Allwyn International a.s.

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

37,500€

Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.5 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

4

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    SAZKA Group a.s.

    EU Transparency Register

    343059028884-80 First registered on 08 Nov 2017

    Goals / Remit

    SAZKA Group a.s. is one of the largest consumer gaming holding companies in Europe. Its business is focused on lottery and sports betting. SAZKA Group a.s. is the sole owner of the Czech lottery company SAZKA and has significant shareholdings in the Greek lottery OPAP, LOTTOITALIA and Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries. SAZKA Group a.s. strives to bring innovation to the lottery and gaming industry; the vision is to continue expanding whilst adhering to responsible gaming principles, in particular by providing customers with entertainment and life-changing opportunities in a responsible, professional and efficient manner, while having a positive impact on the societies in which it operates. Responsibility is one of the key differentiators of how the SAZKA Group a.s. operates lotteries and other gaming activities compared to other forms of competition, illegal competition in particular.

    Main EU files targeted

    EU initiatives in the gaming sector, including decisions regarding national legislation;
    Follow up to the EC Communication on the European Framework for online gambling (COM (2012) 596 final) and the Council Recommendation on principles for the protection of consumers and players of online gambling services and for the prevention of minors from gambling online (2014/478/EU);
    Monitoring of ECJ decisions relating to the gambling sector;
    Activities of the European Committee for Standardisation – CEN – namely the ‘European standard on reporting in support of supervision of online gambling services by the gambling regulatory authorities of the Member States'
    Proposal COM (2017) 0386 re: the Council of Europe Convention on the manipulation of sports competitions with regard to matters related to substantive criminal law and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (against match fixing);
    Impacts on the gambling sector of the legislation and regulatory proposals related to the EU digital policy (DSA, DMA, Data Governance, Artificial Intelligence, 5G);
    EU Consumer protection policy;
    GDPR implementation and assessment;
    Review of the E-privacy directive.
    EU Cybersecurity policy.
    Anti-money laundering 2021 package: proposal for a Regulation establishing a new EU AML/CFT Authority; the proposal for a Regulation on AML/CFT, containing directly-applicable rules, including in the areas of Customer Due Diligence and Beneficial Ownership; the proposal for the sixth Directive on AML/CFT (“AMLD6”), replacing the existing Directive 2015/849/EU (the fourth AML directive as amended by the fifth AML directive), containing provisions that will be transposed into national law, such as rules on national supervisors and Financial Intelligence Units in Member States and finally the revision of the 2015 Regulation on Transfers of Funds to trace transfers of crypto-assets (Regulation 2015/847/EU).
    EC proposals under the ‘Fin Tech package”’.

    Address

    Head Office
    Evropská 866/71
    Vokovice
    Praha 6 160 00
    CZECH REPUBLIC
    EU Office
    Rond Point Schuman 6
    c/o REGUS
    Bruxelles 1040
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 01 Sep 2021

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Antonella Pederiva 19 Nov 2019 01 Dec 2020
    Mr Kamil ZIEGLER 19 Nov 2019 01 Dec 2020
    Ms Antonella Pederiva 23 Nov 2018 19 Nov 2019
    Mr Kamil ZIEGLER 23 Nov 2018 19 Nov 2019
    Ms Antonella Pederiva 28 Nov 2017 23 Nov 2018
    Mr Kamil ZIEGLER 28 Nov 2017 23 Nov 2018

    Complementary Information

    One person is devoting 15% of her time to the activities covered by the Register, the other person 5%. We therefore calculate a total of 0,20 FTE. The lockdown and restrictions re: meeting opportunities in 2020 - 2021 have significantly reduced our active engagement activities and this is reflected in the above mentioned estimate.

    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

    SAZKA Group a.s. is not affiliated to any organization.

    Some of SAZKA Group a.s. companies are members of “The European Lotteries” (EL) and the “World Lotteries Association” (WLA).

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    37,500€

    Other financial info

    The present declaration covers the costs relating to the activities as defined by the updated EC transparency register guidelines.

    Our financial declaration does not include the fees paid by individual companies of SAZKA Group a.s for their affiliation to EL and WLA.


  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    SAZKA Group a. s. is committed to a transparent and constructive dialogue with EU stakeholders, namely officials of the EU Institutions (European Commission, European Parliament, Council of the European Union), members of the European Parliament, representatives at the European Economic and Social Committee and Committee of the Regions as well as business stakeholders and civil society.
    We generally follow EU and national legislation impacting the gaming and online betting industry. In particular we focus on national licensing procedures and compatibility with EU law, EU sports promotion initiatives and the fight against the manipulation of sports competitions; ad hoc EU policies in the field of data protection, fight against money laundering, digitalization of the economy, innovation, consumer protection, taxation and “better regulation / subsidiarity”. Also, we monitor EU action re commitment to society/CSR/support to culture, sport and education.

    Other activities

    We interact with the EP Sports Group (which is not a formal EP intergroup) and participate in their events.

  • 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.

    • Date 08 Apr 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital Services Act
      Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
      Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age
      Attending
      • Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
      • Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
    • Date 26 Nov 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject SAZKA Group would be interested in discussing ways to strengthen the enforcement against illegal gambling. They would be pleased to share their experience and efforts in Greece where illegal gambling is a genuine problem with consequences ranging from from consumer protection to taxation, amongst others.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici
      Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
      Attending
      • Leila Fernandez-Stembridge (Cabinet member)
      • David Boublil (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 23 Nov 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject On the possible European regulation of the online gambling industry
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová
      Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
      Attending
      • Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet member)
    • Date 12 Jul 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject DSM, platforms, data
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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