Apex-Brasil Brussels-Europe

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

100,000€ - 199,999€

Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.25 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

3

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Apex-Brasil Brussels-Europe   (ApexBrasil)

    EU Transparency Register

    91665214476-01 First registered on 04 Nov 2010

    Goals / Remit

    ApexBrasil is the Brazilian Trade Promotion and Investment Agency. Its mission is to develop the competitiveness of Brazilian companies, to promote their internationalisation as well as to attract Foreign Direct Investment to Brazil.

    ApexBrasil offers a number of services to promote the competitiveness and sustainability of Brazilian companies in their internationalisation process, including market intelligence, capacity-building programmes and trade promotion activities.

    Main EU files targeted

    - Due Diligence;
    - Farm-to-fork, including the sustainable use of pesticides, plant health regulation
    - Regulation on Deforestation-free products
    - Fit-for-55, including CBAM, the CO2 emission standards for cars and vans
    - Trade and sustainable development
    - EU trade agreements


    - Monitor EU policies and analyse their impact on Brazilian companies’ ability to export products and services to the European Union
    - Engage with key stakeholders in EU-Mercosur relations
    - Engage with EU decision-makers to promote trade between the EU and Brazil
    - Monitor EU policies and analyse their impact on Brazilian companies’ ability to export products and services to the European Union

    - Engage with key stakeholders in EU-Mercosur relations

    - Engage with EU decision-makers to promote trade between the EU and Brazil

    Address

    Head Office
    Avenue des Arts, 19AD
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Avenue des Arts, 19AD
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%1
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.25

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Dec 2024

    Name Start date End Date
    Vincent FURLAN 25 Nov 2024 24 Nov 2025
    Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho 05 Aug 2024 04 Aug 2025
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 01 Sep 2024 31 Aug 2025
    Bruno CAPUZZI 02 Feb 2024 04 Oct 2024
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 02 Feb 2024 18 Jul 2024
    Bruno CAPUZZI 08 Feb 2023 02 Feb 2024
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 08 Feb 2023 02 Feb 2024
    Bruno CAPUZZI 08 Feb 2022 08 Feb 2023
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 08 Feb 2022 08 Feb 2023
    Bruno CAPUZZI 26 Nov 2019 26 Nov 2020
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 26 Jul 2019 25 Jul 2020
    Ms Priscila TEIXEIRA QUAINI 11 Jul 2018 11 Jul 2019
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 23 Jun 2018 22 Jun 2019
    Ms Anna Beatryz OLIVEIRA 19 Jun 2018 05 Aug 2018
    Emily Rees 05 May 2018 02 Aug 2018
    Emily Rees 05 May 2017 04 May 2018
    Ms Priscila TEIXEIRA QUAINI 20 Jul 2017 11 Jul 2018
    Mr Joaquim Jean M BERRYER 27 Jun 2017 21 Jul 2017
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 12 May 2017 12 May 2018
    Ms Clarisse Joana Clarinda BOULAY 12 May 2017 28 Jun 2017
    Emily Rees 05 May 2017 03 May 2018
    Mr KEN PIERAERTS 05 Sep 2016 01 Feb 2017
    Ms Priscila TEIXEIRA QUAINI 22 Aug 2016 21 Jul 2017
    Emily Rees 20 Jun 2016 06 May 2017
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 20 Jun 2016 13 May 2017
    Ms Isabel Karina DE PIAN 16 Jan 2016 21 Apr 2016
    Ms Priscila TEIXEIRA QUAINI 02 Oct 2015 23 Aug 2016
    Emily Rees 30 Jun 2015 04 Jun 2016
    Mr Caio Salame Lobo 30 Apr 2015 01 Oct 2015
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 30 Apr 2015 28 Apr 2016
    Mr Rui Manuel Costa Faria Da Cunha 12 Sep 2014 23 Jan 2015
    Mr Caio Salame Lobo 02 Apr 2014 30 Apr 2015
    ALEX DE FIGUEIREDO ALVES PINTO 02 Apr 2014 30 Apr 2015
    Ms Samla Cristina Da Rosa e Silva 28 Sep 2013 11 Jan 2014
    Mr Rui Manuel Costa Faria Da Cunha 28 Sep 2013 12 Sep 2014

    Complementary Information

    The EU Affairs team comprises of one full-time representative and occasionally one intern requiring Parliamentary accreditation; Apex-Brasil Europe’s legal representative also has Parliamentary accreditation.

