Overview
Lobbying Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
13
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA)
EU Transparency Register
871659237699-78 First registered on 25 Mar 2020
Goals / Remit
The European Paper Packaging Alliance is a not-for-profit food and foodservice packaging association. Our priorities are to find concrete solutions to increase recycling and to reduce carbon emissions of food and foodservice packaging without compromising food safety and human health protection. EPPA is committed to working with European policymakers to support these common priorities. The Alliance supports evidence-based policy making.
Main EU files targeted
EU Green Deal, Single Use Plastics Directive, ackaging and Packaging Waste Directive and the EU Waste Regulation in general are being followed.
Address
Head Office
Rue Montoyer 40
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Montoyer 40
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 09 Oct 2023
Name Start date End Date Matti Rantanen 22 Feb 2024 21 Feb 2025 Alice PETRUCCI 12 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024 Matti Rantanen 21 Dec 2022 21 Dec 2023 Complementary Information
EPPA has an Executive Committee and members. EPPA has internal working groups. For this moment about 6 persons are activley involved in EPPA, annex to other duties/jobs. 4 of the 6 people are invoved in activites as described under heading 9.
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
Fiber Packaging Europe
Circular Choises Coalition
Together for Sustainable PackagingMember organisations
SEDA International Packaging Group
Huhtamäki
Burgo
Schisler Packaging Solutions
Metsa Board
Mayr-Melnhof Karton
Paper Machinery Corporation
Mc Donalds
Sonoco
RBI
Kellog
Ahlstrom
Medac
Novolex
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
300,000€ - 399,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount apco 100,000€ - 199,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name hague red flag Closed year Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
PUBLICATION:
Ramboll’s new European Study: Single-use paper-based packaging in quick service restaurants is better for the environment than reusable tableware
Study challenges common perception that reusable tableware has lower environmental impacts. It does not!
A study released by the European Paper Packaging Association (EPPA) reveals that single-use paper-based food and drink packaging used in European quick service restaurants is better for the environment than reusable tableware.
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been carried by Ramboll, the independent Danish consultants to the European Commission, and certified by TUV.
The study used current primary data from the paper, packaging and foodservice industries to compare the environmental performance over a year of typical disposable and reusable food and drink containers used in a quick-service restaurant for in-store consumption.
The Ramboll Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) found that, assuming realistic usage over a year, the energy consumption involved in the use phase of reusable plastic and traditional crockery, during in-store or out-sourced washing and drying, outweighed the environmental impact of single-use paper dishes. The baseline report reveals that reusable tableware generated 177% more CO2-e emissions than the paper-based single-use system, consumed 267% more freshwater, produced 132% more fine particulates matter, increased fossil depletion by 238% and terrestrial acidification by 72%.
PUBLICATION:
Report from Professor David McDowell, Emeritus Professor of Food Studies at the Ulster University completed and available.
The European Paper Packaging Alliance’s (EPPA) members innovate and invest to offer sustainable, circular, renewable and recyclable packaging solutions for Europe’s modern food economy. EPPA fully support the EU’s aim to reduce plastics and fossil-based resources, achieve climate-neutrality and sustain healthy ecosystems. EPPA also supports the use of the Waste Hierarchy to achieve the best environmental outcomes, using holistic life cycle thinking.
In 2020 EPPA asked Professor David McDowell, Emeritus Professor of Food Studies at the Ulster University, to conduct a review of the food hygiene challenges of replacing single use food service ware with reusable food service items. The report has now been completed and is available.
It found that the transfer of foodborne disease remains a clear and present hazard to consumers and that “there are greater risks of cross contamination within “circular” reuse systems, than in the current “linear” single use systems.”
The report indeed reviewed the risks of increased foodborne disease associated with any move to the wider use of reusable food service ware and systems in the absence of improved understanding and hygienic practices. Because reuse systems are inherently more complex than single use systems due to multi-location cleaning, sanitation, storage and transport, they lead to greater risks of cross contamination.
Professor McDowell noted that banning or reducing the use of food service disposables, in the absence of radical significant and unprecedented changes in good hygiene practice, will lead to greater persistence and circulation of foodborne pathogens within the human food chain, and increased risks of human foodborne illness in our community.Other activities
EPPA has been established in 2020 and is in a further developing phase.
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Meetings
13 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.
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Date 09 Jan 2024 Location Brussels Subject Agriculture; Trade policy. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Attending - Miriam Garcia Ferrer (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Nov 2022 Location Brussels Subject EU Packaging and Waste Packaging Legislation: upcoming revision. Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Peter van Kemseke (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Nov 2022 Location Online Subject circular economy package and PPWR Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Nov 2022 Location Bruxelles Subject VTC meeting on food packaging Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides Portfolio Health Attending - Ralf Kuhne (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Oct 2022 Location video-call Subject Circular economy and the revision of the EU packaging rules Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Sep 2022 Location BERL Subject PPWD 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 30 May 2022 Location Online Subject Meeting with Fibre Packaging Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - The European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers
- Confederation of European Paper Industries
- Association of European Cartonboard and Carton Manufacturers
- APCO Worldwide
- European Carton Makers Association
- Swedish Forest Industries Federation
- The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment
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Date 03 Mar 2022 Location video-call Subject EU circular economy implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Mar 2022 Location Virtual Subject EU circular economy implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet member)
- Andrea Vettori (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Jan 2022 Location Online Subject Sustainable Products Initiative Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Oct 2021 Location Brussels Subject Discuss Sustainability of paper packaging DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kerstin Jorna (Director-General)
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Date 28 Oct 2020 Location video-call Subject circular economy and single-use products Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Oct 2020 Location online Subject the European Green Deal; the SUP directive. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet member)
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