Overview
Lobbying Costs
750,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
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 the sector and the largest home appliance manufacturer in Europe. To be the first choice for consumers worldwide drives the company and its employees. BSH aspires to improve the quality of life for people with its exceptional brands, high-class products and superior solutions.
Alongside the global brands Bosch and Siemens, as well as Gaggenau and Neff, the brand portfolio includes the local brands Thermador, Balay, Profilo, Constructa, Pitsos, Coldex and Zelmer.
Founded in 1967 as a joint venture of Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart) and Siemens AG (Munich), BSH has been 100 percent owned by Bosch Group since January 2015. In its over 50 years of history, BSH has grown from a German exporter into one of the world's leading home appliance manufacturers. With more than 61,800 employees worldwide, BSH increased its revenue in 2017 to around 13.8 billion euro. BSH produces the entire range of modern home appliances at 42 factories worldwide. The product portfolio ranges from cookers, ovens and extractor hoods, dishwashers, washers and dryers, fridges and freezers to small appliances such as vacuum cleaners, coffee machines or food processors.Main EU files targeted
- Energy Efficiency:
Ecodesign / Energy Label
- Resource Efficiency
- Circular Economy Package
- Waste and WEEE legislation
- Market Surveillance Regulation
- Product Safety
- Consumer Policy
- Digital Single Market
- Digitising Industry
- Cybersecurity
- Horizon 2020
- Substance and materials regulationAddress
Head Office
Carl-Wery-Strasse 34
München 81739
GERMANYEU Office
BSH Home Appliances
Laarbeeklaan 74
Brussels 1090
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 20 Dec 2018
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
In Brussels there are two individuals working 100% on European Affairs (they are the ones listed under 100%).
Additionally, there are many employees of BSH that get into contact with EU policy and/or legislative issues.
In most of the cases these persons receive information about future legislation and/or collect information needed in the Brussels Bureau or demanded by commission services (such as in public consultations).
Some of these persons are explicitly consulted to draft positions and are thus working in a field covered by the register. The related workload of these persons is however a small fraction of their yearly workload. Thus these persons (de minimis 20% yearly work on register related matters) are not included in the calculation above.Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Christoph Thim (Head of Corporate Technology - Technical Market Access)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Karsten Ottenberg (Chief Executive Officer)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
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 standardisation. Current topics of our work in associations include not only revising the European Energylabel or the Circular Economy, but also introducing standards for product safety and usability. 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 some 300 organizations or associations, either directly or through its staff, ranging from national industry association to memberships in regional industry chambers.Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
750,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
406,000 € (Source: EU)
Other financial info
The estimation for b) above includes the cost of BSH’s Brussels office and an estimation for the employees under section 10. These cost have been estimated conservatively in order to include e.g. visits to Brussels from board members or head quarter staff.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
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