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Overview
Lobbying Costs
600,000€ - 699,999€
Financial year: Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (7)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
8
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Alibaba
EU Transparency Register
288124335633-28 First registered on 13 Aug 2019
Goals / Remit
This registration captures the activities of Alibaba and its subsidiary/affiliate entities in Europe. Currently, these business units operate in Europe: Tmall, Tmall Global, Alibaba.com, AliExpress, Trendyol, Miravia, Alibaba Cloud, Cainiao and Fliggy.
Collectively, our remit is to:
- Build the infrastructure of e-commerce
- Enable millions of commercial and social interactions every day
- Empower our customers with data and infrastructure to help them build and manage their businesses
- Become central to the everyday lives of our customers
- Make it easy to do business anywhere
We believe the internet can level the playing field by enabling small enterprises to leverage innovation and technology to grow and compete more effectively in their domestic and global economies.Main EU files targeted
Reform of the EU Customs Union; New Consumer Agenda; Data Governance framework/ Data Act; Revision of the NIS Directive; Instrument on Foreign Subsidies; General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR); Digital Services Act (DSA); Digital Markets Act (DMA); AI Act; Review of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER); European Climate Law; VAT for e-commerce package; Regulation on market surveillance and compliance of products; Product Safety Pledge/ Consumer Protection Pledge; Memorandum of Understanding on the online sale of counterfeit goods; Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online; E-Privacy Regulation; Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD); Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive; EU Cybersecurity Scheme (EUCS); Revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR); Data protection; Right to repair; Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM); Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR); Product & AI Liability Package; Toy Safety Regulation; EU SME Strategy.
Address
Head Office
Alibaba.com Singapore E-Commerce Private Limited51 Bras Basah Road
Singapore 189554
SINGAPOREEU Office
Avenue des Arts 44
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
7
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 6 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 22 Mar 2025
Name Start date End Date Manfredi MINUTELLI 14 Oct 2024 13 Oct 2025 Claudia VERNOTTI 27 Sep 2024 26 Sep 2025 Eric PELLETIER 07 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Claudia VERNOTTI 13 Oct 2023 29 Sep 2024 Manfredi MINUTELLI 18 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2024 Manfredi MINUTELLI 14 Oct 2022 14 Oct 2023 Claudia VERNOTTI 11 Oct 2022 11 Oct 2023 Manfredi MINUTELLI 16 Sep 2021 16 Sep 2022 Complementary Information
One full-time staff in Brussels (as of September 2022), with additional staff in other European office locations being involved on a part-time basis in the activities described under heading 9 . However, we have excluded from this figure Alibaba executive officers who spend a de minimis percentage of their time in covered activities, such as occasional meeting attendance.
In addition, Alibaba employs the service of a public affairs firm, whose staff provides a limited amount of support for those activities, approximately equivalent to a .5 FTE. Those external resources are not included in the figure above.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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
- DOT Europe
- European Internet Forum
- The European House - Ambrosetti
- Gaia-XMember 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
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
600,000€ - 699,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount brunswick group 300,000€ - 399,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name brunswick group Closed year Costs
600,000€ - 699,999€
Other financial info
Anything to add
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Alibaba published and distributed to a select number of EU stakeholders its first European Economic Impact Assessment Study, focused on the contribution of Alibaba’s B2C platforms in China on European exports and the European economy at large:
https://www.alizila.com/european-exports-to-china-alibaba-jobs-tax-revenues-2022-bocconi-study/
Alibaba hosted an online policy event on SMEs and the Recovery and Resilience Facility in 2021:
https://www.digital-policy-series.com/Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
8 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.
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 06 Mar 2024 Location Brussels Subject AI and data governance in EU Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Jan 2024 Location Brussels Subject DSA implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Attending - Eleonora Ocello (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Nov 2023 Location Singapore Subject Exchange on the group’s compliance with the EU Digital Services Act Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Elina Laurinen (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Mar 2022 Location Videoconference Subject DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Mar 2022 Location video conference Subject DSA, GPSR and Product Safety Pledge Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Jan 2022 Location Virtual meeting Subject Discussion on Instant Payments / standardisation of QR codes. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Nicolo Brignoli (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Nov 2021 Location online Subject The product safety pledge and its future extension. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists