Imperial Brands PLC

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

650,000€

Financial year: Oct 2018 - Sep 2019

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

5.5 Fte (6)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

2

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. skruf), papers (e.g. Rizla) and cigars (e.g. Montecristo, Cohiba). Through our Fontem Ventures business, we're also developing a portfolio of brands beyond tobacco, including the e-vapour brand blu. Adding to the breadth of our activities is Logista, one of the largest logistics businesses in Europe.

    Main EU files targeted

    Legislation:
    • The implementation 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

    EU initiatives:
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Tobacco related regulation
    • Lobbying Transparency
    • Vaping related regulation
    • Anti-Illicit Trade
    • Intellectual Property
    • Taxation & customs
    • 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
    Avenue de Cortenbergh 89
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    6

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%5
    50%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    5.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Jul 2020

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Jesus OLIVARES GUERRERO 14 Dec 2023 13 Dec 2024
    Mr Rodion BOGDANOV 14 Dec 2023 13 Dec 2024
    Mr Niccolo Balzini 14 Dec 2023 13 Dec 2024
    Mr Jesus OLIVARES GUERRERO 01 Dec 2022 01 Dec 2023
    Mr Rodion BOGDANOV 28 Oct 2022 28 Oct 2023
    Mr Niccolo Balzini 28 Oct 2022 28 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

    We recruit 2 trainees on a 6-months basis under a 'convention d'immersion professionnelle'.

    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

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

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Oct 2018 - Sep 2019

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    650,000€

    Other financial info

    This estimate is calculated according to salary costs of IMB Brussels Office staff involved in interest representation, based on the proportion of employee time devoted to these activities. In addition, it includes an estimate of the costs related to interest representation towards the European Institutions by non-Brussels-based employees, also in proportion to their activities. According to the Transparency Register Compliance Guidelines on financial information, this estimate includes fees paid for outsourced activities (i.e. consultancy contract fees). The estimate excludes membership fees to the various trade associations, as those organisations have registered themselves. The list is included in the 'Membership and affiliation' section.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    None

    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.

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