Overview
Lobbying Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Financial year: May 2023 - Apr 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Brown-Forman Netherlands BV
EU Transparency Register
220015616134-02 First registered on 20 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
The responsible production, sale, and marketing of spirits and wines around the world. In the context of the Register, we seek to represent the European and global policy and commercial interests of Brown-Forman and the responsible beverage alcohol sector in dialogue with European institutions and other members of civil society.
Main EU files targeted
Files relating to production, sale, marketing, and commercialization of beverage alcohol
Files relating to health, non-communicable diseases, food labeling
Files relating to excise tax, international tax, the single market, pricing regulation
Files relating to the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Files relating to tariffs and tradeAddress
Head Office
Keizersgracht 683
Amsterdam 1017DW
NETHERLANDSEU Office
Keizersgracht 683
Amsterdam 1017DW
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Brown-Forman has an Europe public affairs team of comprising 5 people, each person typically working as to 50% of their time on EU matters, and 50% of their time on either national level or non-EU matters.
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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
spiritsEUROPE (www.spirits.eu)
World Federation of Advertisers (www.wfanet.org)
European Spirits Companies Liaison Group
Distilled Spirits Council of the US (www.discus.org) (through corporate parent)
International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (www.iard.org) (through corporate parent)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
May 2023 - Apr 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
300,000€ - 399,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount shearwater global 100,000€ - 199,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name shearwater global Closed year Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Unofficial groupings
Communication activities
Occasional meetings and correspondence with Commission and EP staff /members
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
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.
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 Sep 2022 Location BERL Subject PPWD, labeling Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Jun 2021 Location virtual Subject EU-US trade relations; Trade relations with other third countries Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
- Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jan 2020 Location Brussels Subject EU-US relations and effects on whiskey industry Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
- Peter Power (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 28 Jan 2020 Location Brussels Subject EU-US relations and effects on whiskey industry Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Attending - Peter Power (Cabinet member)
- Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists