SES S.A.

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

2 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

3

High-level Commission meetings

26

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    SES S.A.   (SES)

    EU Transparency Register

    93799097410-24 First registered on 13 Dec 2011

    Goals / Remit

    SES is one of the world's leading commercial telecoms satellite operators. SES provides services in Europe, North America and the rest of the world. SES owns and operates a global fleet of 54 satellites (Dec 2014) which cover an area that is home to 99% of the world’s population. The company leases transmission capacity on these satellites to public service and commercial TV broadcasters, to enable the distribution of programme content to viewers, either direct-to-home, or via cable networks. SES also sells capacity to corporations and telecoms operators as well as to government agencies and institutional customers. The SES satellite fleet is the world’s leading platform for the broadcasting of audio-visual media. SES is also the world’s leading platform for High Definition TV, carrying more than 1,000 HD channels worldwide. In 2010, the company generated roughly 70% of its total turnover from capacity sales for video transmission. In addition to the capacity business, SES provides service activities which essentially support customers' use of satellite capacity. These include activities such as play-out, multiplexing, encryption and satellite uplinks for broadcasters, dedicated networks and broadband intemet connectivity by satellite for corporations and telcos, and a wide array of services ranging from hosted payloads to dedicated satellite capacity and customised networks for government agencies.
    SES serves the Western, continental and Eastern European markets as far east as Russia. The principal application is television broadcasting, both for DTH reception and for redistribution through cable networks.
    SES is the leading provider of DTH transmission capacity in Europe, using the ASTRA satellite fleet, as well as other capacity on the SES fleet to carry content to European viewers. In North America, SES provides services to broadcasters, cable networks, VSAT network operators, direct-to-home platform providers, private network providers, intemet service providers, mobile broadband providers, government agencies, educational institutions, telephone companies, corporations as well as civil and military agencies of the U.S. government.
    SES provides transponder capacity services to cable programmers and leading television broadcaster networks distributing programming to virtually all cable head-ends and hundreds of network affiliates, as well as to the major DTH distributors, multiple dwelling systems and hotels. SES supplies DTH satellite broadcaster EchoStar and its affiliated companies with transmission capacity to supplement its own fleet.
    SES' international operations in emerging markets provide transponder capacity for regional inter-connectivity as well as for specific services and applications within Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle-East, South Asia and the Asia Pacific region. SES' Latin American broadcast neighbourhood serves over 18 million cable households. SES satellites over Asia and Africa support approximately 900 video channels and twelve direct-to-home platforms. In the fast-growing Indian market, SES satellites are the home of the first two direct-to-home TV platforms. Corporate information:SES is a public limited company (société anonyme) that is incorporated and registered with the trade and companies register in Luxembourg under number B 81267. SES does business under the SES banner, and uses the well-established ASTRA brand in the core European direct-to-home market.SES also owns participations in regional satellite operators Ciel (Canada), QuetzSat (Mexico), YahLive (Middle East) and Solaris Mobile Europe). SES is also an important shareholder in O3b Networks, a fully-funded venture which projects to operate a Medium Earth Orbit satellite constellation to provide high-throughput connectivity to developing areas of the world. SES is listed on NYSE Euronext Paris and on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange under SESG.

    Main EU files targeted

    Digital Single Market
    Space Policy
    Security and Defense Policy
    Structural Funds
    EFSI

    Address

    Head Office
    Chateau de Betzdorf,
    Betzdorf L-6815
    LUXEMBOURG
    EU Office
    88 av. de tervueren
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    2

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 28 Feb 2017

    Name Start date End Date
    Mr Cécil AMEIL 19 Jan 2024 17 Jan 2025
    Ms Laetitia ZARKAN 07 Aug 2019 01 Aug 2020
    Ms Christine Leurquin 26 Jul 2019 25 Jul 2020
    Ms Christine Leurquin 18 Jul 2018 18 Jul 2019
    Mr Cecil AMEIL 14 Jul 2018 13 Jul 2019
    Mr Cecil AMEIL 31 Aug 2017 14 Jul 2018
    Amélie Werbrouck 27 Oct 2016 26 Oct 2017
    Ms Christine Leurquin 27 Oct 2016 26 Oct 2017
    Mr Cecil AMEIL 21 Jun 2016 18 Jun 2017
    Mr Cécil AMEIL 24 Jun 2015 22 Jun 2016
    Mr Cécil AMEIL 20 Nov 2013 19 Nov 2014
    Mrs Christine Lucienne LEURQUIN 27 Mar 2013 26 Jun 2013
    Mr Cécil AMEIL 25 Jan 2013 01 Dec 2013
    Mr Gerald Eugene Oberst JR 01 Feb 2013 01 Dec 2013
    Mr Nima AZARMGIN 15 Jan 2013 20 Nov 2013
    Mr Gerald Eugene Oberst JR 10 Nov 2012 14 Dec 2012
    Mr Cécil AMEIL 16 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013
    Mr Nima AZARMGIN 24 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013
    Mrs Christine Lucienne LEURQUIN 01 Feb 2012 08 Feb 2013

