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Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Amway
EU Transparency Register
194220411820-41 First registered on 09 Sep 2013
Goals / Remit
Amway (amway.com) is one of the world's largest direct selling businesses offering its products to consumers directly in their homes through a network of three million direct sellers in about 80 countries worldwide. Alticor Inc., parent company of Amway, was founded in 1959 and based in Ada, Michigan (USA) and reported global sales of $8,6 billion in 2017. Amway is a family-owned company with top-selling brands : NUTRILITE® vitamin, mineral and dietary supplements, ARTISTRY® skincare and colour cosmetics, and eSpring® water treatment systems among others. Amway wants both to sell its consumer products & to give the opportunity of supplmentary income to direct sellers creating their micro businesses in partnership with Amway. Amway supports entrepreneurship
Main EU files targeted
Amway monitors a wide spectrum of issues and legislative developments at EU level related to our products range consumers issues or the internal market:
1) upcoming revision of the misleading and comparative advertising directive , the guarantees directive and the unfair contract terms directive
2) completion of the full harmonisation of the food supplements directive including other substances and maximum levels and of the nutritional and health claims regulation
Another key area for AMway is EU-US trade relations including TTIP negotiationsAddress
Head Office
Avenue des Arts, 50
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 19 Mar 2018
Name Start date End Date Wei QIAN 09 Oct 2021 08 Oct 2022 Ms Imelda Vital 15 Sep 2021 16 Sep 2022 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 15 Sep 2021 16 Sep 2022 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 08 Sep 2020 08 Sep 2021 Ms Imelda Vital 05 Sep 2020 04 Sep 2021 Ms Annette EBELING 27 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2020 Wei QIAN 26 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2020 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 03 Sep 2019 01 Sep 2020 Ms Imelda Vital 03 Sep 2019 01 Sep 2020 Wei QIAN 26 Sep 2018 26 Sep 2019 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 07 Sep 2018 03 Sep 2019 Ms Imelda Vital 07 Sep 2018 03 Sep 2019 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 31 Aug 2017 30 Aug 2018 Ms Imelda Vital 31 Aug 2017 31 Aug 2018 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 13 Sep 2016 31 Aug 2017 Ms Imelda Vital 13 Sep 2016 31 Aug 2017 Ms Cécile Purnode 05 Sep 2015 01 Sep 2016 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 05 Sep 2015 01 Sep 2016 Ms Imelda Vital 05 Sep 2015 01 Sep 2016 Ms Imelda Vital 19 Sep 2014 05 Sep 2015 Mrs Imelda VITAL 19 Sep 2014 27 Jan 2015 Ms Cécile Purnode 17 Sep 2014 05 Sep 2015 Ms Marcella Rodriguez 17 Sep 2014 05 Sep 2015 Mrs Imelda VITAL 19 Sep 2013 18 Sep 2014 Ms Orsolya Tokaji-Nagy 19 Sep 2013 18 Sep 2014 Complementary Information
Two employees are based in Brussels but also have non EU related tasks. One employee is based in Münich and provides additional support & representation for food legislation
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Imelda Vital (EU Affairs Head Office and Corporate Affairs Area Manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Imelda Vital (EU Affairs Head Office and Corporate Affairs Area Manager)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
SELDIA & National direct selling associations
American Chamber of Commerce to the EU
FEDMAMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
1) The implementation of the unfair commercial directive & the consumer rights directive
2) The implementation of the ADR directive & all out of court settlement procedures
3) Consumer rights awareness campaignOther activities
None declared
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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 24 Oct 2019 Location BERL Subject the perspectives of the new Commissioner’s agenda Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Mar 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject New deal Omnibus – doorstep selling Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 30 Jan 2017 Location Brussels Subject Skills and entrepreneurship Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Julie Fionda (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Sep 2015 Location Brussels Subject new medical device regulation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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