Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
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
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Info
SAZKA Group a.s.
EU Transparency Register
343059028884-80 First registered on 08 Nov 2017
Goals / Remit
SAZKA Group (the “Group”) is one of Europe’s largest and fastest growing lottery companies. Our businesses operate lotteries in most of the European countries where lotteries are privately operated, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece and Cyprus and in Italy. We focus on the lottery segment, including numerical lotteries (draw based games) and instant lotteries (scratch cards), and also provide complementary products, including sports betting and digital only games. We sell our products through both extensive retail networks and digital platforms.
We benefit from iconic and long-established brands, unrivalled POS networks and vast experience of operations. Our businesses have long-term and often exclusive licenses and concessions, allowing us leading and often exclusive positions in our markets.
In November 2021, SAZKA Entertainment, the parent company of SAZKA Group, has rebranded to Allwyn Entertainment: more information @ https://www.allwynentertainment.com/Main EU files targeted
EU initiatives regarding the gaming sector, including decisions regarding notified national legislation, DG Competition decisions on state aid and mergers, ECJ proceedings;
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);
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” (fight against match fixing);
Impacts on the gambling sector of the legislation and regulatory proposals related to the EU digital policy (DSA, DMA, Data Governance Act, Artificial Intelligence, 5G, geo-blocking, Flow of non-personal data, e-privacy, e-IDAS)
EU Consumer protection policy;
GDPR implementation and assessment;
Review of the E-privacy directive;
Cybersecurity policy;
Anti Money-Laundering regulatory package July 2021;
Fin-Tech regulatory package September 2020;
Corporate sustainability; corporate non financial reporting.Address
Head Office
Evropská 866/71 Vokovice
Praha 6 160 00
CZECH REPUBLICEU Office
Rond-Point Schuman 6
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 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 13 May 2022
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 30% of her time to the activities covered by the Register, the other person 10%. We therefore declare the total minimum of 0,50 FTE. This includes the service provider.
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
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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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), the “World Lotteries Association” (WLA) and of the "European Casino Association" (ECA).Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount pangea public affairs 50,000€ - 99,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name pangea public affairs Closed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
This financial declaration refers to SAZKA Group a.s. which is 100% owned by SAZKA Entertainment AG.
SAZKA Entertainment AG was incorporated in Switzerland in November 2020 and therefore the financial statements for the first 12 months are not available yet. SAZKA Entertainment AG has rebranded as Allwyn in November 2021.
However, as SAZKA Entertainment AG completely owns SAZKA Group a.s and continues its activities of interests’ representation, for the sake of transparency and continuity of our declaration, we have declared our costs related to the most recent “12 months” financial data of SAZKA Group a.s.. We will update this submission as well as financial declaration as soon as the financial statements for the year ending 31st of December 2021 of SAZKA Entertainment are available.
Our declaration includes costs relating to our service provider and her activities as per the 2021 Guidelines.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Our group 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 participate in EC public consultations if they are relevant to our business.
Furthermore, when necessary, we will directly address relevant EU Institutions representatives (via requests for meetings, phone calls or emails: for instance, this was the case in the recent discussions in the EP on the proposal for a Data Governance Act).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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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