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Overview

Lobbying Costs

550,000€

Financial year: Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

2 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

2

High-level Commission meetings

22

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    ABB

    EU Transparency Register

    7790041608-14 First registered on 04 Nov 2008

    Goals / Remit

    ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. In line with ABB’s slogan “Power and Productivity for a better World”, our products, systems, solutions and services are designed to boost our customers’ productivity while lowering environmental impact. ABB was formed in 1988 through a merger of Swedish ASEA (created in 1883) and Swiss Brown, Boveri & Cie or BBC (created in 1891). Today ABB operates in approximately 100 countries and employs 135,000 people globally of which more than 60,000 people in Europe. In 2015 ABB generated a turnover of 35.5 billion USD and a net income of 1.9 billion USD. http://new.abb.com/media/group-reports

    Main EU files targeted

    Main EU initiatives, policy and legislative files followed by ABB in 2015:

    EU Climate and Energy Strategy 2030; European Energy Security Strategy; Power Interconnection Targets; Energy Efficiency Directive and Targets; Renewable Energy Policies; State Aid Guidelines for Environmental Protection and Energy; EU Smart Grid Initiatives; Connecting Europe Facility and Projects of Common European Interest; Ecodesign Regulations in particular concerning Motors and Power Transformers; Ten-Year-Network-Development-Plan; EU Network Codes for Electricity; Deployment of Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive; Regulation on Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases; REACH Regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals), Directive on Network and Information Security; EU Radio Spectrum Policy; Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives; Regulation on Surveillance of Products; 4th Railway Package, Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; Conflict Minerals Regulation; Environmental Goods Agreement, Anti-Dumping Investigation on Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue Guimard, 15
    Brussels 1040
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    2

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 27 Feb 2016

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Paula IWANIUK 09 Jan 2024 08 Jan 2025
    Mr Simas Gerdvila 22 Apr 2022 22 Apr 2023
    Mr Vincenzo CONFORTI 10 Nov 2021 10 Nov 2022
    Mr Folker FRANZ 01 Feb 2020 30 Jan 2021
    Mr Florian Chapalain 24 Sep 2019 24 Sep 2020
    Mr Folker FRANZ 16 Jan 2019 16 Jan 2020
    Mr Evann DUMONT-LAPOINTE 16 Jan 2019 22 Sep 2019
    Mr Florian Chapalain 26 Sep 2018 24 Sep 2019
    Mr Folker FRANZ 03 Jan 2018 20 Dec 2018
    Mr Florian Chapalain 21 Sep 2017 21 Sep 2018
    Mr Jochen Kreusel 09 Jun 2017 02 Jun 2018
    Mr Folker FRANZ 09 Dec 2016 09 Dec 2017
    Mr Florian Chapalain 05 Sep 2016 31 Aug 2017
    Mr Nicholas Goedeking 16 Mar 2016 11 Mar 2017
    Mr Folker FRANZ 05 Dec 2015 03 Dec 2016
    Ms Lucia Hricova 05 Dec 2015 03 Dec 2016
    Mr Folker FRANZ 13 Dec 2014 05 Dec 2015
    Ms Lucia Hricova 13 Dec 2014 05 Dec 2015
    Ms Lucia Hricova 16 Jan 2014 14 Jan 2015
    Mr Folker FRANZ 16 Jan 2014 14 Jan 2015
    Mrs Heidemarie Schuler-Renger 24 Sep 2013 15 Jan 2014
    Ms Lucia Hricova 16 Jan 2013 12 Jan 2014
    Mr Folker FRANZ 16 Jan 2013 12 Jan 2014

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Mr Folker Franz (Head of EU Representation)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Ulrich Spiesshofer (Chief Executive Officer)

  • Categories

    Category

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

    Subcategory

    Companies & groups

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    T&D Europe (The European Association of the Electricity Transmission and Distribution Equipment and Services Industry), Wind Europe (European Wind Energy Association), Friends of the Supergrid (FoSG), SolarPower Europe, SEMI Europe (semiconductors) , UNIFE (Association of the European Rail Industry), UITP (International Association of Public Transport), Electromobility Platform (set up by T&E), AVERE (Electric Road Vehicle Association), Orgalime (European Engineering Industries Association), Anhydrides Joint Industry Taskforce (AJIT), CEMEP (European manufacturers of electrical machines and power electronics equipment and systems), CAPIEL (European Committee for the Associations of Manufacturers of Switchgear and Control gear equipments), CECAPI (European Committee of Electrical Installation Equipment Manufacturers), EUGINE (European Engine Power Plant Association (European Association of Internal Combustion (IC) Engine Driven Power Generation), Ocean Energy Europe, euRobotics, EUnited (European Engineering Industries Association), European Aluminium, EVI-GTI (European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation), ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion), AMISA2, BDI Wirtschaftskreis (Wirtschafskreis des Bundesverbands des Deutschen Industrie e.V.), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation), ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute), EUnited Robotics (The European Robotics Association), Smart Grids European Technology Platform, EPC (European Policy Center), EFM (European Forum for Manufacturing), EEF (European Energy Forum), ERF (European Rail Forum), natural membership: Ulrich Spiesshofer, ERT (European Roundtable of Industrialists)

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    550,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    3,036,112 € (Source: Horizon 2020, FP7 ENERGY, FP7 ICT, FP7 JTI, FP7 TRANSPORT,FP7 PEOPLE, TEN-T)

    Other financial info

    The "estimated costs attributable to activities covered by the Register" figure includes EU public affairs activities budget and consultancy fees in 2015. ABB direct membership fees in EU trade federations and associations in 2015 amounted to 282,781.05 EUR. This figure excludes indirect membership fees paid through national trade federations and associations.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    X01211 Comité consultative pour la sécurité et la santé sur le lieu de travail
    E02920 Network and information Security (NIS) Platform, DG Connect

    ACC

    None

    Groups (European Parliament)

    EEF - European Energy Forum, ERF - European Rail Forum
    EEF - European Energy Forum, ERF - European Rail Forum, EFM (European Forum for Manufacturing)

    Communication activities

    2013: report by the Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by ABB: “Intelligent manufacturing: Targeting better energy efficiency”
    http://abblibrary.abb.com/global/scot/scot380.nsf/veritydisplay/
    a30ca06a25eee52bc1257bf000319c43/$file/EE_EIU_2013%20v2.pdf

    2011: Economist intelligence Unit/Enerdata – “Trends in global energy efficiency 2011 – an analysis of industry and utilities” http://www.enerdata.net/enerdatauk/press-and-publication/publications/2011-trends-in-global-energy-efficiency.pdf

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    22 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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