Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
15
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
RTL Group (RTL)
EU Transparency Register
59267165790-45 First registered on 05 May 2011
Goals / Remit
RTL Group is a leader across broadcast, content and digital, with interests in 60 television channels, eight video-on-demand platforms and 30 radio stations. RTL Group also produces content throughout the world and owns several rapidly growing digital video businesses. The television portfolio of Europe’s largest broadcaster includes RTL Television in Germany, M6 in France, the RTL channels in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia, Hungary and Antena 3 in Spain. RTL Group’s families of TV channels are either the number one or number two in eight European countries. The Group’s flagship radio station is RTL in France, and it also owns or has interests in other stations in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg. RTL Group’s content production arm, Fremantle, is one of the largest international creators, producers and distributors of scripted and unscripted content in the world. Fremantle has an international network of production teams, companies and labels in over 30 countries, producing over 12,700 hours of original programming and distributing over 20,000 hours of content worldwide. Combining the on-demand services of its broadcasters, the multi-platform networks BroadbandTV, Divimove, United Screens and Fremantle’s more than 300 YouTube channels, RTL Group has become the leading European media company in online video. RTL Group also owns the advanced video ad serving platform SpotX. For more information, please visit RTLGroup.com
Main EU files targeted
- Our main focus is the Digital Single Market
- Review of EU copyright rules/online transmissions/intellectual property
- AVMS Directive implementation
- Online Platform regulation
- Data protection reform/e-privacy
- Advertising regulation
- Online disinformation/fake news
- Access to data
- Competition policyAddress
Head Office
Boulevard Pierre Frieden, 43
Luxembourg 1543
LUXEMBOURGEU Office
Avenue des Gaulois, 3
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75
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 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 23 Aug 2019 22 Aug 2020 Erard GILLES 18 Apr 2019 18 Apr 2020 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 28 Aug 2018 23 Aug 2019 Mr Theofanis Kakarnias 29 Mar 2018 11 Jan 2019 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 06 Sep 2017 28 Aug 2018 Mr Theofanis Kakarnias 21 Feb 2017 02 Feb 2018 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 05 Sep 2016 31 Aug 2017 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 12 Sep 2015 06 Sep 2016 Bernardo Dores Martins de Matos 30 May 2015 31 Mar 2016 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 30 Sep 2014 12 Sep 2015 Bernardo Dores Martins de Matos 12 Jun 2014 30 May 2015 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 23 Oct 2013 30 Sep 2014 Bernardo Dores Martins de Matos 14 May 2013 09 May 2014 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 07 Nov 2012 23 Oct 2013 Ms Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 17 Jan 2012 07 Nov 2012 Mrs Linda Teresa TRYTSMAN - GRAY 17 Jan 2012 03 Nov 2012 Complementary Information
Lyn Trytsman-Gray, Senior Vice President European Affairs
Erard Gilles, European Affairs Policy ManagerPerson 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
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Association of Commercial Television in Europe (18574111503-28), European Policy Centre (89632641000-47), Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (43167137250-27), European Broadcasting Union (93288301615-56), Association of Television and Radio Sales Houses (1977807375-62)
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
187,000 € (Source: Project: "Compelling Reasons to Vote" - multiannual workprogramme for grants in the area of communication (2016-2019), European Parliament)
Other financial info
The calculation of costs of activities falling under the scope of the register is made according to the EU's Transparency Register Compliance Guidelines (http://europa.eu/transparency-register/pdf/guideline_en.pdf) and the corresponding guidelines of the Society of European Affairs Professionals (SEAP). It does not include association membership fees as the associations of which RTL Group is a member are registered.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Occasional organisation of informal debates on EU policy issues of interest. Participation in events organised by inter alia ACT and egta. Regular attendance at events on issues of interest.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
15 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 07 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject AVMSD, Copyright, ePrivacy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 10 Nov 2017 Location Brussels Subject broadcasting regulation and copyright directive Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Manuel Mateo-Goyet (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Sep 2017 Location Berlin Subject copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 13 Jul 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Pauline Rouch (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Jun 2017 Location Brussels Subject Better internet for kids Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Laure Chapuis-Kombos (Cabinet member)
- Andrus Ansip (Vice-President)
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Date 22 May 2017 Location BXL Subject DSM Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Anna Herold (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Apr 2016 Location Brussels Subject Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject AVMSD 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)
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Date 11 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM/AVMS/MEDIA DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 03 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject New College and Better Regulation DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Robert Madelin (Director-General)
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Date 29 Apr 2015 Location Brussels Subject Meeting on Digital Single Market Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Jonathan Michael Hill (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Apr 2015 Location Rust, Germany Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 10 Apr 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Hungarian advertising tax Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Apr 2015 Location Brussels Subject Advertising tax DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)