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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.5 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Small Business Alliance (ESBA)
EU Transparency Register
97165848130-92 First registered on 22 Feb 2012
Goals / Remit
ESBA is a non-party political European group, which cares for small business entrepreneurs and the self-employed and represents them through targeted EU advocacy activities. ESBA also works towards the development of strong independent advocacy and benefits groups in European countries. ESBA is one of the largest organisations based on voluntary membership in Europe. Through its direct membership, associate membership and cooperation agreements, ESBA today represents almost one million small businesses and covers 36 European countries.
Main EU files targeted
Interaction with the EU insititions, notably Commission, EP and Council. ESBA is a non-party political European group, which cares for small business entrepreneurs and the self-employed and represents them through targeted EU advocacy activities. ESBA also works towards the development of strong independent advocacy and benefits groups in European countries. ESBA is one of the largest organisations based on voluntary membership in Europe. Through its direct membership, associate membership and cooperation agreements, ESBA today represents almost one million small businesses and covers 36 European
Address
Head Office
Clos du Parnasse, 3A
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
6.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date David CARO 11 Nov 2016 30 Mar 2017 David CARO 14 Oct 2015 21 Sep 2016 David CARO 17 Apr 2014 16 Apr 2015 David CARO 29 Mar 2013 28 Mar 2014 David CARO 03 Apr 2012 29 Mar 2013 Mr Gabriel Corte-Real de Carvalho Goucha 01 Jun 2012 02 Apr 2013 David CARO 03 Apr 2012 28 Mar 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Patrick Gibbels (Secretary General)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Patrick Gibbels (Secretary General)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
SEAP - http://www.seap.be/
Member organisations
www.esba-europe.org
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
ESBA relies completely on membership contributions.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
High Level Group on the Reduction of Administrative Burdens (Stoiber Group , discontinued)
SME working group CEN-Cenelec
SBA Follow up
Green Action Plan task force
Trade Contact GroupACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
SME Intergroup
Communication activities
See above. Also, small events and one larger annual event in June.
Other activities
Small Business Act, Single Market Act, Digital Agenda, Accounting and companty Law, EU 2020, Public Procurement, FTT, CESL, Working Time, ADR/ODR, VAT, Access to Finance, administrative burdens, Data Protection, etc, etc.
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 13 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market & SMEs Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet member)
- Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 29 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject E-commerce Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Better regulation and access to finance Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)