Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Esri, Inc. (Esri)
EU Transparency Register
480127725755-82 First registered on 05 Feb 2017
Goals / Remit
“Esri inspires and enables people to positively impact the future through a deeper, geographic understanding of the changing world around them.”
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically and became the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. Esri software is being used in more than 350.000 organisations worldwide including thousands of local governments, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7.000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping activities and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet/cloud platforms.
In Europe, Esri and its affiliates employ over 2.300 staff. In addition, around 400 European partner organizations (mainly SMEs) provide value added solutions on top of the Esri technology platform. By adding location to their business processes through Esri’s ArcGIS technology, around 100.000 European end-user organizations are reducing risk, improving performance and saving costs up to millions of Euros per annum.Main EU files targeted
• Directives related to the environment (INSPIRE, Flood, etc.)
• PSI Directive
• Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition
Esri submitted a pledge and participated in the launch event on 01 December 2016.
In its pledge Esri has established a “GIS School Program” offering free access to and use of the ArcGIS Online platform, especially for STEM education initially to 300 primary and secondary schools and vocational institutions in 10 EU member states by the end of 2017.
• Eionet:
Esri has a software grant in place for Eionet supporting organizations providing those with perpetual licenses.Address
Head Office
380 New York Street
Redlands, CA 92373-8100
UNITED STATES -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 3 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 11 Feb 2017
Name Start date End Date Mr Massimiliano MAZZER 12 Jul 2018 12 Jul 2019 Complementary Information
The above figures relate to fiscal/calendar year 2016.
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Aart van Wingerden (General Manager Europe)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Aart van Wingerden (General Manager Europe)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
• European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI, http://www.eurogi.org)
• Open Data Institute (ODI, http://www.theodi.org)
• Geographical Information Systems International Group (GISIG, http://www.gigig.eu)
• European Emergency Number Association (EENA, http://www.eena.org)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
In addiditon to the figures mentioned above, Esri has invested in organising and conducting an event entitled “GIS in the European Union – Supporting a Digital Europe” which was held on 10 November 2016 in Brussels.
This event was designed for policy makers and Geographical Information System (GIS) users from across the European Commission, and other EU agencies and bodies. The objective was to share experiences and best practices in applying GIS to, for example, the challenge of building safer and more secure communities across Europe, and transforming Copernicus data into valuable information.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
• European Location Framework (ELF, http://www.elfproject.eu)
Esri has significantly contributed to the ELF project with in-kind contribution totaling 0.5 FTE / EUR 100K p.a.
In addition, Esri had provided a software grant for project partners providing those with perpetual licenses.Other activities
None
Meetings
Meetings
None declared