Overview
Lobbying Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3 Fte (10)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Scotch Whisky Association (SWA)
EU Transparency Register
9201911441-69 First registered on 29 Sep 2008
Goals / Remit
The Scotch Whisky Association’s 94 member companies, including distillers, blenders and brand-owners, account for over 95% of the industry. The Association’s goal is to sustain Scotch Whisky’s place as the world’s leading high-quality spirit drink and its long-term growth worldwide. Scotch Whisky is a high-quality, much-loved and prestigious spirit drink with a global reputation. The Association’s role is to advance the global interests and profile of Scotch Whisky, of its member companies, and of the industry as a whole. The SWA does so by engaging with the full range of industry stakeholders and all levels of government, at home and abroad, by pursuing a competitive and sustainable tax and business environment, by safeguarding the category ‘Scotch Whisky’ against fraud, and by promoting the responsible use of alcohol.
Main EU files targeted
Spirit Drinks Regulation 787/2019; geographical indications; EU food labelling legislation; EU negotiations on free trade agreements (FTAs); EU excise directives; EU alcohol policy; environmental dossiers; participation in Commission consultations; general EU market access/internal market issues.
Address
Head Office
Quartermile 22 Lister Square
Edinburgh EH3 9GL
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Quartermile 22 Lister Square
Edinburgh EH3 9GL
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
10
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 25% 8 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Activities falling within the scope of the Transparency Register are mainly pursued by the Global Regulatory Affairs and International teams.
Members of other SWA teams (Industry, Legal, Strategy and Communications) occasionally engage in activities covered by the register to a small degree (in some cases less than 5% of overall working time), hence the actual FTE is less than 3 in practice.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
We are a member of spiritsEUROPE, the representative body for the spirits industry at European level. We are also a member of oriGInEU.
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
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Wine, spirit and foodstuffs
Communication activities
A range of documents and publications are made available on the SWA’s website.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
6 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 17 Jul 2019 Location Brussels Subject SWA presented their position on EU-US Trade retaliation list Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - James Morrison (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Duty Fraud Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - James Morrison (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Consultation on US S 232 Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Organised Crime and Duty Fraud Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - James Morrison (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Apr 2018 Location Birmingham Subject Rural Affairs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 18 Feb 2015 Location Brussels Subject Various ongoing trade negotiations Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
- Christian Burgsmueller (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists