Overview
Lobbying Costs
25,000€ - 49,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC)
EU Transparency Register
23256548246-36 First registered on 05 Mar 2012
Goals / Remit
AWDC is the official representative of the Antwerp diamond sector.
AWDC's responsibilities include:
Acting as a body representing the interests of the diamond industry to Belgian, foreign and international governments (and non-governmental organizations); Promoting the trade and industry through sharing and distributing publication material, promotional material and statistics through all kinds of media, setting up exhibitions and trade missions, attending trade shows, all both in Belgium and, to a significant extent, internationally; Helping and advising on all social, economic and financial matters in relation to the import and export of all kinds of diamonds and precious stones through "Diamond Office", as well as supporting the operations of the "Diamond Office" alongside the Belgian government (FPS Economy and FPS Finance).Main EU files targeted
EU External Relations (with a focus on the Kimberley Process, as well as bilateral relations with diamond producing countries);
EU Trade Policy (with a particular focus on EU FTAs and Rules of Origin methodologies used in EU FTAs);
EU Development Policy (advocating political support for responsible supply chains, incl Due Diligence framework)
Politicies with regard to the Financial sector (countering blanket derisking)Address
Head Office
Hoveniersstraat, 22
Antwerpen 2018
BELGIUMEU Office
Hoveniersstraat, 22
Antwerpen 2018
BELGIUMWebsite
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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 05 Jan 2025
Name Start date End Date Ari EPSTEIN 17 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2017 Mr Michaël Geelhand de Merxem 17 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2017 Karla BASSELIER 17 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2017 Filip Buntinx 17 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2017 Mr Nick De Vlaminck 17 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2017 Karla BASSELIER 02 Aug 2014 31 Jul 2015 Karla BASSELIER 02 Aug 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mr Michaël Geelhand de Merxem 31 Jul 2014 29 Jul 2015 Ari EPSTEIN 05 Mar 2012 02 Apr 2013 Mark VAN BOCKSTAEL 05 Mar 2012 02 Apr 2013 Karla BASSELIER 05 Mar 2012 02 Apr 2013 Dries HOLVOET 05 Mar 2012 02 Apr 2013 Complementary Information
The Public Affairs Department of AWDC has 3 FTE (1 head, 1 officer, 1 management assistant). As the Department operates on many different levels (city, province, region, federal government, European institutions, foreign governments/embassies, international organizations and industry associations ...), European interest representation is only one of our many responsibilities.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
See AWDC Sustainability Report to Society 2014-2018, page 24
(https://www.awdc.be/sites/awdc2016/files/documents/DDD_AWDC_sust%20report%202018_A4_0.pdf)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
25,000€ - 49,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount european federation of jewelry 10,000€ - 24,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name european federation of jewelry Closed year Costs
25,000€ - 49,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Possibly an even this year on the financial sector and blanket derisking.
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.
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 01 Apr 2020 Location VTC Subject Exchange on Kimberly Process DG Foreign Policy Instruments Attending - Hilde Hardeman (Head of Service)
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Date 02 Jul 2019 Location Brussels Subject Follow up to June 2019 KP intersessional DG Foreign Policy Instruments Attending - Hilde Hardeman (Head of Service)
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Date 17 Jul 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Preparation of EU chairmanship of the Kimberley process DG Foreign Policy Instruments Attending - Hilde Hardeman (Head of Service)