Overview
Lobbying Costs
350,000€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
7
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
AGORIA
EU Transparency Register
68004524380-10 First registered on 20 Oct 2010
Goals / Remit
Agoria brings together and defends the interests of companies in the technology industry. The federation is committed to the future of these companies and the nearly 275,000 people they employ. With 1,700 member companies, Agoria is the largest sectoral employers’ federation in Belgium.
The federation supports its members, which are active in 10 areas (Information and Communication Technology, Building Technology, Contracting, Materials Technology, Subcontracting, Production Technology & Mechatronics, Transport Systems & Solutions, Energy Systems & Solutions, Environment Systems & Solutions and Aeronautics, Space, Security, Defence Technology), through business development initiatives centred on markets, products and technologies, both nationally and internationally.
Through its Expertise Centres, Agoria also offers assistance to members on matters of Talent and Labour market, Innovation, Energy, Environment, Social affairs, and Regulation and Standards (both technical and general).
The federation has policy units engaged in lobbying actions with governent authorities at both federal and regional levels.Main EU files targeted
Social affairs - Energy - Environment - digital agenda - trade - innovation - Skills
Address
Head Office
Bd reyers Ln, 80
Brussels 1030
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 8 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 16 Jan 2017
Name Start date End Date Laurent HELLEBAUT 22 Sep 2023 20 Sep 2024 Mr Laurent Hellebaut 22 Sep 2023 15 Apr 2024 Ms Hilde Thys 12 Feb 2020 01 Mar 2021 Mr Laurent Hellebaut 08 Feb 2020 06 Feb 2021 Stephan BELAEN 08 Oct 2019 08 Oct 2020 Mr KEVIN VERBELEN 11 Sep 2019 01 Oct 2020 Mr Laurent Hellebaut 12 Feb 2019 08 Feb 2020 Ms Hilde Thys 12 Feb 2019 12 Feb 2020 Ms Hilde Thys 23 Feb 2018 12 Feb 2019 Mr Laurent Hellebaut 09 Feb 2018 08 Feb 2019 Mr Jef D'HOLLANDER 09 Feb 2018 08 Feb 2019 Mr Laurent Hellebaut 21 Feb 2017 09 Feb 2018 Mr Jef D'HOLLANDER 21 Feb 2017 09 Feb 2018 Ms Hilde Thys 21 Feb 2017 09 Feb 2018 Mr Laurent Hellebaut 30 Jan 2016 26 Jan 2017 Mr Laurent Hellebaut 20 Jan 2015 14 Jan 2016 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Laurent Hellebaut (EU Affairs Coordinator)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Marc Lambotte (CEO)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
http://www.kiestechnologie.be/upload/v2014/EU%20Committees%20&%20organisations.pdf
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
350,000€
Other financial info
In order to avoid unintended side-effects such as double counting and inflated figures, membership fees to EU associations/(con)federations are intentionally not included in our overall estimated of the annual costs related to activities covered by the register
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Advisory Committee on Free Movement of Workers
Advisory Committee for the Coordination of Social Security SystemACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
- Industrial policy
- Environment issues
- Internal market directives
- Public procurement
- Trade issues
- Energy policy
- Research & Development
- Industrial policy
- IPR
- Digital agenda
Meetings
Meetings
7 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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Date 27 Apr 2023 Location Brussels Subject Green Deal Industrial Plan, skills, research and innovation. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
- Liviu Stirbat (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Mar 2022 Location Brussels Subject 50 Shades of Hydrogen Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Sarah Nelen (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Jul 2020 Location Video-conference Subject AI, data protection and DSA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
- Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
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Date 18 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Impact of Posting of Workers Directive on European companies Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Piet van Nuffel (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Subject Social dimension of Europe and the European Pillar of the Social Rights Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Marlene Madsen (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Sep 2016 Location Brussels Subject Dual use DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 12 May 2015 Location Brussels, BE Subject Ventilation system Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Attending - Peter van Kemseke (Cabinet member)