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    100,000€ - 199,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    NameAmount
    hill+knowlton strategies 100,000€ - 199,999€

    Intermediaries for current year

    Name
    hill+knowlton strategies

    Closed year Costs

    100,000€ - 199,999€

    Other financial info

    This register has been updated including information about the coalition Brazil Agri-Food Facts, properly described in previous fields, that was formed in 2022 and has its actions coordinated by ApexBrasil’s Headquarters. The financial data (14.b) included to the intermediary described in this register refers to the contract between ApexBrasil’s headquarters and this intermediary for actions involving the coalition Brazil Agri-Food Facts as a whole (not necessarily related to the actions performed by ApexBrasil Brussels Europe), and do not represent financial payments conducted by ApexBrasil Brussels Europe, to whom this register relates.

    In item 14.c, the sum relates to the costs of the activities described by this register and conducted by ApexBrasil Brussels Europe.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Publications: Mercosur-European Union Dialogue (ISBN 978-85-66713-05-3)

    Events:
    EU-Mercosur: untapped potential for industry, services and public procurement (July 2017)

    Launch of the Bilateral Investment Map Brazil/European Union (November 2017)

    Dialogue on sustainable food and agriculture:
    building a low-emissions future (November 2018)

    FFA - Forum for the Future of Agriculture (April 2019)

    Dialogue on sustainable food and agriculture:
    building resilient farming through international trade (December 2019)

    Agri-Sustainability Talks 2019 (November 2019)

    Food production and the trade map: buying local vs buying global (November 2020)

    Dialogue on Sustainable Food and Agriculture:
    Leading the transition Sharing experiences on carbon farming & precision agriculture (November 2020)

    Agri-Sustainability Talks 2020 (December 2020)

    FFA Portugal 2021 - Forum for the Future of Agriculture (May 2021)

    The road to COP26: what is the role of biofuels? (September 2021)

    The road to COP26: is beef climate change villain? (September 2021)

    Options for a sustainable Irish transport system: how to achieve carbon neutrality? (November 2021)

    COOPERATIVISM AND THE ESG AGENDA (November 2021)

    Brazil Talks - sustainability, innovation and productivity (February 2022)

    Brazil Talks - Energy transition: challenges and opportunities in Brazil (March 2022)

    Brasil Talks - Initiatives for a sustainable industry in Brazil (April 2022)

    FFA - Forum for the Future of Agriculture (April 2022)

    AgriTalks Madrid - El futuro que deseamos construir: La colaboración agroambiental entre Brasil y España (May 2022)

    AgriTalks Berlim - A transformação verde da agropecuária no Brasil e na Alemanha (May 2022)

    AgriTalks Roma - Inovações para a Sustentabilidade Agropecuária: Experiências de Brasil e Itália (May 2022)

    AGRITALKS LISBOA - Inovações para a sustentabilidade no setor agropecuário: experiências de Brasil e Portugal (September 2022)

    OECD - Seminar “Brazil and Portugal: building a sustainable economy” – AGRITALKS OECD (September 2022)

    WTO Public Forum - Tropical agriculture: a sustainable alternative for world supply chain (September 2022)

    FFA Regional Spain – Participation in Session 1 - Sustainable production increases trade? (April 2023)

    WTO Public Forum 2023 – Session 28 Inclusive policies in the Amazon: local development as a driver for environmental conservation (September 2023)

    Confernce Soil Health 2023 (December 2023)


    Brazil Agri Food Facts: ApexBrasil manages the coalition named Brazil Agri Food Facts formed by 15 associations of the agriculture and food chains in the country. In Europe, ApexBrasil Brussels-Europe coordinates campaigns and actions within the scope of the coalition. The coalition does not configure any sort of membership or affiliation, being a partnership of equal parts. Nonetheless, the completed list of partner associations of the coalition is provided in the respective section of this register.

    Brazil Agri Food Facts events:
    Dialogue on Sustainable Food and Agriculture: Science & Resilience in Agri-Food (16 November 2022)

    Dialogue on Sustainable Food and Agriculture 2023:
    - Rome (October 2023)
    - Paris (October 2023)
    - Brussels (November 2023)
    - London – AgriSustainability Talks (November 2023)

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    1 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.

    • Date 07 Jun 2024 Location Brussels
      Subject Mercosur, Investment, Export Market.
      DG Trade
      Attending
      • Sabine Weyand (Director-General)
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