Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association |
| Acronym: |
UNICA
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| Legal status: |
Non Profit Organisation
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| Website address: |
http://www.unica.com.br/
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Antonio de Padua Rodrigues
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| Position: |
Interim Executive President |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Geraldine Kutas
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| Position: |
Head of International Affairs |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
2179 - 9° Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima
São Paulo - SP 01452-000
BRAZIL
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| Telephone number: |
(+55 11) 3093 4949 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) is the largest organization in Brazil representing sugar, ethanol and bioelectricity producers. UNICA members answer for more than 50% of all ethanol produced in Brazil and 60% of overall sugar production. The Brazilian sugarcane sector’s annual gross earnings are of nearly US$ 23 billion, and the sector directly employs over 1.28 million people.
UNICA’s objective in Brussels is to provide consumers, government officials, NGOs, the business community and the news media with up-to-date, detailed information on vital social, economic and environmental contributions of Brazil’s sugar, ethanol and bioelectricity sectors. UNICA’s aims at working pro-actively with the European Union and national policy-makers to identify opportunities to remove existing regulatory barriers within the EU. It monitors on-going and upcoming European legislation, alert members on developments affecting the sector and lobby European institutions so that its needs are recognized and taken into account in the EU decision-making process. It is also important for UNICA to develop a network of high-level contacts among the European Institutions and other stakeholders.
UNICA actively participates in the EU decision-making process, and follows key EU legislative proposals with a direct impact on the industry in the field of energy, environment, trade (MERCOSUR and WTO), and transport and agriculture issues, among others.
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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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UNICA’s mission is to play a leading role in the consolidation of the Brazilian sugarcane industry as a modern agroindustrial complex equipped to compete sustainably, in Brazil and around the world, as suppliers of ethanol, sugar and bioelectricity.
Priorities:
• Consolidate ethanol as a globally traded commodity
• Promote demand of ethanol as a clean, renewable transport fuel
• Expand use of ethanol to other relevant sectors
• Foment large-scale production of bioelectricity for Brazil’s domestic market
• Assist member companies in becoming sustainability benchmarks
• Disseminate solid, credible scientific data about the competitiveness and sustainability of sugarcane ethanol
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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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Ana
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Leoncio de Aguiar
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01/09/12
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10/07/13
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Geraldine
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Kutas
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01/09/12
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10/07/13
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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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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Climate Action
- Energy
- Enterprise
- Environment
- 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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Financial data
| Financial year: |
04/2010
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03/2011
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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50000
€ - 100000
€
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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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