Overview
Lobbying Costs
350,000€
Financial year: Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Royal Mail Group (RMG)
EU Transparency Register
654861413162-14 First registered on 04 Mar 2014
Goals / Remit
Royal Mail Group is one of the largest delivery companies in Europe and comprises Royal Mail, Parcelforce Worldwide and General Logistics Systems (GLS):
Royal Mail is proud to be the universal postal service provider in the UK, delivering a six-days-a-week, one-price-goes-anywhere postal service to more than 29 million addresses.
Parcelforce Worldwide operates a separate UK network for express parcels.
GLS is our ground based, deferred parcels business operating in 42 countries across wider Europe and the United States.Main EU files targeted
Postal Services Directive
Digital Single Market
VAT
Data Protection
International tradeAddress
Head Office
100 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0HQ
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 05 Jun 2017
Name Start date End Date Ms Fiona HAMILTON 26 Jul 2018 23 Jul 2019 Ms Fiona HAMILTON 20 Jul 2017 01 Jul 2018 Ms Fiona HAMILTON 22 Aug 2016 21 Jul 2017 Ms Fiona HAMILTON 24 Sep 2015 23 Aug 2016 Ms Rhona PARRY 24 Sep 2015 22 Sep 2016 Mr David Gold 28 Aug 2014 22 Aug 2015 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Fiona Hamilton (Head of EU Public Policy)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Kulbinder Dosanjh (Company Secretary)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Royal Mail Group is a member of PostEurop (ww.posteurop.org) and a shareholder of the International Post Corporation (www.ipc.be).
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
350,000€
Other financial info
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in the 2016/17 financial year. They have been calculated in line with the transparency register guidelines.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
Royal Mail Group represents its interests towards the European institutions and relevant stakeholders in two ways:
It is member of the PostEurop (www.PostEurop.be) and a shareholder in the International Post Corporation (www.ipc.be). The International Post Corporation is the postal industry’s partner company that provides leadership by driving service quality, interoperability and business-critical intelligence. Both give members a collective voice.
The company also engages on specific issues directly with EU decision-makers and stakeholders.- Meetings
Meetings
6 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 09 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Cross-border parcel delivery Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Tomasz Husak (Cabinet member)
- Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Mar 2016 Location Brussels Subject Cross-border parcel delivery Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Vivian Loonela (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 29 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Jasmin Battista (Cabinet member)
- Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 29 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Future of cross-border parcel delivery Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
- Tomasz Husak (Cabinet member)
- Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner)
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Date 29 Jan 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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