Overview
Lobbying Costs
175,000€
Financial year: Oct 2010 - Sep 2011
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
9
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
T&L Sugars Limited (Tate & Lyle Sugars)
EU Transparency Register
50465929991-70 First registered on 25 Oct 2012
Goals / Remit
The main activity of the EU Affairs team is to ensure that EU legislation treats cane sugar refining in a parallel and fair way to our main European competitor, sugar from beet.
Tate & Lyle Sugars is a historic and cherished brand in the sugar market in Europe. Specialists in cane sugar refining, the business has around 1,200 direct and contract employees manufacturing sugar at our two refineries and associated manufacturing sites in Europe.
Tate & Lyle Sugars 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). 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.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Refinery,
London E16 2EW
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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 25 Oct 2012
Name Start date End Date Ms Zara HARINGTON 16 Mar 2019 14 Mar 2020 Mr Gerald Mason 10 Nov 2018 09 Nov 2019 Mr Gerald Mason 09 Nov 2017 09 Nov 2018 Ms Gail Orton 16 Sep 2017 07 Sep 2018 Ms Claire CRILL 13 Sep 2017 13 Sep 2018 Mr Gerald Mason 05 Nov 2016 04 Nov 2017 Ms Gail Orton 17 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2017 Ms Claire Campbell 17 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2017 Mr Gerald Mason 14 Nov 2015 05 Nov 2016 Ms Claire Campbell 01 Oct 2015 17 Sep 2016 Ms Gail Orton 23 Sep 2015 17 Sep 2016 Mr Gerald Mason 12 Nov 2014 10 Nov 2015 Ms Gail Orton 05 Sep 2014 01 Sep 2015 Ms Claire Campbell 05 Sep 2014 03 Sep 2015 Mr Gerald Mason 14 Nov 2013 12 Nov 2014 Mr Anthony Bennett 14 Nov 2013 03 Sep 2014 Mr Gerald Mason 01 Feb 2013 26 Oct 2013 Mr Anthony Bennett 01 Feb 2013 26 Oct 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Gerald Mason (Vice President, EU Affairs & Strategy)
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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 2010 - Sep 2011
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
175,000€
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
- administrative costs of our Brussels office including rent and general office expenditure
- travel costs
- expenditure on professional advice even if the external advisor is represented elsewhere in the register
- costs of any campaign work
The cost range excludes membership fees of the trade associations listed above who appear seperately on the register. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
9 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 12 Apr 2018 Location brussels Subject EU sugar sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
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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 05 Jul 2017 Location Brussels Subject Business discussion Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
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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)
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Date 22 Oct 2015 Location Berlaymont Subject Sugar Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject EU trade policy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Edward Bannerman (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 May 2015 Location London Subject EU future trade policy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Financial Services Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill Portfolio Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Denzil Davidson (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Competitiveness of the EU sugar sector in the run-up to 2017 and the abolition of sugar production quotas. concerns and brief you on Tate & Lyle Sugars current activities at EU level. discuss the CXL duty on sugar cane imports from certain third countries as well as sugar access to the EU market by way of FTA’s currently being negotiated. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)