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Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Argus Media Ltd
EU Transparency Register
846961512558-23 First registered on 07 Jan 2014
Goals / Remit
Argus Media (Argus) is an independent media organisation with more than 1000 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 26 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets, and also offers bespoke consulting services and industry leading conferences.
Half of Argus employees are commodity journalists who specialise in reporting news and price information relating to physical energy and related commodity markets. They operate according to a rigorous Editorial Code of Conduct and a Compliance and Ethics Policy that align with best journalistic practice, including the avoidance of conflicts of interest.
Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by staff shareholders and investment firms General Atlantic and Hg Capital.Main EU files targeted
Argus Media, a price reporting agency, is a leading independent provider of energy and commodity prices. A number of Argus’ published price assessments have been adopted by market participants for use as independent benchmarks in commodity derivatives contracts. In accordance with Annex II of the EU Benchmark Regulation (BMR), Argus Benchmark Administration was established in 2019 in the Netherlands as an authorised Benchmark Administrator for commodity benchmarks. Argus engages with its regulator and other EU bodies about potential evolution of the regulation.
Address
Head Office
Lacon House 84 Theobald's Road
London WC1X 8NL
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Argus Benchmark Administration BV Office 1.05 Keizersgracht 555
Amsterdam 1017 DR
NETHERLANDSWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 05 May 2024
Name Start date End Date Ms Bambina FORCINITI 25 May 2018 25 May 2019 Mr Simon Smith 09 Feb 2018 09 Feb 2019 Mr Simon Smith 23 Jan 2017 18 Jan 2018 Ms Victoria Masters 03 Jun 2016 03 Jun 2017 Mr Simon Smith 17 Feb 2016 24 Jan 2017 Ms Chloe MacEwen 03 Dec 2015 30 Nov 2016 Ms Victoria Masters 13 Jun 2015 04 Jun 2016 Mr Simon Smith 17 Feb 2015 13 Feb 2016 Ms Chloe MacEwen 03 Dec 2014 01 Dec 2015 Mr Simon Smith 27 Feb 2014 17 Feb 2015 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
The Professional Publishers Association
Commodity Markets Council / Commodity Markets Council EuropeMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount afore consulting 50,000€ - 99,999€ henry manisty 10,000€ - 24,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name afore consulting henry manisty Closed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
Estimate of retainer fees by two consultants spent on lobbying in the EU.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
From time to time, Argus Media organises events related to energy issues and benchmarks.
We brought together our energy experts and policy makers to discuss energy markets prior to MCM legislation in January 2023 and we have conducted educational briefings thereafter. As part of the MCM legislation we provide ACER with LNG price assessment information, and support ACER's LNG expert group. In addition we updated policy makers on draft updates to the MAR regulation.
As a publisher of news and analysis, Argus reports on EU policies as they pertain to the energy and commodity markets we follow and assess.Other activities
As a corporate function, Argus Media maintains an active public policy programme in order to keep abreast of relevant public policy developments internationally. Argus Media undertakes advocacy on public policy issues principally to promote transparent and efficient wholesale commodity markets and to ensure that independent media organisations such as itself can continue to bring transparency to these markets through effective media reporting.
Meetings
Meetings
3 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 20 Oct 2022 Location Brussels Subject introductory meeting energy crisis Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness Portfolio Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union Attending - Florian Denis (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Jan 2019 Location Brussels Subject capital market supervision, Systemic risk benchmarks, Implementation of the Benchmark Regulation, Application of third country regimes DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Olivier Guersent (Director-General)
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Date 10 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Benchmark regulation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Lee Foulger (Cabinet member)