Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
8
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Branded Clothing Association (EBCA)
EU Transparency Register
61866543669-46 First registered on 25 May 2010
Goals / Remit
The European Branded Clothing Association (EBCA) is a coalition of European retail clothing brands. Between us we represent around 60 brands and employ over 160,000 people in our European operations.
The Association provides the first collective and exclusive voice for retail clothing brands in Europe. Drawing upon a balanced and representative membership present in a range of EU member states, EBCA seeks to serve as a sounding-board for EU policy-makers as they develop trade policy that seeks to balance the interests of all Europeans in an increasingly global environment.
EBCA showcases the contribution of clothing retailers to European competitiveness and employment, and seeks to ensure a more predictable business environment, a positive trade agenda, and a better deal for European consumers.Main EU files targeted
As a coalition of European retail clothing brands with both a European and global presence, EBCA’s main activities focus on ensuring an open trade agenda and fair market access at both bilateral and multilateral levels.
As a consequence, the subject matter of EBCA’s outreach efforts consists of the following:
• Free, fair and sustainable trade;
• Ambitious yet feasible due diligence and sustainable corporate governance frameworks;
• Robust trade agreements with third countries;
• Simplified Rules of Origin during the negotiation of free trade agreements;
• A well-functioning multilateral trading system;
• Market access for European companies in third countries;
• Trade facilitation through the harmonization of customs procedures in each member state, including the UK post-Brexit;
• Effective protection of intellectual property rules;
• An efficient, equitable and user-friendly customs-valuation system.Address
Head Office
Rue Belliard, 40c/o FleishmanHillard
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Belliard, 40c/o FleishmanHillard
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 05 Jan 2025
Name Start date End Date Isabelle MAURIZI 27 Aug 2024 26 Aug 2025 Complementary Information
None declared
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
None declared
Member organisations
http://www.ebca-europe.org/about-ebca/our-members.html
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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
Name Amount hanover communications 100,000€ - 199,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name fleishman-hillard Closed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Trade Contact Group#E02134#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2134 #MEMBER #C#IndustryCommission Expert Group on Textile Names and Labelling#E02773#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2773 #OBSERVER #C#Industry
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
8 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 24 May 2023 Location Brussels Subject Trade Policy strategy, free trade agreements, Generalised Scheme of preferences, trade and sustainable development Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Nov 2022 Location BERL Subject Forced labour product ban, Generalised Scheme of Preferences Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 May 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Enforcement and implementation of trade agreements Anti-coercion instrument Trade negotiations with Mexico and Mercosur and South Asia Counterfeiting Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Apr 2022 Location video-conference Subject Trade and sustainable development, due diligence, forced labour, Generalised Scheme of Preference Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 May 2021 Location virtual Subject - open strategic autonomy - textile industry and trade - global supply chains - recover from covid-19 crisis Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Zaneta Vegnere (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 May 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium. Subject Possibilities to reform rules of origin, and market access challenges in Indonesia Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject Latest developments in the field. Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Leon Delvaux (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Apr 2015 Location Brussels Subject Trade policy priorities of the retail clothing sector Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)