Overview
Lobbying Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Downstream Users of Chemicals Co-ordination Group (DUCC)
EU Transparency Register
70941697936-72 First registered on 02 Feb 2012
Goals / Remit
DUCC offers a platform for associations whose member companies use chemicals to formulate mixtures (as finished or intermediary products) for professional and industrial users, as well as for consumers. These eleven European-based associations represent represents several important “downstream” industry sectors, ranging from cosmetics and detergents to aerosols, paints, inks, toners, pressroom chemicals, adhesives and sealants, construction chemicals, fragrances, disinfectants, lubricants, and chemical distributors industries. DUCC aims to contribute to the successful implementation of the requirements of the REACH and CLP Regulations. DUCC’s objectives are to: - offer a platform for associations/federations of downstream users of chemicals, which formulate and/or place on the market chemical mixtures intended for end-users, where they can exchange information and expertise, work on issues of common interest and build up common positions towards other stakeholders; - advise and help
Main EU files targeted
REACH (including follow-up actions from the 2017 review); CLP; Better Regulation; EU Green Deal; Non-Toxic Environment Strategy; Interface between Chemicals, Products and Waste.
Address
Head Office
Boulevard du Souverain 165 c/o A.I.S.E.
Brussels 1160
BELGIUMEU Office
Boulevard du Souverain 165 c/o A.I.S.E.
Brussels 1160
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 30 Mar 2023
Name Start date End Date Ms Giulia SEBASTIO 05 Jan 2023 31 Dec 2023 Complementary Information
DUCC has a Platform Manager ensuring the DUCC Secretariat, working as 1 FTE since June 2022.
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
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
HCF - Helsinki Chemical Forum
https://helsinkichemicalsforum.messukeskus.com/
ENES – Exchange Network on Exposure Scenarios
http://echa.europa.eu/en/about-us/exchange-network-on-exposure-scenarios
HBM4EU - Human Biomonitoring for Europe
https://www.hbm4eu.eu/Member 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
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
100,000€ - 199,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount laroche conseil 0€ - 10,000€ Intermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
100,000€ - 199,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Competent Authorities for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of CHemicals (REACH) and Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP)#E02385#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2385 #Observer #C#Industry#Standing Committee on Precursors#E03245#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3245 #Observer #C#Industry
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Other activities
Altogether, DUCC membership comprises more than 9.000 companies across the respective sectors in Europe, the vast majority being SMEs. The calculated turnover of these companies is more than 215 billion euros in Europe.
Meetings
Meetings
2 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 publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 21 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject Reach evaluation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Commission - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 14 Jul 2015 Location Brussels Subject Industrial initiatives in the field of energy efficiency. Case: Zeeland. Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič Portfolio Energy Union Commission - Peter van Kemseke (Cabinet member)