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Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
11.5 Fte (12)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Cobalt Institute (CI)
EU Transparency Register
777244615994-94 First registered on 10 Feb 2015
Goals / Remit
The Cobalt Institute (CI) is a global non-profit trade association set up by industry representing close to 70% of the world-wide production of cobalt. The CI supports the cobalt industry for the sustainable and responsible primary and secondary production, use, re-use, recycling and trading of cobalt in all forms. It has an on-going extensive research programme on cobalt human health and environmental aspects and works with the scientific community. The CI members are miners, producers, manufacturers, traders and end-users of the cobalt and cobalt compounds. It hosts the Cobalt REACH consortium (CoRC) under its umbrella which deals more specifically with REACH and CLP matters.
Main EU files targeted
- REACH- all aspects (Authorisation, Restriction, Evaluation, Registration), SVHC nomination, Candidate Listing, DNELs; OELs (SCOEL-DG-EMPL); RoHS; Water Framework; Responsible sourcing, Critical/Strategic Raw Materials, EU Conflict Minerals Regulation; Classification and Labeling; Asia (Korea-REACH); Science-based decision-making
Address
Head Office
Cobalt Institute
18 Jeffries Passage
Guildford GU1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 11 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
11.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The CI and the Cobalt REACH Consortium employ in total 11.5 FTEs, most of whom share their time between the two organisations depending on the needs.
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Brigitte Amoruso (Advocacy and PR manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr David Weight (President)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
- European Non-Ferrous Metals Association (Eurometaux)
- The Critical Raw Materials Alliance (CRM)
- Non-Ferrous Alliance UK (NFA)
- European Risk Forum (ERF)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
These costs mostly relate to the running of the Cobalt REACH Consortium (CoRC) which was set up specifically for the implementation of the REACH Regulation.
This includes generation of studies, data and preparation of registration dossiers required under REACH, as well as the coordination of all activities on behalf of the Consortium members. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Raw Materials Supply Group#E01353 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=1353 #Not a member #C#Working Group "Defining Critical Raw Materials"
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Policy implementations and public relations: see above.
Events: Annual Cobalt Conference (15-16 May 2019, Hong Kong)Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
4 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 proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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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Date 05 Jun 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject The role of cobalt in the clean energy transition DG Energy Attending - Dominique Ristori (Director-General)
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Date 28 May 2019 Location Brussels Subject Chemicals and Cobalt in particular Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Sebastien Paquot (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 May 2019 Location BERL Subject industrial policy, climate and the circular economy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska Portfolio Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 May 2019 Location Brussels Subject Climate action and circular economy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet member)
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