Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
BT Group plc |
| Acronym: |
BT
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| Legal status: |
Public Limited Company
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| Website address: |
http://www.btplc.com
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Companies & groups |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Larry Stone
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| Position: |
President Group Public and Government Affairs |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Whitchurch Adrian
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| Position: |
VP European Affairs |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
81 BT Centre Newgate Street
London EC1A 7AJ
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 20 7356 5000 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
BT Brussels
40 Rue Montoyer
Brussels 1000
Belgium
+32 2 2371715
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to its customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services.
In the year ended 31 March 2012, BT Group’s revenue was £18,897m with profit before taxation of £2,445m.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.
BT consists of several lines of business:
• BT Retail - serves business and residential customers and is the prime channel to market for other BT businesses.
• BT Wholesale - runs BT's networks and provides network services and solutions to other communication companies.
• BT Global Services - BT's global managed services and solutions provider, serves multi-site organisations worldwide.
• BT Innovate and Design - BT Group’s IT design and delivery business.
• BT Operate - deploys and runs communications services for customers over BT's core network and systems.
• Openreach - owns, maintains and develops the access network that links homes and businesses to the networks of Britain's communications providers.
BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.
Registered Office: 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ
Registered in England and Wales No. 4190816
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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: |
5
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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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Tilmann
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KUPFER
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18/12/12
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14/08/13
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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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Our main focus is on Information Society related policies, such as the European Digital Agenda, the new e-communications framework and related follow-up, data protection, intellectual property, cyber security, consumer policy and internet governance.
We also follow wider EU policies including the Internal Market (Single Market Action Plan), competition, innovation and economic relations with the EU’s major trading partners, such as bilateral with the US, Japan, India or Brazil and multilaterally at the level of the WTO. As a provider of the UK’s largest occupational pension fund, we also take an interest in the EU’s pension policy. Given BT’s strong commitment to reduce CO2 emissions we take an active interest in Climate Change policy and Green ICT and energy efficiency debate.
For further information on our European Affairs team as well our recent and current positions on legislative proposals and other EU initiatives important to BT please go to:
http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/RegulatoryandPublicaffairs/EuropeanAffairs/EuropeanAffairs.htm
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Audiovisual and Media
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Culture
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Enterprise
- Environment
- External Relations
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Home Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Public Health
- Regional Policy
- Research and Technology
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Transport
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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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BT is a member of the following organisations relevant to its European affairs and European regulatory work:
British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (BCCB)
Business for New Europe (BNE)
German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunication and New Media (BITKOM)
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
Centre for European Reform (CER)
European-American Business Council (EABC)
European Competitive
Telecommunication Association (ECTA)
European Internet Foundation (EIF)
European Policy Centre (EPC)
European Policy Forum (EPF)
European Services Forum (ESF)
Friends of Europe
Kangaroo Group
Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
04/2011
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03/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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850,000 €
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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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30,437,000 €
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Grants:
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8,200,000 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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BT supplies managed networked IT services to multinational corporations, domestic businesses, non-governmental organisations and local, national and international government bodies, including the European institutions.
We also participate in EU funded R&D projects and we are involved in the roll-out of broad band in some regions benefitting from EU funding. While we do not receive the latter funding directly, but via the regional governments, we included those in the above figure.
N.B. the numbers are for our financial year running from 04/2011 to 03/2012 and represent a rough calculation based on the data we were able to collect in house.
Our declared EU Affairs budget is for the proportional share in working time, office space and other spending, which occurs in lobbying the European Institutions. It also comprises membership fees in relevant organisations and for consultants in supporting our lobbying activities.
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