Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Companies & groups |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mrs
Alison Cooper
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| Position: |
Chief Executive |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Alessandro Tschirkov
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| Position: |
Senior Corporate Affairs Manager |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
1 Upton Road Southville
P.O. box: 244
Bristol BS99 7UJ
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 01179 636636 |
| Fax number: |
(+44) 01179667448 |
| Other contact information: |
Imperial Tobacco EU Office
89, Avenue de Cortenbergh, Bte 7
B-1000 Brussels
Telephone +32 (0)2 7371011
Fax +32 (0)2 7371014
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Imperial Tobacco is a leading international tobacco company with a balanced market footprint and a unique portfolio of brands and products across all tobacco categories.
Our comprehensive and versatile portfolio of brands and products gives us strong representation in all tobacco products and across all price segments.
We have international strength in cigarette, we are the world leaders in fine cut tobacco, papers and cigars, and we have a growing snus business.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
3
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
| First name
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Surname
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Start Date |
End Date |
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Nikolaos
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MERTZANIDIS
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18/01/13
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14/01/14
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Alessandro
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TSCHIRKOV
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01/02/13
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14/01/14
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Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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We have been closely following tobacco product regulatory and taxation related issues undertaken by key EU institutions.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Consumer Affairs
- Customs
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Enterprise
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Public Health
- Taxation
- Trade
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Confederation of EC Cigarette Manufacturers (CECCM)
European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA)
European Cigar Manufacturers Association (ECMA)
European Smokeless Tobacco Council (ESTOC)
European Rolling Papers Association (ERPA)
Tobacco Industry Platform (TIP)
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
American European Community Association (AECA)
British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (Britcham)
European Travel Retail Council (ETRC)
Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association (APTRA)
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
10/2011
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09/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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200000
€ - 250000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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Figures for 2012 have been updated to include:
- an estimate of the costs associated with our Brussels representation office and Brussels based employees in proportion to their activities
- an estimate of the costs related to interest representation by non-Brussels based employees
- an estimate of the costs for interest representation by trade associations and third parties on our behalf, as per the updated Guidelines. These costs have been estimated by using their declarations on the register multiplied by our share of total membership fees or from invoices for interest representation activities
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