Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
African Pineapples and Bananas Association (APIBANA)
EU Transparency Register
039704524287-07 First registered on 08 Nov 2016
Goals / Remit
APIBANA is a panafrican association gathering producers and exporters of bananas and pineapples from Cameroon, Ghana and Ivory Coast.
Created in August 2011 and headquartered in Accra (Ghana), its missions is to represent the interests of its members to public authorities and national, regional and international organizations such as the European Union and its members states, the WTO as well as other relevant multilateral institutions.
APIBANA also aims at promoting the sharing of good agronomic, environmental and social practices among and between its members and other stakeholders of the banana and pineapple sectors.Main EU files targeted
- ACP-EU cooperation framework
- EU Trade policy (Economic Partnership Agreements, ongoing bilateral and multilateral negotiations)
- EU support schemes for ACP banana producers
- EU development policy in the areas of sustainable agriculture, private sector promotion, climate change
- Regulations covering the fruit and vegetable sector (certifications, norms, food security, etc.)Address
Head Office
27 Addis Ababa street – East Legon
Accra
GHANAEU Office
49-51 rue de Trêves
Brussels 1040
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 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 22 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Mr Maxime LEBOVICS 23 Jan 2017 16 Jun 2017 Complementary Information
APIBANA has a Delegate in Europe, based in Brussels and in charge of the activities covered in the register, for 50% of its global activities.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Maxime Lebovics (Delegate in Europe)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr George Kporye (Chairman of the Executive Board)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
- Coalition "Banana for Development"
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
A number of our member organizations have received funding from the EU in recent years to implement actions and activities as part of the Banana Accompanying Measures program.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- Participation through member organizations to the implementation of Banana Accompanying Measures implemented by the EU in ACP banana-producing countries.
- Activities in ACP and ACP-EU working groups covering banana and exotic fruit trades.
- Regular contacts with other producers and exporters organizations in ACP countries with the view of implementing joint actions for the promotion of the sector.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
2 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 14 Dec 2016 Location Brussels Subject Role and value of banana production DG Trade Attending - Jean-Luc Demarty (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 07 Dec 2016 Location Brussels Subject ACP banana producers and trade Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Cécile Billaux (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists