Giles Chichester
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Background
Exremely pro-nuclear British MEP. Chairman of the European Energy Forum. Conservative industry spokesman.
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Pharma, Chemical, Defence, Energy and Tobacco Freebies
Chicester lists the following freebies in his register of interests:
- July 2006 - Visit to Melkoya LNG facility, Hammerfest, Norway. Flights from Oslo to Alta, north Norway, passage by coastal steamer to Tromso, flight to Oslo, with hospitality and accommodation all courtesy of Statoil.
- June 2006 - Received hospitality and accommodation at Riga Baltic Region Energy Conference courtesy of European Energy Forum.
- June 2006 - Flight to Toulouse, hospitality and accommodation for visit to Astrium and Airbus courtesy of AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe.
- March 2006 - Flight to Avignon, visit to Eurodif and Melox plants and hotel accommodation courtesy of Areva.
- October 2005 - Visited nuclear research facilities at Marcoule, France. Hotel accommodation and hospitality courtesy of CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique).
- May 2005 - Attended and spoke at CEZ (Czech Energy Utility company) Energy Conference in Prague. Hotel accommodation for one night courtesy of CEZ.
- July 2004 - Visited Total Fina Elf gas storage facility at Lussagnet in South West France, as a guest of Total Fina Elf including transport and accommodation.
- July 2004 - Attended Wimbledon Mens Final with his wife as guest of Imperial Tobacco.
- November 2003 - Visited BP's Grangemouth petro-chemical plant in Scotland as a guest of the European Chemicals Industry Council (CEFIC). Flights courtesy of CEFIC.
- November 2003 - Visited Czech energy utility at Temelin Nuclear Power Plant in Czech Republic as a guest of CÊZ. Accomodation for two nights in Prague and hospitality courtesy of CÊZ.
- August 2003 - Visited Cap de la Hague nuclear re-processing plant by charter flight as guest of Areva with seven MEP colleagues. Then travelled to Marseilles by scheduled flight to visit Marcoules nuclear research facility as guest of CEA with return flight to Brussels.
- April 2003 - Attended and spoke at European Nuclear Council meeting at Stirin Castle, Prague as guest of Foratom and CÊZ.
- November 2002 -Attended rugby international between England and South Africa at Twickenham as guest of Imperial Tobacco.
- July 2002 -Attended opera in Verona. Accommodation, hospitality and tickets for the opera "Nabucco" as guests of GlaxoSmithKline.
- July 2002 - Attended a luncheon and the Men's Final match at Wimbledon as the guest of Imperial Tobacco.
- October 2000 - Visit to Oskarshamn, Sweden as guest of the Swedish Power Association and Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB). Visited the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory to see the development of a solution for spent fuel disposal and visited the Canister Laboratory, CLAB, Sweden's central interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
- September 2000 - Visited nuclear power plant and waste repository research facility at Rauma as guest of TVO, Teollisuuden Voima Oy.
- July 2000 - Visit to Everest North Sea Oil Production Platform as guest of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers together with MEP colleagues from the European Parliament's Industry, Trade, Research and Energy Committee and Environment Committee.
- May 2000 - Visited Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria as guest of Foratom and Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.
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Other Business Interests
- Director of Guildford Timber Co. Ltd, NZ and 50 per cent shareholder.
- Director of Siverstream Forests Ltd, NZ. A wholly owned subsidiary of Guildford Timber. [1] (http://www.nuclearspin.org/index.php/Giles_Chichester#endnote_bus)
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References
- ^ European Parliament, 2006, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests Pursuant to Rule 9 and Annex I of the European Parliament's Rules of Procedure Concerning Transparency and the Financial Interests of Members (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/img/struct/files/icn_pdf.gifYear:)