Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
21
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
MEDIASET S.p.A.
EU Transparency Register
91471238809-21 First registered on 22 May 2012
Goals / Remit
Founded in 1978, Mediaset S.p.A. is an integrated multi-platform TV operator (free/pay, linear and non-linear) and a multinational media group that has been listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1996. Its core business is commercial television broadcasting in Italy and Spain. As one of Europe’s most innovative multimedia production and distribution groups, Mediaset’s total employees amount to 5,559 (4.,299 in Italy and 1,260 in Spain) as of 31 December 2014.
In Italy, Mediaset Group’s free to air offering currently consists of 11 channels (3 long-standing general interest channels – Canale 5, Italia 1, Rete 4 – and 8 thematic and semi-generalist channels - Boing, Cartoonito, Iris, La 5, Mediaset Extra, Italia 2, Top Crime and TgCom 24).
Mediaset Premium, a pay linear service launched in 2005, provides customers with film channels, TV series, live football, children's programmes and documentaries. Premium Play is offered as a complementary VOD service to Mediaset premium subscribers. As of 1 December 2014, all of the pay TV activities have been transferred to a new company Mediaset Premium S.p.A., owned by Mediaset, through R.T.I., and Telefonica (11,11% stake).
Through its fully-owned subsidiary R.T.I. S.p.A., Mediaset owns the most important television rights library in Italy, one of the largest in Europe.
The Group’s free and pay linear TV offering is delivered through digital multiplexes owned by the subsidiary Elettronica Industriale, which manages contribution traffic to and from the various production centres of the parent company R.T.I. S.p.A. and Mediaset Premium S.p.A., using the infrastructure and services provided by EI Towers S.p.A., a 40.1% - owned subsidiary of the Group.
On the internet and, specifically through the enhancement of and greater focus on activities linked to mobile devices, in 2014 Mediaset, through RTI Interactive Media, generated around 3 billion multimedia pages via the overall set of the properties managed: VideoMediaset video portal (www.video.mediaset.it), which enables users to access the vast majority of Mediaset free-to-air schedule both in full and clip mode (full episodes and thousands of TV programme clips, respectively), as well as ad-hoc programmes; the www.tgcom24.it all news website; the www.SportMediaset.it website; the www.meteo.it website.
In 2013, the Mediaset Group launched Infinity: an innovative OTT platform that offers its customers the ability to access streaming from a catalogue of over 5000 titles including thousands of movies, TV series, dramas and TV programmes. On Infinity, all content is accessible in streaming and is therefore always available on-demand, without any time or schedule restrictions, on over 400 different device models, including: PC, Mac, Android tablet, iPad, smart TV, Smart phone, Playstation, XBOX and digital terrestrial decoders. Over the next year, the range of devices on which Infinity will be made available will be further expanded.
Mediaset fully owns Medusa Film S.p.A., a major distribution company in Italy which produces and distributes Italian and foreign films in Italy, and is involved in cinema releases and the sale of television rights in all their various forms. In 2014 Medusa produced The Great Beauty, Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.
In Spain, Mediaset has a controlling interest (46% share) in Mediaset España Comunicación S.A., the holding company of the Spanish television group that owns the Telecinco television network, which began broadcasting in 1990.
Mediaset España is one of the most profitable groups in the sector in Europe and the leading broadcaster in Spain in terms of viewers and advertising share with two main general interest channels (Telecinco and Cuatro) and a bouquet of six free-to-air thematic channels.
