Overview
Lobbying Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
11
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
EUROPEAN SERVICES FORUM (ESF)
EU Transparency Register
3562594969-02 First registered on 15 Jan 2009
Goals / Remit
Members of the European Services Forum have adopted the following Set of principles:
1. In the coming decades, issues related to international trade in services will present challenges to the multilateral trading system that at least equal, in importance and difficulty, tariff and non-tariff barriers to the development of trade in goods.
2. While bilateral and regional agreements and initiatives can play a useful supportive role, a firm and widely supported multilateral agreement remains the ultimate goal of services negotiations within the WTO.
3. Services and other services-related issues (such as investment and public procurement) should be negotiated in all international trade negotiations, with as much emphasis that the one given to trade in goods.
4. International trade in services negotiations should create much improved opportunities for profitable international business. To that end, they should:
• be ambitious in their goals for real liberalisation, (...)Main EU files targeted
European Commission Annual Work Programme and Roadmaps
European Commission Impact Assessment webpage
European Commission Green Deal impact on Trade Policy,
European Parliament Legislative Observatory
EUR-Lex database
Work in Progress document - by Parliamentary committees
DG Trade activities - Trade Policy Review
Trade negotiations with Australia, India, Indonesia, Thailand,Philippines, ASEAN, etc.
Follow up of Implementation of EU FTAs, inc. EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement;
Follow up of ratification process of FTA with Mercosur, Revision of FTA with Mexico, CAI with China
WTO Joint Statement Initiatives on Services Domestic Regulation; E-Commerce; Investment Facilitation, etc.
WTO Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions
WTO Reform
EU Digital trade agenda (DMA, DSA, DGA, Data Act, impact on Artificial Intelligence, EU Cloud Services certification scheme, etc.)Address
Head Office
Avenue de Cortenbergh, 168
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Avenue de Cortenbergh, 168
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Kerneis Pascal Goulven Marie 24 Sep 2024 23 Sep 2025 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 22 Mar 2023 22 Mar 2024 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 30 Oct 2021 29 Oct 2022 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 12 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 24 Mar 2018 23 Mar 2019 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 30 Mar 2017 24 Mar 2018 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 14 Apr 2016 30 Mar 2017 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 20 May 2015 14 Apr 2016 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 05 Jun 2014 20 May 2015 Mr Pascal KERNEIS 04 May 2013 03 May 2014 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
1)ESF works closely with BUSINESSEUROPE (https://www.businesseurope.eu/) for the daily operations, as well as for the legal, social and fiscal matters.
2)ESF is member of the informal "Global Services Coalition" (GSC), a loose gathering of similar coalitions of services industries looking at international trade in services negotiations.
4) ESF has regular contacts with Think Tanks that work on trade policy issues, like ECIPE, CEPS, EIAS.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
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
200,000€ - 299,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Other financial info
All revenues of ESF derive from annual membership fees.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Our position papers, press releases and other reports are published on our website:
http://www.esf.be/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
11 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 01 Mar 2023 Location Brussels Subject Bilateral trade agenda, WTO e-commerce Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Kevin Keary (Cabinet member)
- Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject State of play on key EU trade policy priorities; trade policy pillar of the Green Deal Industrial Plan Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Tomas Baert (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Importance of services in the economie and trade agreements Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Pedro Velasco Martins (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject Exchange on EU trade policy in the field of services Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Xavier Coget (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Dec 2017 Location Brussels Subject Data Flows in Trade Agreements Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject Trade in services Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)
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Date 26 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Belgium Subject Commissioners possible participation at a future event Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Jon Nyman (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject digital trade Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
- Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject EU's trade strategy; TTIP Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet member)
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Date 31 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject New trade policy strategy, TTIP, TiSA and other bilateral negotiations DG Trade Attending - Jean-Luc Demarty (Director-General)
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Date 02 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Speech at Business Alliance for TTIP's Welcome Reception Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Cecilia Malmström (Commissioner)
- Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists