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This registration form follows the requirements of the 2014 Interinstitutional Agreement (no longer in force).

British American Tobacco

Identification number in the register: 2427500988-58
Registration date: 21/01/2009 11:38:54

The registrant performed the last (partial or annual) update on: 26/05/2021 09:57:48
The date of the last annual update was: 26/05/2021 09:57:48
Next annual update due latest on: 26/05/2022

Applicant/registrant: organisation or self-employed individual

(Organisation) name:

British American Tobacco

Acronym:

BAT

Form of the entity:

PLC

Website:

http://www.bat.com

Category of registration

Section:

II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations

and more precisely:

Companies & groups

Head office

Address:

Globe House, Temple Place, 4

P.O. box:

Post code:

WC2R 2PG

City:

London

Country:

UNITED KINGDOM

Telephone number:

(+0044) 207 845 1600

Contact details of the organisation's Belgium office:

Aarlenstraat 80 Rue d'Arlon
Brussels B-1040
BELGIUM

Telephone number:

(+32) 26278896

Person with legal responsibility

Surname:

Sensi-Minautier

First Name:

Eric

Position:

Vice President EU Affairs

Person in charge of EU relations

Surname:

Eric

First name:

SENSI-MINAUTIER

Position:

Vice President EU Affairs

Goals/remit

Goals / remit of the organisation:

BAT is a leading, multi-category consumer goods business, established in 1902. Our purpose is to build A Better Tomorrow by reducing the health impact of our business through offering a greater choice of enjoyable and less risky products for our consumers. The company has announced a target of increasing the number of its non-combustible product consumers from 11 million to 50 million by 2030; and to achieve at least £5 billion in New Categories revenues in by 2025. BAT has also committed to encouraging those who otherwise continue to smoke, to switch completely to scientifically-substantiated, reduced-risk* alternatives.

*Based on the weight of evidence and assuming a complete switch from smoking. These products are not risk-free and are addictive.

Your organisation is active on the following level(s):

Global

Specific activities covered by the Register

Main EU legislative proposals or policies targeted:

British American Tobacco engages on issues that are relevant to its business, such as tobacco-related regulatory issues, taxation, movement of excisable product, corporate social responsibility, Better Regulation, Intellectual Property, preventing illicit trade and counterfeiting or Circular Economy.

In particular, the following legislative proposals or policies were notably followed in 2020:
• Directive 2019/904/EC on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment
• The implementation of Directive 2014/40/EU on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture , presentation, and sale of tobacco and related products
• Tobacco taxation – revision of EU rules
• Review of the requirements for packaging and feasibility of measures to prevent packaging waste
• Batteries - modernising EU rules
• The European Green Deal

Communication activities (events, campaigns, publications, etc.) related to the EU policies above:

List of meetings with the European Commission This field displays the list of any meetings the registrant has held with Commissioners, Members of their Cabinet or Director-Generals since 01/12/2014 under its current identification number in the Register :

PDF file

List of contributions to public consultations This field displays list of public consultations to which the entity contributed since 24/07/2018 under its current identification number in the Register (provided that the entity indicated the TR ID number in its contribution) :

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Tobacco taxation – revision of EU rules
Review of the requirements for packaging and feasibility of measures to prevent packaging waste

List of contributions to roadmaps This field displays list of roadmaps to which the entity contributed since 24/07/2018 under its current identification number in the Register (provided that the entity indicated the TR ID number in its contribution). :

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Tobacco taxation – revision of EU rules

Participation in EU structures and platforms:

Intergroups and unofficial groupings (European Parliament) Only interest representatives who are registered in the Transparency register may participate in intergroup or other unofficial grouping activities organised on Parliament’s premises, for instance by attending meetings or events of the intergroup or other unofficial grouping, by offering support to it, or by co-hosting its events. :

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N/A

Commission expert groups and other similar entities (European Commission) This field displays membership of any active Expert groups and is limited to Type C (Organisation) and Type B (Individual expert appointed as a representative of a common interest) members. :

N/A

Participation in other EU supported forums and platforms:

Number of persons involved in the activities

Number of persons involved from the organisation expressed in % of working time:

50%: 3 25%: 4

Number of persons involved:

Full time equivalent (FTE):

2.5

Complementary information:

As described in the Transparency Register Guidelines, this is the most up-to-date figure for the number of individuals working on activities covered by the Register at the time of our annual update. Financial data also includes an estimate of the costs attributable to additional employees who left the company since then but spent a portion of their time working on activities covered by the Register in 2020.

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

First name	Surname	Start Date	End Date
Christa	PELSERS	11/06/2021	10/06/2022
Federica	PATALANO	15/06/2021	14/06/2022
Thomas	COMPERNOLLE	16/06/2021	15/06/2022
Eric	SENSI-MINAUTIER	16/06/2021	15/06/2022
Matthias	PIO	11/06/2021	10/06/2022
Adriana	JALBA	16/12/2021	15/12/2022
Justyna	SMOK-CHAJN	16/12/2021	15/12/2022

Fields of interest

Fields of interest:

Agriculture and rural development
Borders and security
Business and industry
Climate action
Competition
Customs
Economy, finance and the euro
Employment and social affairs
Enlargement
Environment
Food safety
Foreign affairs and security policy
Fraud prevention
Institutional affairs
International co-operation and development
Justice and fundamental rights
Public health
Regional policy
Research and innovation
Single market
Taxation
Trade

Membership and affiliation

Membership of any associations/(con)federations/networks or other bodies:

British American Tobacco is a member of various associations and networks around the world, including: Tobacco Europe, AmCham EU, BCCB, Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium, BusinessEurope, Kangaroo Group, ICC UK, INTA

List of organisations, networks and associations that are the members and/or you are affiliated with:

N/A

Financial data

Closed financial year:

01/2020 - 12/2020

Financial year:

01/2020 - 12/2020

Estimate of the annual costs related to activities covered by the register:

2,000,000 € - 2,249,999 €

Most recent financial information about funding received from the EU institutions:

No funding received from the EU institutions during the last closed financial year.

Complementary information:

The estimate of the annual costs related to activities covered by the register is notably comprised of staff costs, office and administrative expenses, in-house operation expenditure, representation costs, consultancy fees and membership fees.

Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.

The organisation has also declared to be bound to the following other Code:
BAT Standards of Business Conduct