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Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25 Fte (4)
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
741179426673-35 First registered on 07 Apr 2017
Goals / Remit
The European Small Business Alliance (ESBA) is a non-party political group, which cares for small business entrepreneurs and the self-employed and represents them through targeted EU advocacy and profiling activities.
In 2023, the European Small Business Alliance celebrated its 25th anniversary as a Brussels based pan-European body representing micro and small companies from across the EU. Today, ESBA is one of the largest organisations based on voluntary membership in Europe. Through its direct membership, associate membership and cooperation agreements, the Alliance now represents almost one million small businesses and covers 35 European countries. The two main pillars in ESBA's lobbying are the two main pressing issues for SMEs across Europe: Access to Finance and Better Regulation.Main EU files targeted
Consumer and marketing law
European Services Card
Internal Market for Goods
Mutual Recognition of Goods
Single Market Information tool
VAT action plan
Digital Single Gateway
Collaborative economy
Start-up Initiative
Standardisation package
Better admin cooperation and a simplification package
TTIP
Eurovignette and EETS
Circular economy
Eco design
Waste Directive
REACH
Posted workers
Work-life balance
Initiative on skills
Pillar of Social Rights
Quality frameworks for apprenticeships and proposal on increased mobility for them
Implementation of Working Time Directive (non-legislative)
Insolvency II
Corporate Taxation
IPR
Online Platforms
Digital Contract Law
Geo-blocking
Parcel Delivery
Cross border VATAddress
Head Office
Regus Business Centre, Box 5, Rond Point Schuman 6
Brussels 1040 - Box 5
BELGIUMEU Office
Regus Business Centre, Box 5, Rond Point Schuman 6
Brussels 1040 - Box 5
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 2 50% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Andrew CAVE 22 Sep 2023 21 Sep 2024 David CARO 20 Jun 2018 01 Jun 2019 David CARO 27 Apr 2017 26 Apr 2018 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
ERENET, Budupest www.erenet.org Associate membership of each other's organisations, non voting.
CEAPME, Brussels, https://www.european-entrepreneurs.org/ Friendship agreement, Associate membership of each other's organisations. Non voting.
Early Warning Europe. www.earlywarningeurope.euMember 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 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant COSME WEgate Project 135,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
ESBA was the Project Lead, for the COSME WEgate Project, for which we engage consultants and sub contractors to deliver. The Project ended 31st January 2023
As at January 2024, we are not involved with any EU Projects
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Network of SME Envoys#E02666#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2666 #Observer #C#SMEs#SME Envoy Sherpas
Groups (European Parliament)
SME Intergroup
Communication activities
Project: WEgate. ended 31st January 2023. COSME
Other activities
None declared
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 04 May 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Exchange on the upcoming update of the Industrial Strategy and its SMEs dimension Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 28 May 2020 Location video-conferencing Subject COVID-19 relief measures Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
- Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 06 Mar 2020 Location Brussels Subject Industrial Strategy, SMEs strategy, Social Dialogue and Pillar of Social Rights, European Semester Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President)
- Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)
- Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists