Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Costa Crociere S.p.A. (Costa Group)
EU Transparency Register
614156234317-03 First registered on 20 Mar 2019
Goals / Remit
As part of Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest leisure travel company, our goal is to provide travelers around the globe with extraordinary vacations at exceptional value. Costa Crociere, which manages the two brands Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises, is the largest cruise operator in Europe and China. In addition to these two customer-facing brands, Costa Group also includes Carnival Maritime, its Marine Service Unit. With a current fleet of 28 ships and more than 80,000 berths, Costa Group carried around 3.2 million passengers and had a global turnover of €3.8 billion in 2018. The Group has over 30,000 employees worldwide. The company will add five new ships to its fleet by 2023. The majority of the new ships are fully powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the world’s cleanest burning fossil fuel. This development demonstrates the Group’s commitment to pioneering new modes of environmental protection in the shipping industry.
Main EU files targeted
Tourism, Cruise Industry, Consumer & Passenger Rights, Sustainability & Environment; Monitoring all regulatory aspects related to Marine / Maritime / Shipping Industry. In particular those related to environmental aspects and ports.
Address
Head Office
Piazza Piccapietra 48
Genova
ITALY -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
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 Mr Bernard Francois M VANHEULE 20 Dec 2019 04 Apr 2020 Mr Michael Olaf THAMM 03 May 2019 04 Apr 2020 Ms Susanne BECKER 01 May 2019 04 Apr 2020 Mr Roberto ALBERTI 01 May 2019 04 Apr 2020 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Roberto Alberti (Vice President CEO Office & Strategic Development)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Michael Thamm (CEO)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Costa Cruises; AIDA Cruises; Carnival Maritime
Member organisations
Costa Group or its brands AIDA and Costa are members of many associations/networks among them CLIA, Confitarma (Italian Shipowners’ Association), VDR (German Shipowners' Association).
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Our communication approach is based on three pillars: 1. dialogue & advocacy, 2. communication, 3. networking; Costa Group or our brands AIDA and Costa (also together with partners) organize periodic events, forums, roundtables and write letters, press releases and/or publications all available on our websites www.aida.de and www.costacrociere.it; in Summer 2019 we will publish an Economic Impact study, documenting the positive contribution of the cruise industry to various markets in Europe.
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.
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Date 03 Dec 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject European economy and employment DG Mobility and Transport Attending - Henrik Hololei (Director-General)