Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Apr 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
The Free and Fair Post Initiative (FFPI)
EU Transparency Register
145982616387-18 First registered on 06 Mar 2015
Goals / Remit
Reduce the monopoly area reserved to postal incumbents by the review or even the abolishment of the Universal Service Obligation in order to make sure that it is not used as a pretext to oppose further market opening, both in traditional postal services as well as in express and package services.
Make sure that the new European Commission understands the key challenges still existing in the EU postal sector and carries out a proper balanced judgment before adopting any new legislative initiative in the sector.
Increase the FFPI profile as a key stakeholder in the debate about the future of the postal sector in order to have the coalition able to act as a genuine counter balance to the lobbying power of the large incumbent operators.
Provide support to FFPI members to issue campaigns and to build a solid network with other key interested stakeholders, at both EU and national levels.Main EU files targeted
- Implementation of the Third Postal Directive;
- Universal Service Obligation implementation;
- Commission’s roadmap for completing the single market for parcel delivery;
- VAT in the public sector and exemptions in the public interest;
- State aid investigations;
- REIMS agreement;
- ERGP work programme.Address
Head Office
Rue du Luxembourg 22-24
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 2 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Cristina Mariani (Senior Consultant)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Gregoire Poisson (Managing Partner Interel, which acts as FFPI Secretariat)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
- Cycleon is a market leading provider of reverse logistics solutions that meet changing needs in warranty, commercial returns, e-commerce, end-of-life and product recalls. Cycleon has offices in The Netherlands and Singapore.
- InPost is the largest alternative postal operator in Poland. With only 5 years on the market, InPost is actively challenging existing market and regulatory barriers to full postal services liberalisation in Poland. InPost is also the provider and operator of EasyPack automated parcel delivery terminals.
- Janton OY, through its network of subsidiaries and partners, is a leading provider of unaddressed distribution services to households in Finland. Its service covers the whole of Finland with two regular distribution days per week.
- The Mail Competition Forum (MCF) was established in December 2004 to represent the interests of competitors to Royal Mail. The MCF’s objective is to facilitate customer choice through fair, vibrant and sustainable competition within a stable and undistorted UK postal market (see www.mailcompetitionforum.org).
- Nexive (former TNT Post Italy) is the first private postal operator in Italy;
- PostCon (former TNT Post Germany), that has been operating in Germany since the year 2000, specialising in business letter mail services;
- UPS, a multinational leading package delivery company. -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Apr 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other 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 11 Jan 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Competition Situation in the Postal Sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Competition Attending - Claes Bengtsson (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Parcel delivery Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Jasmin Battista (Cabinet member)
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Date 11 Mar 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EU Postal Sector Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Agnieszka Drzewoska (Cabinet member)
- Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
- Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet member)