Overview
Lobbying Costs
400,000€ - 499,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA)
EU Transparency Register
0138855852-93 First registered on 22 Dec 2008
Goals / Remit
Founded in 1990, the European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA) represents the interests of the smaller and mid-sized European manufacturers, distributors and importers of fine-cut tobacco, pipe tobacco, traditional nasal snuff tobacco and chewing tobacco and actively engages with relevant stakeholders.
The 45 members of ESTA include small and mid sized companies, many family owned, as well as member associations from the European Union Member States as well as from Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Smoking tobacco comprises approximately 17% of the total sales of tobacco products in the European Union: around 16% for fine-cut tobacco and less than 1% for pipe tobacco.Main EU files targeted
Implementation of 2014 Tobacco Products Directive (IAs and DAs)
Review of the 2014 Tobacco Products Directive (Tobacco Control Acquis)
Revision of the Directive on Tobacco Excise Duty
EU Position on WHO FCTC Guidelines
Customs Unions and EMCS
Environmental and social responsibility policies
Trade and Market Access
Anti-Illicit Trade Agreements for Tobacco
Better Regulation
Transparency RulesAddress
Head Office
Rue Belliard 205
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Belliard 205
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 19 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date William MEYER 11 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 11 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Ms Anna ZACHARIADOU 03 Dec 2021 03 Dec 2022 William MEYER 28 Oct 2021 28 Oct 2022 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 07 Jul 2020 07 Jul 2021 Vincenzo VIOLA 07 Jul 2020 07 Jul 2021 William MEYER 17 Dec 2019 17 Dec 2020 Vincenzo VIOLA 03 Jul 2019 03 Jul 2020 William MEYER 10 Oct 2018 10 Oct 2019 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 27 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 William MEYER 20 Jul 2017 13 Jul 2018 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 20 Mar 2017 21 Feb 2018 Federica ZOLLA 20 Mar 2017 03 Mar 2018 William MEYER 23 Apr 2016 22 Apr 2017 Mr Paul Wujek 23 Apr 2016 24 Jan 2017 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 07 Jan 2016 05 Jan 2017 Vlad OLTEANU 21 Aug 2015 07 Jan 2016 Vlad OLTEANU 07 Aug 2014 04 Aug 2015 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 20 May 2014 05 Jun 2015 Ms Sandra DEROCLE 20 May 2014 05 Jun 2015 Jonathan Goff 04 Mar 2014 03 Mar 2015 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 06 Mar 2013 05 Mar 2014 Ms Sandra DEROCLE 28 Feb 2013 27 Feb 2014 Jonathan Goff 28 Feb 2013 27 Feb 2014 Jonathan Goff 28 Mar 2012 28 Feb 2013 Jonathan Goff 28 Mar 2012 27 Feb 2013 Peter Marcel VAN DER MARK 24 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013 Mrs Sandra DEROCLE 24 Jan 2012 08 Feb 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
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
Coresta (www.coresta.org)
ISO (www.iso.org)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
400,000€ - 499,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
400,000€ - 499,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Trade Contact Group#E02134#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2134 #MEMBER #C#IndustryExcise Contact Group #E02806#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2806 #MEMBER #C#Civil society#Employees/workers#Finance
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
ESTA is active on social media, and ESTA Tweets regularly about tobacco policy and tobacco legislation. ESTA also contacts new and regular media to present its opinion.
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 18 May 2022 Location Brussels Subject Videoconference - Stakeholder event to gather views on the upcoming revision of the tobacco taxation directive DG Taxation and Customs Union Attending - Gerassimos Thomas (Director-General)
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