Overview
Lobbying Costs
2,000,000€ - 2,249,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
JT International (JTI)
EU Transparency Register
71175716023-03 First registered on 14 Jun 2011
Goals / Remit
We were formed in 1999 when our parent company JT Group acquired the non-US operations of R.J. Reynolds. Since then, our international workforce has driven two decades of growth.
Today, we have more than 45,000 employees driving our success all over the world. Our mission is to nurture our internationally recognized brand roster while leading the way in Reduced-Risk Products and new ways of doing business.
We are committed to making our business not only the fastest growing of its kind, but also the most innovative and sustainably run.
JTI recognizes that cigarettes are a legal but controversial product. People smoke for pleasure but there are real risks that come with that pleasure. Accordingly, JTI believes that tobacco products should be appropriately regulated.
We believe in the freedom of adults to choose whether they smoke or not. As much as we value and believe in freedom of choice for adults, we also recognize the importance of making informed decisions.Main EU files targeted
• Directive 2014/40/EU: of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC
• Directive 2011/64/EC on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco (codification) and Directive 2008/118/EC concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC.
• The Trademark Directive (2008/95/EC) and the Community Trademark Regulation (207/2009/EC).
• Better Regulation
• International FTAs
• Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste
• Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste
• Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment
• Proposal for an Inter-Institutional agreement on a mandatory Transparency Register, COM(2016)0627Address
Head Office
Rue Kazem Radjavi 8
Geneva 1202
SWITZERLANDEU Office
rue du Commerce 31
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 18 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Philipp HANSEN 27 Sep 2024 27 Sep 2025 Francesco Gaglioppa 19 Apr 2024 19 Apr 2026 Kiyoshi Iwai 19 Apr 2024 19 Apr 2026 Mathilde BRASSEUR 28 Apr 2023 27 Apr 2024 Efi ANASTASIOU 27 Sep 2023 27 Sep 2024 Philipp HANSEN 27 Sep 2023 27 Sep 2024 Ksenija Barysiene 27 Sep 2023 27 Sep 2024 Mr Kiyoshi IWAY 20 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Mr Francesco GAGLIOPPA 20 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024 Ksenija Barysiene 04 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Ms Adriana VALLE 01 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Efi ANASTASIOU 01 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Philipp HANSEN 01 Oct 2022 27 Sep 2023 Ms Schamy MILLIMONO 22 Sep 2022 19 Apr 2023 Miroslaw Gajewski 26 Nov 2021 20 May 2022 Ms Adriana VALLE 23 Oct 2021 01 Oct 2022 Efi ANASTASIOU 28 Sep 2021 28 Sep 2022 Philipp HANSEN 28 Sep 2021 28 Sep 2022 Ksenija Barysiene 28 Sep 2021 28 Sep 2022 Mr Hendrik Matthias BIERGANS 18 Oct 2019 18 Apr 2020 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 29 Jun 2019 28 Feb 2020 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 29 Jun 2019 28 Feb 2020 Vlad OLTEANU 28 Mar 2019 28 Mar 2020 Ms Andreea Harna 27 Mar 2019 28 Feb 2020 Ksenija Barysiene 15 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Ms Delia Andreea VOICA 15 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Mr Brian Dunphy 19 May 2018 18 May 2019 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 03 May 2018 03 May 2019 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 03 May 2018 03 May 2019 Vlad OLTEANU 30 Jan 2018 30 Jan 2019 Ms Delia Andreea VOICA 01 Oct 2017 15 Sep 2018 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 12 May 2017 03 May 2018 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 12 May 2017 03 May 2018 Vlad OLTEANU 22 Dec 2016 21 Dec 2017 Ksenija Barysiene 22 Dec 2016 21 Dec 2017 Ms Andreea Harna 10 Nov 2016 09 Nov 2017 Mr Brian Dunphy 08 Nov 2016 05 Nov 2017 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 24 May 2016 13 May 2017 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 24 May 2016 13 May 2017 Anastasia BAKOLA 24 May 2016 19 Nov 2016 Vlad OLTEANU 07 Jan 2016 22 Dec 2016 Mr Brian Dunphy 11 Nov 2015 08 Nov 2016 Mr Radu Colonescu 13 Jun 2015 06 Jan 2016 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 11 Jun 2015 09 Jun 2016 Anastasia BAKOLA 11 Jun 2015 08 Jun 2016 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 10 Jun 2015 24 May 2016 Anastasia BAKOLA 07 Jun 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mr Radu Colonescu 03 Jul 2014 13 Jun 2015 Mr Michael Eduard Hack 11 Jun 2014 06 Jun 2015 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 07 Jun 2014 05 Jun 2015 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 07 Jun 2014 05 Jun 2015 Anastasia BAKOLA 07 Jun 2014 27 Jan 2015 Michael HACK 07 Jun 2013 06 Jun 2014 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 11 Jun 2013 08 Jun 2014 Mr Benedict Robert James TOWNSEND 07 Jun 2013 06 Jun 2014 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 27 Oct 2012 17 Jun 2013 Michael HACK 25 Oct 2012 17 Jun 2013 Michael HACK 13 Dec 2011 25 Oct 2012 Paolo BOCHICCHIO 16 Nov 2011 27 Oct 2012 Complementary Information
Ksenija Barysiene
Philipp Hansen
Efi Anastasiou
Francesco Gaglioppa
Kiyoshi IwaiPerson 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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
• Tobacco Europe (TE)
• Business Europe
• Japan Business Council in Europe (JBCE)
• American European Community Association (AECA)
• The Kangaroo Group
• EuropenMember 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
2,000,000€ - 2,249,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
2,000,000€ - 2,249,999€
Other financial info
These costs include staff costs, office expenditure, membership and service subscription fees.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
EU Affairs news bulletin and periodic newsletter: https://jtieuaffairs.brussels/
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 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 May 2022 Location Berlaymont Subject Exchange with a group of Romanian journalists, who are sponsored by the European JTI Journalist scholarship, on Commission's communication strategy/press relations during the COVID crisis/war in Ukraine DG Communication Attending - Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen (Director-General)
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Date 05 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject regulatory issues Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jan 2016 Location Brussels Subject AECA Round-Table on “Dealing with Regulatory Burden Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Bernardus Smulders (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Nov 2015 Location BERL Subject Better Regulation 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 - Riccardo Maggi (Cabinet member)