Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75 Fte (15)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH)
EU Transparency Register
416456120129-02 First registered on 30 Dec 2015
Goals / Remit
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH is one of the world’s leading companies in its industry and the largest home appliance manufacturer in Europe. Globally driven by individual consumer needs, BSH aspires to continuously improve quality of life at home with its outstanding brands, innovative, sustainable products and top-class digital solutions.
BSH’s product portfolio ranges from large home appliances – such as cooktops, ovens, extractor hoods, dishwashers, washers, dryers, fridges, and freezers – to small home appliances, such as vacuum cleaners, espresso machines as well as small kitchen appliances.
Founded in Germany in 1967 as a joint venture of Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart) and Siemens AG (Munich), BSH has been 100% owned by the Bosch Group since January 2015. With around 63,000 employees worldwide, 39 factories, many of which are located in the EU, we have reached a turnover in 2022 of around 15.9 billion Euros.Main EU files targeted
- Ecodesign:
ESPR Framework, Implementing Acts on kitchen appliances, vacuum cleaners, tumble driers, standby and certain components (lights sources, motors, fans)
- Energy Label:
Delegated Acts on kitchen appliances, vacuum cleaners, tumble driers
- Circular Economy /Resource Efficiency:
Fit for 55, Right to Repair, Empowering Consumers, Substantiating Green Claims
- Waste and Substance and materials legislation:
WEEE revision, REACH, RoHS revision, Packaging Directive, Waste Framework Directive revision, Plastics, Microplastics, Critical Raw Materials
- Single Market / CE System:
Review of New Legislative Framework, Standardisation Strategy
- Product Liability Directive
- Artificial Intelligence Act, AI Liability directive
- Cyber Security: Transposition of NIS2, RED Delegated Acts on Art 3.3, Cyber Resilience Act
- Data ActAddress
Head Office
Carl-Wery-Strasse 34
München 81739
GERMANYEU Office
Rue Picard 7
Bruxelles 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
15
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 3 25% 2 10% 10 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 08 May 2024
Name Start date End Date Bruno VERMOESEN 19 Jul 2023 18 Jul 2024 Mr Alexander Eisenberg 02 Feb 2023 02 Feb 2024 Bruno VERMOESEN 19 Jul 2022 19 Jul 2023 Mr Alexander Eisenberg 25 Feb 2020 25 Feb 2021 Mr Alexander Eisenberg 11 Jan 2019 11 Jan 2020 Bruno VERMOESEN 20 Jan 2018 19 Jan 2019 Mr Alexander Eisenberg 20 Jan 2018 22 Dec 2018 Bruno VERMOESEN 23 Jan 2017 12 Jan 2018 Mr Alexander Eisenberg 23 Jan 2017 10 Jan 2018 Bruno VERMOESEN 26 Jan 2016 22 Jan 2017 Mr Alexander Eisenberg 20 Jan 2016 19 Jan 2017 Complementary Information
These FTE figures are as required most up-to-date based on the average workload of 2023 personnel cost considered in section 14 are based on costs from 2022 as the last closed financial year.
BSH has several employees that only get occasionally into contact with EU policy and/or legislative issues.
We have included anyone who may work 5% yearly or more on activities covered by the register, these are added up and rounded to the 10% steps offered above by the register.
In view of the guidelines we consider work covered by the register when the persons
- are actively representing BSH interests vis-à-vis EU institutions
- are actively working in APPLiA working groups, as APPLiA is our main EU lobbying association
- are contributing to BSH positions in any of the specific activities listed under Topic 9 of this Transparency Register EntryPerson 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
BSH is in Europe a member of many organizations or associations, either directly or through its staff, ranging from national industry association to memberships in regional industry chambers. From these organisations we list below the ones which represent industry interests at EU level and to which we contribute actively.
Member organisations
APPLiA – Home Appliances Europe, Association of the Home Appliances Manufacturers,
https://applia-europe.eu/
ZVEI – Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V., – Germany’s Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association.
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Horizon 2020 561,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Other financial info
The estimation for b) above includes the cost of BSH’s Brussels office, an estimation for the employees under section 10 as well as activities in line with Heading 14 and 14a of the 2022 guidelines.
Statements under d) Statements under d) are done for 2022 – the year of reference for the current entry; for the years after the closed financial year are not finalised yet.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
We currently do not drive campaigns as BSH. However we are active in our Key EU Associations (see Heading 12)
Other activities
BSH is a member of APPLiA (Home Appliance Europe, the European industry association of home appliance manufacturers) which in turn is part of several entities, e.g. the “Eco-Design Consultation Forum”, or the expert group on liability and new technologies. Details can be found here http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=search.searchNew&resetValues=1 (search term “APPLiA”)
Meetings
Meetings
None declared