    Complementary Information

    Legal commercial and engineering teams + Brussels' office

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Christine Leurquin (VP, Institutional Relations)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Gerald Oberst (Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory Affair)

  • Categories

    Category

    II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

    Subcategory

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    ESOA (European Satellite Operator Association)
    GVF (Global Vsat Forum)
    Networld 2020 (ETP)
    5G PPP Association
    techUK
    ESPI (European Space Policy Institute)
    Kangaroo Group

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None

    ACC

    None

    Groups (European Parliament)

    EP Kangaroo Group

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    Advocacy for Satellite communications at EU level (mostly with Parliament and Commission)

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    26 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 28 Feb 2023 Location Brussels
      Subject Space Policy
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
      Portfolio Internal Market
      Attending
      • Valere Moutarlier (Cabinet member)
      • Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
      • Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
    • Date 07 Dec 2022 Location Brussels
      Subject EU sanctions on RT channels
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
      Portfolio Values and Transparency
      Attending
      • Marie Frenay (Cabinet member)
      • Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 06 Jul 2020 Location Luxembourg
      Subject Presentation of the SES activities.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
      Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights
      Attending
      • Antoine Kasel (Cabinet member)
      • Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
    • Date 06 Jul 2020 Location Luxembourg
      Subject Presentation of the SES activities.
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton
      Portfolio Internal Market
      Attending
      • Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
    • Date 09 Mar 2020 Location Brussels
      Subject Courtesy call to discuss satellite navigation and GovSatCom.
      DG Defence Industry and Space
      Attending
      • Timo Pesonen (Director-General)
    • Date 17 Jul 2019 Location Strasbourg
      Subject Satellite connectivity in Africa
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
      Portfolio Digital Economy and Society
      Attending
      • Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
    • Date 27 Nov 2018 Location brussels
      Subject presentation of services and exchange of views
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides
      Portfolio Humanitarian Aid &amp; Crisis Management
      Attending
      • Christos Stylianides (Commissioner)
      • Zacharias Giakoumis (Cabinet member)
    • Date 30 Jan 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject Lunch meeting with VP Christine Leurquin, VP, Institutional Relations and Communications
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Violeta Bulc (Commissioner)
    • Date 23 Jan 2018 Location Brussels
      Subject European Space Policy
      Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
      Portfolio President
      Attending
      • Antoine Kasel (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 18 Jan 2018 Location Bxl
      Subject 5G and Satellite
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
    • Date 23 Oct 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Satellites in connectivity and 5G, D4D
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet member)
      • Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
      • Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
    • Date 25 Jan 2017 Location Brussels
      Subject Space Strategy
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
      Portfolio Energy Union
      Attending
      • Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 16 Dec 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital 4 Development
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet member)
    • Date 28 Nov 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium
      Subject Digital Single Market
      Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
      Portfolio President
      Attending
      • Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
    • Date 09 Nov 2016 Location Rome
      Subject 5G - Big Data in Luxembourg - Spectrum
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Roberto Viola (Director-General)
    • Date 09 Nov 2016 Location Rome
      Subject 5G - Big Data in Luxembourg - Spectrum
      DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology
      Attending
      • Roberto Viola (Director-General)
    • Date 12 Apr 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Trade agreement with Mexico
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström
      Portfolio Trade
      Attending
      • Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet member)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 22 Mar 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject DSM
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 26 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject follow up satellite issues
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
      Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
    • Date 18 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject digitalisation of transport and maritime transport
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Friedrich-Nikolaus von Peter (Cabinet member)
    • Date 13 Jan 2016 Location Brussels
      Subject Space Strategy for Europe
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
      Portfolio Energy Union
      Attending
      • Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President)
      Other Lobbyists
    • Date 04 Dec 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Issue of spectrum allocation for Satlellite communications, GOVSATCOME, Future operations of EU Space Programmes (Galileo & Egnos)
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
      Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
    • Date 19 Nov 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject • Dialogue between the COM and the European satellites operators
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
      Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
      Attending
      • Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
      • Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner)
      • Tomasz Husak (Cabinet member)
    • Date 02 Oct 2015 Location Betzdorf
      Subject EFSI
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
    • Date 21 May 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Satellite telecom and connectivity
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip
      Portfolio Digital Single Market
      Attending
      • Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
    • Date 17 Dec 2014 Location Brussels
      Subject Digital Economy and Society
      DG Günther Oettinger
      Attending
      • Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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