Imperial Brands PLC

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

700,000€ - 799,999€

Financial year: Oct 2022 - Sep 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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 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 KINGDOM
    EU Office
    89 Avenue de Cortenbergh
    Bruxelles 1000
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 07 Oct 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Jesus OLIVARES GUERRERO 14 Dec 2023 04 Oct 2024
    Rodion BOGDANOV 14 Dec 2023 04 Oct 2024
    Niccolo BALZINI 14 Dec 2023 04 Oct 2024
    Jesus OLIVARES GUERRERO 01 Dec 2022 01 Dec 2023
    Rodion BOGDANOV 28 Oct 2022 28 Oct 2023
    Niccolo BALZINI 28 Oct 2022 28 Oct 2023
    Rodion BOGDANOV 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022
    Niccolo BALZINI 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022
    Ms Lindsay MENNEL KEATING 01 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022
    Valerio FORCONI 18 Dec 2020 04 Nov 2021
    Justyna SMOK-CHAJN 08 Oct 2020 01 Oct 2021
    Niccolo BALZINI 08 Oct 2020 08 Oct 2021
    Mr Jon HOUSE 07 Oct 2020 07 Oct 2021
    Valerio FORCONI 27 Nov 2019 27 Nov 2020
    Niccolo BALZINI 04 Oct 2019 03 Oct 2020
    Ms Nveed CHAUDHARY 16 May 2019 01 Jun 2020
    Justyna SMOK-CHAJN 13 Mar 2019 01 Apr 2020
    Valerio FORCONI 30 Nov 2018 27 Nov 2019
    Mr Dries MAEBE 30 Nov 2018 01 Dec 2019
    Claudia Ungarelli 20 Apr 2018 01 Nov 2018
    Maria GEORGIADOU 20 Apr 2018 01 Nov 2018
    Valerio FORCONI 27 Oct 2017 20 Oct 2018
    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
    Alessandro Tschirkov 10 Mar 2015 06 Mar 2016
    Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 16 Jan 2015 14 Jan 2016
    Ms Louise Day 28 Oct 2014 24 Oct 2015
    Alessandro Tschirkov 18 Jan 2014 17 Jan 2015
    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
    Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 18 Jan 2013 14 Jan 2014
    Alessandro Tschirkov 01 Feb 2013 15 Jan 2014
    Mr Istvan KOMOROCZKI 02 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013
    Nikolaos MERTZANIDIS 14 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013
    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Tobacco Europe (former CECCM)
    European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA)
    European Rolling Papers Association (ERPA)
    European Travel Retail Council (ETRC)
    Public Affairs Council

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Oct 2022 - Sep 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    700,000€ - 799,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    700,000€ - 799,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    None declared

    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 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.

    1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

    • Date 18 May 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject Videoconference - Stakeholder event to gather views on the upcoming revision of the tobacco taxation directive
      DG Taxation and Customs Union
      Attending
      • Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General)
      Other Lobbyists
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