Overview
Lobbying Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.75 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Związek Banków Polskich (ZBP)
EU Transparency Register
01623802004-63 First registered on 15 Jul 2009
Goals / Remit
Self-government organization of banks, established in 1991, founded on the basis of Chambers of Commerce Act. Membership in the ZBP is voluntary and open for all banks established under the Polish law as well as for foreign credit institutions branches operating in the Republic of Poland.
The statutory tasks of the Association include:
- Representing and protecting common interests of member banks, inter alia with respect to legal regulations related to banking
- Delegating representatives to participate in the work of banking operations advisory and evaluating bodies
- Participating in legislative work of legislatory commissions of the Sejm (the Parliament lower chamber) and the Senate
- Cooperating with the National Bank of Poland, the government and the competent ministries in the area of operation of legal regulations applicable to the Polish banking system
- Organizing the exchange of information between banks
- Promoting of the banking sector and financial servicesMain EU files targeted
The Polish Bank Association activity focuses on several current priorities of the European Commission like the Investment Plan or Capital Market Union and in continuation of work in following projects: CRR/CRD, SSM, PSD3, CCD2, CMDI but also in emerging main topics such as Sustainable Finance, development of digital market and cyber security. Moreover, we are interested in legislative processes related to retail financial services.
Address
Head Office
Ulica Kruczkowskiego 8
Warszawa 00-380
POLANDEU Office
Ulica Kruczkowskiego 8
Warszawa 00-380
POLANDWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 50% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Piotr Gałązka 01 Jul 2024 30 Jun 2025 Piotr GALAZKA 18 Jul 2023 17 Jul 2024 Piotr GALAZKA 08 Jul 2022 08 Jul 2023 Piotr GALAZKA 10 Jul 2021 08 Jul 2022 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 12 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 15 Feb 2019 12 Feb 2020 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 15 Feb 2018 15 Feb 2019 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 04 Jan 2017 31 Dec 2017 Mr DAMIAN WYRZYKOWSKI 19 Jul 2016 14 Jul 2017 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 13 Jan 2016 04 Jan 2017 Mr SZYMON STELLMASZYK 13 Jan 2016 13 Jan 2017 Mr DAMIAN WYRZYKOWSKI 07 Jul 2015 03 Jul 2016 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 13 Jan 2015 08 Jan 2016 Mr SZYMON STELLMASZYK 22 Aug 2014 14 Aug 2015 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 11 Jul 2014 10 Jan 2015 Mr PIOTR GAŁĄZKA 06 Feb 2014 11 Jul 2014 Complementary Information
The biggest part of activities associated with the described activities carried out at the national level in connection with consulting and implementation of EU projects.
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
Member of:
- the European Banking Federation (www.ebf.eu)
- ICC Polska (www.iccpolska.pl)
- International Association of Banking Security (globalibsa.org/)
- European Payments Council (www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/)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
300,000€ - 399,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Other financial info
A subvention from The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (ca PLN 1.000.000) is dedicated to the National Contact Point for Financial Instruments of the EU Programs for the sole purpose of EU instruments promotion for entrepreneurs in financial and non-financial sectors - not for the Association's tasks.
One fifth of the ZBP income comes from the members fees. The other part is from the economic activities related to the implementation of statutory aims. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Consultations among Members (Banks) on the Investment Plan, CMU and well known legislative proposals like CRR/CRD, SSM, SRM, PSD3, MiFIR/MiFID II, CCD2, CMDI. The ZBP organises conferences and meetings devoted to these subjects.
There is also a special and very active unit within the Association called The National Contact Point for Financial Instruments of the EU Programmes for external partners.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
5 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 12 Oct 2023 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with with Vice-President and Technnical Director of the Association of Polish Banks Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Portfolio Agriculture Attending - Maciej Golubiewski (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Feb 2023 Location Brussels Subject Mortgage loans DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)
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Date 07 Jul 2022 Location Brussels - Virtual Subject Topic: Polish loans in foreign currency (CHF) and the UCTD Directive. Eu Commission made it clear that we do not interfere in cases before the ECJ and with the SJ work in this regard. Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Valeria Miceli (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 Jun 2022 Location Brussels Subject Financial inclusion, financial literacy, macroeconomic context. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
- Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner)
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Date 31 Aug 2017 Location Brussels Subject PSD2 Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Elina Melngaile (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists