Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,624,500€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
7
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
JT International (JTI)
EU Transparency Register
71175716023-03 First registered on 14 Jun 2011
Goals / Remit
We were formed in 1999 when Japan Tobacco acquired the non-US operations of tobacco company RJ Reynolds
The further acquisition of UK-based Gallaher in 2007 nearly doubled the size of JTI by adding 11,000 new employees.
Today, our company has over 26,000 employees, and operations in 120 countries. Our headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Our diverse employee base is made up of over 100 nationalities building careers at JTI that span our worldwide operations. We are a truly international business.
JTI recognizes that cigarettes are a legal but controversial product. People smoke for pleasure but there are real risks that come with that pleasure. Accordingly JTI believes that tobacco products should be appropriately regulated.
JTI also believes in the freedom of adults to choose whether they want to smoke and that no one should smoke unless he or she understands the risks of doing so. These risks distinguish tobacco from most consumer goods and they place upon the industry a real responsibility. It's a responsibility for which JTI expects to be held accountable, together with governments and the rest of society.Main EU files targeted
• Directive 2014/40/EU: of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 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 and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC
• Directive 2011/64/EC on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco (codification) and Directive 2008/118/EC concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC.
• The Trademark Directive (2008/95/EC) and the Community Trademark Regulation (207/2009/EC).
• Better Regulation
• International FTAs
• Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste
• Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging wasteAddress
Head Office
8 rue Kazem Radjavi
Geneva 1202
SWITZERLANDEU Office
Boechoutlaan 55
Strombeek-Bever 1853
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 5 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
7 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 Oct 2017
Name Start date End Date Ms Efi ANASTASIOU 27 Sep 2023 26 Sep 2024 Mr Philipp HANSEN 27 Sep 2023 26 Sep 2024 Ms Ksenija BARYSIENE 27 Sep 2023 26 Sep 2024 Ms Mathilde BRASSEUR 28 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Mr Kiyoshi IWAY 20 Apr 2023 19 Apr 2024 Mr Francesco GAGLIOPPA 20 Apr 2023 19 Apr 2024 Ms Ksenija BARYSIENE 04 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Ms Adriana VALLE 01 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Ms Efi ANASTASIOU 01 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Mr Philipp HANSEN 01 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Ms Schamy MILLIMONO 22 Sep 2022 19 Apr 2023 Mr Miroslaw GAJEWSKI 26 Nov 2021 20 May 2022 Ms Adriana VALLE 23 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Ms Efi ANASTASIOU 28 Sep 2021 28 Sep 2022 Mr Philipp HANSEN 28 Sep 2021 28 Sep 2022 Ms Ksenija BARYSIENE 28 Sep 2021 28 Sep 2022 Mr Hendrik Matthias BIERGANS 18 Oct 2019 18 Apr 2020 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 29 Jun 2019 28 Feb 2020 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 29 Jun 2019 28 Feb 2020 Mr Vlad OLTEANU 28 Mar 2019 28 Mar 2020 Ms Andreea Harna 27 Mar 2019 28 Feb 2020 Ms Ksenija BARYSIENE 15 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Ms Delia Andreea VOICA 15 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Mr Brian Dunphy 19 May 2018 18 May 2019 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 03 May 2018 03 May 2019 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 03 May 2018 03 May 2019 Mr Vlad OLTEANU 30 Jan 2018 30 Jan 2019 Ms Delia Andreea VOICA 01 Oct 2017 15 Sep 2018 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 12 May 2017 03 May 2018 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 12 May 2017 03 May 2018 Mr Vlad OLTEANU 22 Dec 2016 21 Dec 2017 Ms Ksenija BARYSIENE 22 Dec 2016 21 Dec 2017 Ms Andreea Harna 10 Nov 2016 09 Nov 2017 Mr Brian Dunphy 08 Nov 2016 05 Nov 2017 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 24 May 2016 13 May 2017 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 24 May 2016 13 May 2017 Ms Anastasia Bakola 24 May 2016 19 Nov 2016 Mr Vlad OLTEANU 07 Jan 2016 22 Dec 2016 Mr Brian Dunphy 11 Nov 2015 08 Nov 2016 Mr Radu Colonescu 13 Jun 2015 06 Jan 2016 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 11 Jun 2015 09 Jun 2016 Ms Anastasia Bakola 11 Jun 2015 08 Jun 2016 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 10 Jun 2015 24 May 2016 Ms Anastasia Bakola 07 Jun 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mr Radu Colonescu 03 Jul 2014 13 Jun 2015 Mr Michael Eduard Hack 11 Jun 2014 06 Jun 2015 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 07 Jun 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 07 Jun 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mrs Anastasia Bakola 07 Jun 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Michael HACK 07 Jun 2013 06 Jun 2014 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 11 Jun 2013 08 Jun 2014 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 07 Jun 2013 06 Jun 2014 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 27 Oct 2012 17 Jun 2013 Mr Michael HACK 25 Oct 2012 17 Jun 2013 Mr Michael HACK 13 Dec 2011 25 Oct 2012 Mr Paolo BOCHICCHIO 16 Nov 2011 27 Oct 2012 Complementary Information
Ben Townsend
Paolo Bochicchio
Brian Dunphy
Vlad Olteanu
Ksenija Barysiene
Andreea HarnaPerson in charge of EU relations
Mr Ben Townsend (Vice-President, Head of EU Affairs)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Eddy Pirard (President & CEO)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Confederation of European Community Cigarette Manufacturers (CECCM) and most of its counterparts in EU Member States
European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA)
European Cigar Manufacturers Association (ECMA)
British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (BCCB)
American European Community Association (AECA)
The Kangaroo Group
Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Business Europe
Forest EU
Japan Business Council in Europe (JBCE)
Public Affairs CouncilMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,624,500€
Other financial info
Due to the change of the Transparency Register Guidelines, the estimated costs for the year 2016 include the annual membership fees paid from JTI to its member organizations.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
Japan Tobacco International monitors a large number of EU policies and actively engages in customs, justice and home affairs, enlargement, taxation, consumer affairs, public health, internal market, external trade and anti-illicit trade. Japan Tobacco International engages with EU institutions either on its own or via trade associations.
- Meetings
Meetings
4 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 10 May 2022 Location Berlaymont Subject Exchange with a group of Romanian journalists, who are sponsored by the European JTI Journalist scholarship, on Commission's communication strategy/press relations during the COVID crisis/war in Ukraine DG Communication Attending - Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen (Director-General)
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Date 05 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject regulatory issues Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Nov 2015 Location BERL Subject Better Regulation Package Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member)
- Meetings