Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
14
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE)
EU Transparency Register
57004293853-27 First registered on 12 Jul 2010
Goals / Remit
ACE provides a European platform for beverage carton manufacturers and their European paperboard suppliers to benchmark and profile cartons as renewable, recyclable and low carbon packaging solutions. Engaging with stakeholders and partners seeking high environmental stewardship, it contributes expertise to EU policy, legislation and standard‐setting.
ACE members include beverage carton producers Tetra Pak, SIG Combibloc and Elopak; they develop, manufacture and market systems for the processing, packaging and distribution of food, and produce packaging material at 20 plants in Europe. About 98% of the paperboard used by ACE members in beverage cartons in Europe is produced by Stora Enso in Skoghall (Sweden) and Imatra (Finland), and BillerudKorsnäs in Gävle and Frövi (Sweden), who are also members of ACE. These paper mills and the beverage carton manufacturers in ACE together employ close to 30,000 people worldwide.Main EU files targeted
Directive 94/62/EC Packaging and Packaging Waste
Proposal to revise Directives 2008/98/EC on waste, 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste
Circular Economy Package
Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 laying down the obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market (EU Timber Regulation)
Regulation EC 1935/2004 on food contact materialsAddress
Head Office
Avenue Louise, 250
Bruxelles 1050
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 26 Feb 2016
Name Start date End Date Ms Melina RASO 16 Feb 2023 16 Feb 2024 Ms Annick CARPENTIER 02 Feb 2023 02 Feb 2024 Mr Luca IBELLI 27 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2020 Maja DRCA 22 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Ms Annick CARPENTIER 22 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Sarah Melina SIEBEL 10 Mar 2018 09 Nov 2018 Maja DRCA 31 Aug 2017 23 Aug 2018 Ms Annick CARPENTIER 31 Aug 2017 23 Aug 2018 Sarah Melina SIEBEL 21 Feb 2017 11 Feb 2018 Maja DRCA 30 Sep 2016 31 Aug 2017 Ms Annick CARPENTIER 13 Sep 2016 31 Aug 2017 Sarah Melina SIEBEL 01 Mar 2016 22 Feb 2017 Maja DRCA 20 Aug 2015 21 Aug 2016 Mr Bertil Heerink 24 Apr 2015 22 Apr 2016 Ms Albane Florence Marie SIRAMY 19 Jul 2014 17 Jul 2015 Maja DRCA 26 Aug 2014 20 Aug 2015 Mrs Albane Florence Marie SIRAMY 19 Jul 2014 27 Jan 2015 Mrs Anna Katarina Molin 07 Dec 2013 06 Dec 2014 Mrs Anna Katarina Molin 17 May 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mrs Albane Florence Marie SIRAMY 17 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Maja Drca (Advocacy and Communication Manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Bertil Heerink (Director General)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
European Recovered Paper Council
Member 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)
Expert Group for Forest-based Industries
Food Contact Materials Group (DG Sante)ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
- ACE 20th anniversary celebration on 4th December 2014
- Organisation of a side event at Green Week on 5 June 2014 with WWF and Unilever on sustainable sourcing
- ACE external newsletters with contributions from key external stakeholders
- Annual reporting from Proforest of ACE Chain-of-Custody Global Commitment on wood fiber used in the manufacturing of beverage cartonsOther activities
Policy issues of relevance to the beverage carton industry, including forest policy, circular economy, packaging and waste legislation, environmental product policy, food and product safety legislation.
ACE is involved in the Food SCP round table and the EU Retail Forum.
Meetings
Meetings
14 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 10 Nov 2022 Location video-call Subject Draft proposal of a Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR) Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Caroline Boeshertz (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Oct 2022 Location video-call Subject Circular economy and the revision of the EU packaging rules Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 May 2022 Location Online Subject Meeting with Fibre Packaging Europe Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Jorge Pinto Antunes (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Mar 2022 Location video-call Subject EU circular economy implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Mar 2022 Location Virtual Subject EU circular economy implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius Portfolio Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Attending - Rozalina Petrova (Cabinet member)
- Andrea Vettori (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Jan 2022 Location Online Subject Sustainable Products Initiative Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 May 2021 Location video-call Subject European Green Deal and carton industry’s vision for sustainable packaging Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Green Deal and circular economy Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Jun 2017 Location Brussels Subject Circular economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Nov 2016 Location Brussels Subject Circular Economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)
- Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)
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Date 17 Nov 2015 Location Bruxelles Subject Circular Economy DG Environment Attending - Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)
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Date 15 Oct 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Circular Economy DG Environment Attending - Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)
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Date 22 Jun 2015 Location Berlaymont Subject circular economy package Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Sarah Nelen (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Circular Economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Heidi Jern (Cabinet member)