Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.3 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
National Retail Federation (NRF)
EU Transparency Register
441333332953-73 First registered on 19 Oct 2018
Goals / Remit
The National Retail Federation (“NRF”) is the world’s largest retail trade association, representing discount and department stores, home goods and specialty stores, Main Street merchants, grocers, wholesalers, chain restaurants, and internet retailers from the United States and more than 45 countries. NRF empowers the industry that powers the economy. Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $3.9 trillion to annual GDP and supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 52 million working Americans. For over a century, NRF has been a voice for every retailer and every retail job, educating and communicating the powerful impact retail has on local communities and global economies.
Main EU files targeted
International data flows, implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (ePrivacy), EU - U.S. trade relations, SCCs, Data Act, AI Act
Address
Head Office
1101 New York Ave NW Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20005
UNITED STATESEU Office
1101 New York Ave NW Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20005
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.3
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
While the NRF has three people engaged in activities falling under the register, two spend significantly less than one percent of their working time on such activities and one spends under 10 percent. The FTE should therefore be less than 0.3. However, 10 percent is the minimum that can be chosen for each person involved from the organisation expressed in percentage of working time.
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
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount freshfields bruckhaus deringer llp 10,000€ - 24,999€ freshfields bruckhaus deringer llp 50,000€ - 99,999€ freshfields bruckhaus deringer llp 50,000€ - 99,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name freshfields bruckhaus freshfields bruckhaus deringer llp Closed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
While the NRF has three people engaged in activities falling under the register, two spend significantly less than one percent of their working time on such activities and one spends under 10 percent. The FTE should therefore be less than 0.3. However, 10 percent is the minimum that can be chosen for each person involved from the organisation expressed in percentage of working time.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
The NRF held a member delegation in Brussels in November 2022, which included
meetings with EU officialsOther 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 14 Nov 2023 Location Brussels Subject GDPR, EU-U.S. relations, digital and data protection policy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová Portfolio Values and Transparency Attending - Wojtek Talko (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 15 Oct 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject To discuss EU initiatives of relevance for the global retail industry Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 15 Oct 2020 Location Video conference Subject GDPR, data protection Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
- Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists