Irish Distillers Association

Lobbying Organisation Irish Distillers Association

Date published 20 Sep, 2021

Relevant Matter Legislation

Public Policy Area Food

Period 1 May, 2021 to 31 Aug, 2021

Specific Details Enforcement of EU spirits regulations, in particular indicated place of provenance provisions (e.g. Art 21 of 19/787)

Intended results Demonstrate lack of enforcement of spirits provenance regulations

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Iseult Conlan

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (11-20)

Complaint submitted to EU Commission on breach of EU Reg 787/2019 by Department of Agriculture, Ireland. National measures suspected to infringe Union law: Lack of enforcement of spirits provenance regulations resulting in multiple instances of false provenance information being provided on products that full under a PGI designation.

Social Media (2-5)

Lack of enforcement of EU Reg 787/2019 and general false provenance in Ireland where label placenames unrelated to the distilling location for Irish Whisky.

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Colm Markey MEP (European Parliament)

Chris MacManus MEP (European Parliament)

Maria Walsh MEP (European Parliament)

Grace O'Sullivan MEP (European Parliament)

Mick Wallace MEP (European Parliament)

Barry Andrews MEP (European Parliament)

Clare Daly MEP (European Parliament)

Frances Fitzgerald MEP (European Parliament)

Ciarán Cuffe MEP (European Parliament)

Luke Ming Flanagan MEP (European Parliament)

Seán Kelly MEP (European Parliament)

Charlie McConalogue Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)