Overview
Lobbying Costs
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.2 Fte (22)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
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 the leading home appliance manufacturer in Europe.
We are home to globally established Appliance Brands, such as Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau and Neff, in addition to seven local brands. With our Ecosystem Brand Home Connect and Service Brands such as Kitchen Stories and BlueMovement, we offer consumers digital services and sustainable solutions to improve their daily lives.
Founded in Germany in 1967 as a joint venture of Robert Bosch GmbH and Siemens AG , BSH has been 100% owned by the Bosch Group since January 2015. With around 60,000 employees worldwide, 39 factories, many of which in EU, we have reached a turnover in 2020 of around 13.9 billion euros.
Our 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 or small kitchen appliances.
https://www.bsh-group.com/company/company-portraitMain EU files targeted
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
- Green Deal / Circular Economy Action Plan /Resource Efficiency:
Fit for 55, Right to Repair, Sustainable Products Initiative, Substantiating Green Claims
- Waste and Substance and materials legislation:
WEEE revision, REACH, RoHS revision, Packaging Directive, Waste Framework Directive revision, Plastics, Microplastics
- Single Market / CE System:
Review of NLF, Battery Directive, General Product Safety Regulation, Machinery Regulation, Standardisation Strategy
- Review Product Liability Directive
- Artificial Intelligence Act
- Cyber Security: NIS2, RED Delegated Act on Art 3.3, Cyber Resilience 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
22
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 2 50% 1 25% 2 10% 17 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.2
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 May 2022
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 2021 personnel cost considered in section 14 are based on costs from 2020 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. To be on the save side we took into account with the full 5% anyone who may contribute up to 5% but usually stays below that limit. 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
Fair and transparent
As a company operating worldwide, we represent our interests and opinions in national, European and international industry associations and through direct contacts with policy makers. Over and above that, we play an active part internationally in bodies devoted to technical regulations and standardization. Our contribution to political and social opinion-making is constructive and responsible. To ensure that our activities in this area comply with our values and principles, all employees who represent BSH’s interests towards stakeholder groups must first complete compliance training.
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 once which represent industry interests at EU level and to which we contribute actively.Member organisations
Key memberships in industry associations
APPLiA – Home Appliances Europe, Association of the Home Appliances Manufacturers,
ZVEI – Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V., – Germany’s Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association -
Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
1,000,000€ - 1,249,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant H2020 / iREL40 152,250€ Grant CIIP / HPGEN EMBEDDED 12,992€ Grant EU through member state 468,442€ 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 2021 guidelines.
Statements under d) for the current year (i.e. 2022) are not finalised yet. There are grants expected but they can only be quantified and finalised after closing business year.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared