Overview
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
V V G B Advocaten
EU Transparency Register
025843424137-75 First registered on 27 Oct 2016
Goals / Remit
VVGB is an independent international law firm advising companies, industry associations and governments on EU, trade, competition, corporate and tax law. in addition to providing legal services for clients, VVGB also regularly conducts research for universities and other non-profit organizations.
Main EU files targeted
VVGB is active in the fields of EU trade defence, trade litigation, and general trade policy with a focus on policies and measures by the Commission's DG Trade and DG Taxud. Specific EU initiatives targeted by VVGB over the past year include:
- The legislative adoption of Regulation (EU) 2017/2321 amending the EU's anti-dumping and anti-subsidy legislation in order to provide, among other things, for a new anti-dumping methodology.
- The legislative adoption of Regulation (EU) 2018/825 modernizing the EU's basic anti-dumping and anti-subsidy regulations.
- The ongoing safeguard investigation by the Commission into imports of steel.
- The ongoing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations by the Commission into imports of tyres for buses or lorries (new and retreated) from China.
- The initiation (and subsequent termination) by the Commission of an anti-dumping investigation into imports of silicon metal from Bosnia Herzegovina and Brazil.
- The publication by the Commission of a country report on significant distortions in the economy of China for the purpose of trade defence investigations.
- The initiation (and subsequent termination) by the Commission of an anti-dumping investigation into imports of low carbon ferro-chrome from China, Russia and Turkey.Address
Head Office
Place des Barricades 13
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Folkert Graafsma (Partner)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Folkert Graafsma (Partner)
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Categories
Category
I - Professional consultancies/law firms/self-employed consultants
Subcategory
Law firms
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Networking
Affiliation
www.vvgb-law.com
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
None declared
Other financial info
We once had occasion to meet the Cabinet of Commissioner Malmstrom relating to TDI activities. We also once had the occasion to meet MEP Fjellner relating to TDI activities. These meetings were not for clients but in the context of our own professional interest and at our own expense. We may need to meet these persons again in the future and therefore we are declaring ourselves in the transparency register.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 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 23 Nov 2016 Location Brussels Subject How to increase transparency in TDI Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström Portfolio Trade Attending - Pedro Velasco Martins (Cabinet member)
- Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
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