Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€
Financial year: Oct 2012 - Sep 2013
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
SIDUL AÇÚCARES, UNIPESSOAL, LDA. (SIDUL)
EU Transparency Register
686614515317-96 First registered on 19 Dec 2014
Goals / Remit
Our main activity is to ensure that EU legislation treats cane sugar refining in a parallel and fair way to our main European competitor, sugar from beet.
Sidul Acucares is a historic and cherished brand in the sugar market in Europe. Specialists in cane sugar refining, the business has around 250 direct and contract employees manufacturing sugar at our refinery in Lisbon. It is part of ASR Group.
Sidul is almost unique in Europe in focusing solely on cane sugar. Our cane sugar supply chain stretches across developing countries around the world.
In Europe, sugar is manufactured from both sugar beet and sugar cane. The two models have co-existed since the early 1800s. A competing sweetener, isoglucose manufactured from cereals, now also plays a role in the European sugar market.
Sugar is a very heavily regulated market in Europe. Cane sugar currently accounts for around 17% of the total sugar and isoglucose availability in Europe. Beet sugar accounts for around 78% and isoglucose around 5%. In the global sugar market the situation is the reverse, with cane sugar playing the lead role. Cane sugar accounts for around 78% of total sugar production, with beet accounting for 22%.
Around 70% of Europe’s cane sugar imports are typically sourced from developing countries with which the EU has a preferential trading relationship. These relationships are formalised under both the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and the Everything But Arms Agreements (EBA). The remaining 30% of cane sugar imports are largely sourced under the “CXL” quota. This is a quota that exists as a result of trade negotiations with countries that previously supplied countries that have subsequently joined the EU. Most of this sugar is subject to a €98 per tonne import duty.
The operation of the EU sugar market is governed by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Until 2017, this sets production limits, through quotas, for beet and isoglucose, and defines the terms for importing from preferential and other cane sugar suppliers. High import duties exist for imports sourced from outside of the preferential suppliers. The basic import duty for cane sugar is €339 per tonne, but can be supplemented by further duties when world prices for sugar are low.
After 2017, the quotas for beet and isoglucose will disappear, but the duties on raw sugar imports will remain.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
ESTRADA NACIONAL Nº
SANTA IRIA DE AZÓIA 2690-364
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People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 19 Dec 2014
Name Start date End Date Pedro Conde 05 Jan 2024 03 Jan 2025 Mr Pedro CONDE 05 Jan 2024 15 Apr 2024 Mr Pedro CONDE 05 Jan 2023 05 Jan 2024 Mr Pedro CONDE 07 Jan 2022 05 Jan 2023 Pedro Conde 07 Jan 2022 03 Jan 2023 Pedro Conde 09 Jan 2021 07 Jan 2022 Mr Pedro CONDE 09 Jan 2020 09 Jan 2021 Mr Pedro CONDE 08 Jan 2019 08 Jan 2020 Mr Pedro CONDE 18 Jan 2018 08 Jan 2019 Mr Pedro CONDE 26 Jan 2017 18 Jan 2018 Pedro Conde 26 Jan 2017 15 Jan 2018 Pedro Conde 02 Feb 2016 26 Jan 2017 Pedro Conde 08 Jan 2015 06 Jan 2016 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
PEDRO CONDE (FINANCE DIRECTOR)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Oct 2012 - Sep 2013
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€
Other financial info
The above costs represent the costs estimated to have been incurred representing our interests to the European institutions in our last full and closed financial year.
The estimate includes:
- salary costs representing the proportion of time spent by staff representing interests to European institutions
- travel costs
- costs of any campaign work
The cost range excludes membership fees of the trade association listed above which appears separately on the register. It also excludes the cost of our Brussels office which appears on the register under T&L Sugars Limited (which is an affiliated company of Sidul).
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 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 01 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Sugar industry needs access to raw material / Expected market development Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject EU policies on sugar sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - José Mendes Bota (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject EU policies on sugar sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - José Mendes Bota (Cabinet member)