Mediaset España is listed on the stock exchanges of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia.Main EU files targeted
• Audiovisuel et médias
• Concurrence
• Consommateurs
• Culture
• Éducation
• Emploi et affaires sociales
• Entreprises
• Fiscalité
• Jeunesse
• Justice et droits fondamentaux
• Marché intérieur
• Recherche et technologie
• Relations extérieures
• Sécurité alimentaire
• Société de l'information
• SportAddress
Head Office
Via Paleocapa, 3
Milan 20121
ITALYEU Office
rue des Chartreux 19
Bruxelles 1000
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 75% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Apr 2015
Name Start date End Date Zoe PELLEGRINI 15 Sep 2023 13 Sep 2024 Giovanna LAZZARINI 15 Sep 2023 13 Sep 2024 Carolina LORENZON 15 Sep 2023 13 Sep 2024 Zoe PELLEGRINI 21 Oct 2022 15 Sep 2023 Giovanna LAZZARINI 21 Oct 2022 15 Sep 2023 Carolina LORENZON 20 Oct 2022 15 Sep 2023 Zoe PELLEGRINI 21 Oct 2021 21 Oct 2022 Ms Zoe PELLIGRINI 21 Oct 2021 19 Oct 2022 Giovanna LAZZARINI 21 Oct 2021 21 Oct 2022 Carolina LORENZON 20 Oct 2021 20 Oct 2022 Carolina LORENZON 04 Jun 2019 30 May 2020 Giovanna LAZZARINI 15 Mar 2019 14 Mar 2020 Ms Zoe PELLIGRINI 15 Mar 2019 14 Mar 2020 Carolina LORENZON 29 Jun 2018 04 Jun 2019 Giovanna LAZZARINI 06 Apr 2018 15 Mar 2019 Ms Zoe PELLIGRINI 06 Apr 2018 15 Mar 2019 Ms Zoe PELLIGRINI 24 Jan 2018 23 Feb 2018 Carolina LORENZON 20 Jul 2017 29 Jun 2018 Ms Zoe PELLIGRINI 20 Jul 2017 18 Jan 2018 Ms Evagelia Maria Elvira MORANA 05 Nov 2016 22 Dec 2016 Carolina LORENZON 22 Aug 2016 21 Jul 2017 Giovanna LAZZARINI 22 Aug 2016 18 Aug 2017 LODOVICO BENVENUTI 22 Aug 2016 10 Jun 2017 Ms Evagelia Maria Elvira MORANA 13 May 2016 31 Oct 2016 Carolina LORENZON 31 Jul 2015 29 Jul 2016 Giovanna LAZZARINI 31 Jul 2015 29 Jul 2016 LODOVICO BENVENUTI 31 Jul 2015 29 Jul 2016 Carolina LORENZON 17 Jul 2014 15 Jul 2015 Giovanna LAZZARINI 17 Jul 2014 15 Jul 2015 Carolina LORENZON 17 Jul 2014 27 Jan 2015 Giovanna LAZZARINI 17 Jul 2014 27 Jan 2015 LODOVICO BENVENUTI 16 Jul 2014 14 Jul 2015 Carolina LORENZON 24 Jul 2013 17 Jul 2014 Giovanna LAZZARINI 24 Jul 2013 17 Jul 2014 Mr Lodovico BENVENUTI ARBORIO DI GATTINARA 24 Jul 2013 23 Jul 2014 Carolina LORENZON 07 Jun 2012 01 Jul 2013 LODOVICO BENVENUTI 07 Jun 2012 01 Jul 2013 Giovanna LAZZARINI 06 Jun 2012 01 Jul 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Carolina Lorenzon (Director, International Affairs)
Person with legal responsibility
Gina Nieri (Member of the Board)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Association of Commercial Television in Europe – ACT
CONFINDUSTRIA RADIO TV - CRTV
Association of Television and Radio sales houses – EGTA
Broadcast Networks Europe – BNE
Creative Media Business Alliance - CMBAMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
CEO coalition to make the internet a Better Place for Kids
High Level Group on UHF
NoneACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
Creative Industries
Digital Agenda
(Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Reform)Communication activities
None
Other activities
Green Paper on the online distribution of audiovisual works, Radio Spectrum Policy Programme, Communication on Net Neutrality, Communication on E-Commerce and online services, Data Protection Regulation proposal, Media Programme/Creative Europe, Digital Agenda, Enforcement Directive, TTIP, DSM.
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Meetings
21 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 06 Mar 2024 Location Brussels Subject Labour and skills shortages, the EU's social targets, the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Attending - Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
- Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - Cattaneo Zanetto & Co.
- Leonardo S.p.A.
- Confindustria Cuneo - Unione Industriale della Provincia
- UTOPIA LAB S.R.L.
- TIM S.p.A.
- Confartigianato Imprese
- WITHUB SPA
- Automobile Club d'Italia
- Ernst & Young Core Business Services BV
- Intesa Sanpaolo
- Piaggio & C. S.p.A.
- Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies
- GROUPE D'INITIATIVE ITALIENNE
- ENEL SpA
- Unioncamere Europa asbl
- Snam S.p.A.
- FERROVIE DELLO STATO ITALIANE S.p.A.
- ianus
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Date 30 Jun 2022 Location Videoconference Subject EMFA Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Renate Nikolay (Cabinet member)
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Date 29 Jun 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Entry into force of DMA; Media Freedom Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Apr 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Economic impact of COVID-19 Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 03 Apr 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Impact du COVID-19 sur le secteur audiovisuel et media Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Gaelle Garnier (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 06 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject Copyright Directive - Fake news/Disinformation DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 06 Sep 2018 Location Brussels Subject Copyright Directive - Fake news/Disinformation DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 10 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 10 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 28 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Spectrum policy DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 14 Oct 2016 Location Brussels Subject Spectrum policy DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 29 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Spectrum, UHF band Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
- Kamila Kloc (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 03 Feb 2016 Location BXL Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject Copyright DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 28 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM: copyright and AVMS review DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 28 Oct 2015 Location Brussels Subject Copyright DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 15 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM Communication Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Jasmin Battista (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
- Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 08 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Dec 2014 Location Brussels Subject Digital economy and society DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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