Overview
Lobbying Costs
600,000€ - 699,999€
Financial year: Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Imperial Brands PLC (IMB)
EU Transparency Register
62460931291-40 First registered on 08 Feb 2011
Goals / Remit
Imperial Brands, a FTSE 100 company headquartered in Bristol in the UK, is the parent company of a dynamic international business specialising in tobacco and non-tobacco brands. Imperial Brands consists of five distinct entities: Imperial Tobacco, Tabacalera, ITG Brands, Fontem Ventures and Logista.
Our core business is built around a tobacco portfolio that offers a comprehensive range of cigarettes (e.g. Davidoff, Gauloises), fine cut (e.g. Drum, Golden Virginia) and smokeless tobaccos (e.g. Pulze iD,ZeoneX), papers (e.g. Rizla) and cigars. Through our Fontem Ventures business, we're also developing a portfolio of brands beyond tobacco, including the e-vapour brand blu and a heated tobacco product brand Pulze. Adding to the breadth of our activities is Logista, one of the largest logistics businesses in Europe.Main EU files targeted
Legislation:
- The implementation and revision of Directive 2014/40/EU on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture , presentation, and sale of tobacco and related products.
- Review of Directive 2011/64/EC, on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco.
- Review of Council Directive 2008/118/EC concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC
- Directive 2019/904/EC on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment
- Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning batteries and waste batteries, repealing Directive 2006/66/EC and amending Regulation (EU) No 2019/1020 (COM(2020) 798/3)
- Revision of Council recommendation of 30 November 2009 on smoke-free environments (2009/C 296/02)
- Commission's Proposal for a Regulation on packaging and packaging waste, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Directive (EU) 2019/904, and repealing Directive 94/62/EC
- Proposal for a Regulation establishing a framework for setting ecodesign requirements for sustainable products and repealing Directive 2009/125/EC
- Proposal for a Directive on substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)
- Proposal for a Directive amending Directives 2005/29/EC and 2011/83/EU as regards empowering consumers for the green transition through better protection against unfair practices and better information
- "Directive (EU) 2022/2464 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 537/2014, Directive 2004/109/EC, Directive 2006/43/EC and Directive 2013/34/EU, as regards corporate sustainability reporting (Text with EEA relevance)
(CSRD)"
- "Proposal for a Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 (CS3D)"
- COM (2021) 706: Proposal for a regulation on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 (EUDR)
- Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment (EU Taxonomy)
- General Product Safety Regulation
EU initiatives:
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Tobacco related regulation
- Lobbying Transparency
- Vaping related regulation
- Anti-Illicit Trade
- Intellectual Property
- Taxation & customs
"Waste Framework Directive
(Umbrella for all EU waste legislation)"
- Movement of excisable goods
- Public health
- Secondary legislation (implementing & delegated acts)
- Scientific developments and Better Regulation [science based policy making]Address
Head Office
Winterstoke Road
Bristol BS3 2LL
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
89 Avenue de Cortenbergh
Bruxelles
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Sep 2023
Name Start date End Date Mr Jesus OLIVARES GUERRERO 01 Dec 2022 30 Nov 2023 Mr Rodion BOGDANOV 28 Oct 2022 27 Oct 2023 Mr Niccolo Balzini 28 Oct 2022 27 Oct 2023 Mr Rodion BOGDANOV 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022 Mr Niccolo Balzini 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022 Ms Lindsay MENNEL KEATING 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Mr Valerio FORCONI 18 Dec 2020 04 Nov 2021 Ms Justyna SMOK-CHAJN 08 Oct 2020 01 Oct 2021 Mr Niccolo Balzini 08 Oct 2020 08 Oct 2021 Mr Jon HOUSE 07 Oct 2020 07 Oct 2021 Mr Valerio FORCONI 27 Nov 2019 27 Nov 2020 Mr Niccolo Balzini 04 Oct 2019 03 Oct 2020 Ms Nveed CHAUDHARY 16 May 2019 01 Jun 2020 Ms Justyna SMOK-CHAJN 13 Mar 2019 01 Apr 2020 Mr Valerio FORCONI 30 Nov 2018 27 Nov 2019 Mr Dries MAEBE 30 Nov 2018 01 Dec 2019 Ms Claudia UNGARELLI 20 Apr 2018 01 Nov 2018 Ms Maria GEORGIADOU 20 Apr 2018 01 Nov 2018 Mr Valerio FORCONI 27 Oct 2017 20 Oct 2018 Mr Federico TRENTA 27 Oct 2017 01 May 2018 Mr Dries MAEBE 27 Oct 2017 20 Oct 2018 Ms Sarah KOSECKI 17 Oct 2017 19 Apr 2018 Ms Corina Pasol 26 Oct 2016 24 Jan 2017 Mr Alessandro TSCHIRKOV 10 Mar 2015 06 Mar 2016 Mr Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 16 Jan 2015 14 Jan 2016 Ms Louise Day 28 Oct 2014 24 Oct 2015 Mr Alessandro TSCHIRKOV 18 Jan 2014 17 Jan 2015 Mr Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 14 Jan 2014 11 Jan 2015 Ms Giulia Gioffreda 05 Sep 2013 25 May 2014 Mr Istvan KOMOROCZKI 16 Jan 2013 15 Apr 2013 Mr Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 18 Jan 2013 14 Jan 2014 Mr Alessandro TSCHIRKOV 01 Feb 2013 15 Jan 2014 Mr Istvan KOMOROCZKI 02 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mr Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 14 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mr Alessandro TSCHIRKOV 01 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013 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
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Tobacco Europe (former CECCM)
European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA)
European Rolling Papers Association (ERPA)
European Travel Retail Council (ETRC)
Public Affairs CouncilMember 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
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
600,000€ - 699,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
600,000€ - 699,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 18 May 2022 Location Brussels Subject Videoconference - Stakeholder event to gather views on the upcoming revision of the tobacco taxation directive Attending - Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General)
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- The Smoke Free Partnership
- Verband der deutschen Rauchtabakindustrie e.V.
- UTOPIA LAB S.R.L.
- British American Tobacco
- Marmel Consult
- Europäischer Tabakwaren-Grosshandels Verband e.V.
- European Respiratory Society
- Hume Brophy
- European Ship Suppliers Organization
- PwCIL
- Philip Morris International Inc.
- European Smoking Tobacco Association
- European Lung Foundation
- European Cigar Manufacturers Association
- Tobaksindustrien, (Tobacco Manufactures Association of Denmark)
- Aalto-korkeakoulusäätiö / Aalto University
- Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited
- European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates
- SAS Institute
- EPPA SA
- European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention
- BDO/Brussels Worldwide Services BV