logistics policy
      DG Mobility and Transport
      Attending
      • Joao Aguiar Machado (Director-General)
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