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Overview

Lobbying Costs

1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

5.95 Fte (33)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

2

High-level Commission meetings

44

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Bitkom e.V.   (Bitkom)

    EU Transparency Register

    5351830264-31 First registered on 31 Jul 2008

    Goals / Remit

    Bitkom is Germany’s digital association. Founded 1999 in Berlin, we represent more than 2,200 companies of the digital economy. Our membership spans more than 1,000 SMEs, including half of the 40 DAX companies over 500 startups and virtually all global players. Our members offer software, telecommunications and internet services, produce hardware and consumer electronics, operate in the digital media sector or are in other ways affiliated with the digital economy. A strong European digital policy and a fully integrated digital single market are at the heart of Bitkom’s concerns, as well as establishing Germany as a key driver of digital change in Europe and globally. Bitkom advocates for the digitization of the economy, society, and public administration.

    Main EU files targeted

    AI Act, Ai Liability Directive, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, CSAM, Cyber Resilience Act, Data Act, Data Governance Act, Digital Decade Principles, Digital Fairness, Digital Markets Act, Digital Networks Act, Digital Services Act, eIDAS, ESPR, Evaluierung der Normungsverordnung (1025/2012), EUCS, European Chips Act, European Health Data Space, European Media Freedom Act, FIDA, GDPR Enforcement Regulation, Gigabit Infrastructure Act, Green Claims, Mobility Data Space, NIS2 Directive, Open Finance, Product Liability Directive, PSD3, Right to Repair, Standardisation Strategy, TTC, Virtual Worlds

    Address

    Head Office
    Albrechtstr. 10
    Berlin 10117
    GERMANY
    EU Office
    Rue de la Science 37
    Bruxelles 1040
    BELGIUM

    Website

    http://www.bitkom.org

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    33

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%2
    50%1
    25%3
    10%27

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    5.95

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 15 Mar 2025

    Name Start date End Date
    Nicolas Benjamin Schmidt 26 Aug 2024 26 Aug 2025
    Jana GAULKE 26 Apr 2024 26 Apr 2026
    Sabrina CAROLI 22 Dec 2023 04 Oct 2024
    David ADAMS 22 Dec 2023 04 Oct 2024
    Mr Felix KUHLENKAMP 28 Sep 2023 30 Dec 2023
    Ms Esther STEVERDING 18 Jan 2023 15 Jul 2023
    Sabrina CAROLI 29 Nov 2022 29 Nov 2023
    David ADAMS 29 Nov 2022 29 Nov 2023
    Mr Gustav SPÄT 13 Aug 2022 01 Nov 2022
    Sabrina CAROLI 09 Nov 2021 09 Nov 2022
    David ADAMS 09 Nov 2021 09 Nov 2022
    Benjamin LEDWON 21 Aug 2019 21 Aug 2020
    Mr Torben DAVID 26 Jul 2019 25 Jul 2020
    Benjamin LEDWON 06 Sep 2018 21 Aug 2019
    Mr Torben DAVID 13 Feb 2018 13 Feb 2019
    Benjamin LEDWON 31 Aug 2017 18 Aug 2018
    Ms Martina Krauss 23 Feb 2017 11 Feb 2018
    Constantin GISSLER 25 Aug 2016 23 Aug 2017
    Ms Martina Krauss 20 Jan 2016 19 Jan 2017
    Constantin GISSLER 01 Aug 2015 30 Jul 2016
    Ms Martina Krauss 19 Nov 2014 17 Nov 2015
    Mrs Martina Krauss 19 Nov 2014 27 Jan 2015
    Constantin GISSLER 15 Jul 2014 11 Jul 2015
    Mr Nils Hullen 26 Sep 2013 12 Jul 2014

    Complementary Information

    The main focus of Bitkom's policy work is at the German national level. Currently there are two employees in Brussels who mainly cover EU digital policy. Three employees located in the Berlin headquarters are involved in EU issues working each about 25% on activities falling within the scope of the transparency register, while 27 employees are involved in EU activities by each 10%.

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Trade and business associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    DIGITALEUROPE (www.digitaleurope.org)
    BDI (www.bdi.eu)

    Member organisations

    https://www.bitkom.org/Bitkom/Mitgliedschaft/Mitgliederliste/

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Digital Transport and Logistics Forum#E03280#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3280 #MEMBER #C#IndustrySub-Group on Artifical Intelligence (AI), connected products and other new challenges in product safety#E00935/6#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=100875 #MEMBER #C#Industry

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    Position papers & press releases (https://www.bitkom.org/EN/Press-Media/index-EN.html)

    Events:
    - Bitkom Bento Cyberresilience Act
    - Bitkom Bento Skills
    - Bitkom Bento Digital Green Deal for Europe
    - CSAM & Metaverse Roundtable
    - Europawahlevent

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    44 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.

    1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

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