Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Sprouted Seeds Association (ESSA)
EU Transparency Register
102848613573-57 First registered on 30 Apr 2014
Goals / Remit
ESSA is the association that represents the interest of European sprouted seeds growers and traders of seeds for the production of sprouted seeds.
Its members are companies and associations established in Europe and involved in the production and/or trade of sprouted seeds as well as suppliers and service providers to the sprouted seeds sector.
ESSA is working to promote the interests of European sprouted seed growers, to provide a forum to discuss issues affecting the European sprouted seeds sector and to provide an opportunity to discuss common issues such as food safety, EU regulatory affairs and other issues.Main EU files targeted
Organic policy, Food safety: pesticides, Food safety: hygiene, Quality, nutrition & consumers health, Official controls,
Bilateral trade relations, Research and innovation, EU agricultural policy: emergency support measures & CAP; Crisis Management.
ESSA mainly follows the work of the European Commission: DG Santé and DG AGRI.Address
Head Office
Rue de Trêves, 49-51 bte 8
Brussels 1040
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
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
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
ESSA is a factual association linked to Freshfel AISBL
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
Other financial info
The ESSA budget comes from membership fees. We estimate that around 20 to 30% of the budget can be directly attributed to interest representation with EU institutions, the other 70 to 80% relating to administrative and operational tasks, networking and advising to members, reporting and other non-lobbying related activities.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
ESSA in 2016 elaborated its hygiene guidelines for the production of sprouts and seeds for sprouting in order to ensure the correct application of the legislative package on sprout production enacted in 2013 and 2019. The link to the guideline document: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52017XX0708(01)&from=EN.
The guidance document must be regularly adapted based on the changing European legislation, e.g. new European Official Controls Regulation which entered into force in December 2019.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared